Select Seating For ALADDIN World Premiere Now Available

Select seating for the world premiere musical stage production of Disney's classic animated film ALADDIN is now being offered byway of special subscription packages for the tuner, with 20% discounted seats as well as early bird discounts available through June 30.

The official synopsis of ALADDIN is as follows: "In an exotic, faraway land, one man's life is about to change with the lucky rub of an ancient lamp-and you're invited to join the magic carpet ride. Welcome to ALADDIN, Disney's new Broadway-bound musical, adapted from the hit film and featuring some of the best-loved music by Academy and Tony Award-winning composer Alan Menken and lyricists Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin, with a book by Beguelin. Brought to you by the producer of Toronto's record-breaking hits The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, ALADDIN will be directed and choreographed by Tony -winner Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon) and will feature the award-winning and acclaimed design team of Bob Crowley (sets), Gregg Barnes (costumes) and Natasha Katz (lights), with illusions by Jim Steinmeyer. With its timeless story, extravagant sets and costumes and a host of memorable characters and songs, ALADDIN will transport you to a place you only know in your dreams. Go ahead, make a wish. And discover a whole new world, in a whole new way... at ALADDIN."

I originally broke the news of the Broadway return of ALADDIN in my InDepth InterView with multi-Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken in 2010. Portions of the conversation follow below:

"PC: I was just talking to Don Hahn about all the great cut songs you wrote with Howard for ALADDIN. Could you tell me about those?

AM: We're getting them back!

PC: How so?

AM: We're doing a stage musical of ALADDIN and all those songs are going to be in it.

PC: How wonderful! Tell me everything! Who's doing the adaptation with you?

AM: Chad Beguelin wrote the book. He did a fantastic job. He and I also wrote a new song that will be going in, along with a lot of the cut Howard Ashman songs and some of the cut Tim Rice songs, and a song that I wrote music and lyrics for that was in the theatrical adaptation at California Adventure.

PC: That's quite a team, then - you, Ashman, Rice, Beguelin! Will it be substantially different from the film?

AM: It has more of the feeling of a Hope & Crosby road picture - which is what Howard and I originally wanted for the musical. We are going to try it out, hopefully, next summer.

PC: Do you have a design team in place yet? It will be especially important for a stage ALADDIN, I would think.

AM: No, not yet.

PC: It has such great possibilities. It should be good!

AM: Let's hope so! Knock on wood. You never know, you never know."

Check out the entire InDepth InterView: Alan Menken here

For more information on tickets, visit the official site here.

Also, visit the official ALADDIN On Broadway site here.

ALADDIN plays November 1, 2013, through January 5, 2014 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto, Canada.