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This morning, ABC's Good Morning America gave viewers an inside look at Disney's 'Aladdin' on Broadway. Check out the clip below and click here to watch the cast perform 'Arabian Nights' live this morning on ABC!
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.