Aladdin (musical)
Aladdin is a musical based on the Disney film of the same name . Alan Menken composed the music, Howard Ashman , Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin wrote the lyrics. Aladdin premiered in Seattle on July 7, 2011 , and first performed on Broadway on March 20, 2014 at the New Amsterdam Theater . The European premiere took place in December 2015 in the Theater Neue Flora in Hamburg .
action
first act
The young street thief Aladdin is homeless, poor and lives in the fictional Agrabah. Together with his friends Babkak, Omar and Kassar he earns his living by stealing. In the palace of Agrabah the Sultan gives his daughter Jasmin a choice: Either she finds a prince and marries, or he looks for a husband for her. However, Jasmin wants to get married out of true love. Since she has never left the palace, she secretly wants to sneak out of her home and explore the city. The Sultan's Grand Vizier, Jafar, learns of the Sultan's plans and hatches a plan how he can come to the throne himself. Together with his assistant Iago, he has to get a magic lamp out of a cave. However, the two are forbidden to enter the cave, as it can only be entered by a person with a flawless character, the "uncut diamond". It's Aladdin.
Aladdin and Jasmin meet in the bazaar, and the two are blown away by each other. Jasmine accompanies Aladdin to his shelter. There they are caught by the palace guards, however, and Aladdin is to be executed for kidnapping the princess. However, he is rescued by Jafar on the condition that Aladdin fetches the magic lamp from the cave. Aladdin agrees and goes into the cave. There he not only finds the oil lamp, but also Egyptian jade. When he takes it, the cave closes. In his desperation he rubs the lamp and the magical genie appears. Since Aladdin freed Genie, he has three wishes. After Genie has freed Aladdin from the cave, he wishes - for Jasmin - to be a prince.
Second act
Under the name of Prince Ali, he arrives at the palace together with Dschinni, Babkak, Omar and Kassar to ask for the hand of Princess Jasmin. Here Iago shows Aladdin the way to the princess' chambers, although this is forbidden. Prince Ali comes closer to Jasmin and shows her his world. This is how Jasmin finds out that Prince Ali is the boy from the bazaar. But Aladdin is captured by Jafar and ends up in the dungeon with his friends. Aladdin's second wish frees the five.
The sultan gives the blessing for the wedding of Aladdin and Jasmin, but Jafar steals the oil lamp and becomes the new master of the jinnis. With his first wish he captures Jasmine, with his second he claims the sultan's throne. Knowing that a Djinni's capabilities are limited, Aladdin advises Jafar to make himself the most powerful Djinni. He then disappears into an oil lamp that is kept by the Sultan. Jasmin and Aladdin get married and he wishes with his remaining wish that Dschinni is released from his duties as a lamp spirit and is thus free. Iago is thrown in prison and Babkak, Omar and Kassar become royal advisers.
Track list
English (original)
Three songs that were taken out of the 1992 film in the course of production after Howard Ashan's death were given a place in the stage musical again. Four more were written in addition. All compositions are by Alan Menken, the songwriters are in square brackets after the respective title.
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[A] Tim Rice • [B] Howard Ashman • [C] Chad Beguelin
* This song was cut from the film and reintegrated for the musical.
** This song was written especially for the stage musical.
*** This song contains an addition to Ashman's text, which was originally written for the 1992 film in response to a controversy aroused therein.
German
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Germany
Premiere cast Hamburg (2015) | Premiere cast Stuttgart (2019) | |
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Aladdin | Richard-Salvador Wolff | Philipp Buettner |
jasmine | Myrthes Monteiro | Nienke Latten |
Djinni | Enrico De Pieri | Maximilian Mann |
Jafar | Ethan Freeman | Paolo Bianca |
sultan | Claus Dam | |
Iago | Eric Minsk | |
Omar | Pedro Reichert | Robin Cadet |
Babkak | Stefan Tolnai | Rafael van der Maarel |
Cashier | Philipp Hägeli | Nicolas Christahl |
International
Character | Original Broadway cast | Original Tokyo cast | Original London cast | Original Australian cast |
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Aladdin | Adam Jacobs | Yuichihiro Hyakuya | Dean-John Wilson | Ainsley Melham |
jasmine | Courtney Reed | Mizue Okamoto | Jade Ewen | Arielle Jacobs |
Djinni | James Monroe Iglehart | Hisashi Takiyama | Trevor Dion Nicholas | Michael James Scott |
Jafa | Jonathan Freeman | Kimizuki Makino | Don Gallagher | Adam Murphy |
sultan | Clifton Davis | Yoishihiro Ishinami | Irvine Iqbal | George Henare |
Iago | Don Darryl Rivera | Ryota Sakai | Peter Howe | Ajin Abella |
Omar | Jonathan Schwartz | Yoichiro Saito | Rachid Sabitri | Robert Tripolino |
Babkak | Brian Gonzales | Hidenori Shirase | Nathan Amzi | Troy Sussman |
Kassim | Brandon O'Neill | Kenji Nishio | Stephen Rahman-Hughes | Adam Jon Fiorentino |
Performances
country | Performance location | premiere | Kidney | theatre |
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United States | Broadway | March 20, 2014 | open | New Amsterdam Theater |
tour | April 11, 2017 | open | ||
Japan | Tokyo | May 20, 2015 | open | Dentsu Shiki Theater |
Germany | Hamburg | December 6, 2015 | 3rd February 2019 | New flora |
Stuttgart | March 21, 2019 | open | Apollo theater | |
United Kingdom | London | June 15, 2016 | August 24, 2019 | Prince Edward Theater |
Australia | tour | 11th August 2016 | 1st September 2019 |
Awards
The Hamburg production of the musical won a prize at the Live Entertainment Award 2016 (LEA) in the “Show of the Year” category. The Broadway musical was nominated for several Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards in 2014, among others , and won one award each.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gregory Miller: Aladdin gets big changes for Broadway debut . New York Post. March 9, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2016.