The Princess’s father, who is the King (or Sultan) of Agrabah, does not approve of the match. Set in the mystical town of Agrabah in ancient Persia, the penniless main character Aladdin meets the beautiful princess, Princess Jasmine, and the two fall madly in love with each other.
The U.S national tour started in 2017 and has held performances all around the country in various cities that have included Chicago, St Louis, Memphis, Austin, Cleveland and many others. Those Countries include Germany, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Australia, England and New Zealand. Since Aladdin the musical’s Broadway debut in 2014, the production has been performed in seven other countries besides the United States.
The other main lyricist for the show, Rice is one out of a handful of talented creative professionals who are part of the esteemed EGOT award winning (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) club. Ashman passed away in early 1991 and after his death he received a Grammy, a Tony and an Oscar Award for his creativity in his theatrical work. Ashman was a talented lyricist who worked on many other Disney shows as well as Aladdin. Beguelin also worked on lyrics for the show, along with Broadway legends Tim Rice and Howard Ashman. The book for the show was written and adapted by Chad Beguelin who is a six time Tony Award nominee.
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In a surprise turnaround, the movie became very popular, very quickly and ultimately made $504 Million for Walt Disney Studios as well as being the most successful movie of 1992.įollowing the success of the 1992 movie, the Broadway show for Aladdin would follow in 2014 and went on to receive four Tony Award nominations, but won just one for “Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical”. When Disney took the reins of Aladdin and turned the classic story into the animated movie, it was not expected to amount to much at the box office, so Disney did not allocate a large marketing budget to the movie as they spent very little developing the movie in the first place. This action means that they do not own the rights to the story, which reduces their ability to monetize the brand as they would do on other Disney assets like The Lion King or The Incredibles, which they own outright. In 1992, and in a predictable move for Disney, they took the public domain fable of Aladdin and reworked the story for the animated movie. Aladdin was also turned into a live-action movie in 2019 that starred Will Smith, Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott and received somewhat middling reviews. A Broadway version based on this movie would come to the Great White Way in 2014 and made stars out of its lead performers. In 1992 Disney took the idea and developed their own animated film, Aladdin, which was directed by Ron Clements and used voices from Scott Weinger, Robin Williams and Linda Larkin. In 1952 the story became a movie entitled Aladdin and His Lamp that was directed by Lew Landers and starred Johnny Sands and Patricia Medina in the leading roles. The story of Aladdin was later added to The Arabian Nights story collection in the early 18th century by the french writer, Antoine Galland and the fable has since been developed over time. Aladdin began as an ancient folk tale that was passed down through the generations by Syrian storytellers.