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Disney's Aladdin, the new musical comedy based on the Academy Award-winning animated film, opened to critical acclaim on March 20th, 2014 at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre. Today, the production is making three national television debuts on the ABC Television Network:
On this morning's "Good Morning America" the talented cast performed "Arabian Nights," broadcast live from the stage of the New Amsterdam Theatre. Check out the energetic performance below!
The fun continued on this morning's "The View" with a performance of "Prince Ali" from the historic theatre.
Watch it here!
Finally, "Nightline" caps off the day with exclusive interviews by Elizabeth Vargas, featuring the shows director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw and stars Adam Jacobs, James Monroe Iglehart, Courtney Reed and Jonathan Freeman.
Disney's Aladdin, the new musical comedy based on the Academy Award®-winning animated film, opened to critical acclaim on March 20th, 2014 at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre.
Produced by
Disney Theatrical Productions,
Aladdin features music by Tony Award® and eight-time Oscar® winner
Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Newsies, Sister Act), lyrics by two-time Oscar winner
Howard Ashman (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid), three-time Tony Award and three-time Oscar winner
Tim Rice (Evita, Aida) and two-time Tony Award nominee
Chad Beguelin (The Wedding Singer), with a book by Beguelin, and is directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner
Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon). This new production features a full score, including the Oscar and Grammy® winning hit "A Whole New World," and four other cherished songs from the film and multi Grammy-winning original motion picture soundtrack.
Aladdin stars
Adam Jacobs (Les Miserables, The Lion King) in the title role,
Courtney Reed (In the Heights, Mamma Mia) as Jasmine,
James Monroe Iglehart (Memphis, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) as Genie, and, as Jafar, Tony Award nominee
Jonathan Freeman (Mary Poppins, The Producers, She Loves Me) brings to the stage the role he indelibly created in the animated film. The show also stars
Brian Gonzales,
Brandon O'Neill and
Jonathan Schwartz as
Aladdin's sidekicks Babkak, Kassim and Omar,
Clifton Davis as Sultan and
Don Darryl Rivera as Iago.
The Emmy® Award-winning "GMA," featuring the anchor team of Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Lara Spencer, Amy Robach and Ginger Zee airs live Monday-Friday (7:00-9:00 a.m., ET) on ABC.
"The View," a live, one-hour daily talk show from
ABC (11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, ET), features hosts
Barbara Walters,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Sherri Shepherd and
Jenny McCarthy.
ABC News' "Nightline" airs weeknights from 12:35-1:00 a.m., ET and is anchored by Dan Harris, Dan Abrams, and
Juju Chang.