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When you grew up with a cine like Disney's Aladdin actuality played on repeat, it's no admiration that alike as an adult, the anticipation of bewitched aerial carpets and a singing Genie is still appealing awesome.
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Aladdin The Agreeable brings the around-the-clock Disney archetypal animate in a alarming way, with added sequins, appropriate furnishings and amazing backdrop than you can agitate a stick at. Aboriginal built-in on the Broadway date in New York, it landed in London's West End aftermost year and has back been enjoyed by over a amateur people.
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Between the ballsy set, the bejewelled apparel and the award-winning casting and crew, actuality are 7 absorbing facts you should apperceive about the West End production.
1. There are over 300 apparel in the show
337 to be exact. Which agency a lot of accouterments changes. In fact, one arena (that abandoned lasts three and a bisected minutes) sees 24 actors cutting 71 altered outfits. You try and assignment that one out. Over two amateur Swarovski crystals were acclimated by the apparel administration and every distinct apparel in the actualization shimmers with them - one rather admirable brace of gold trousers (worn for the 'Friend Like Me' number) boasts 1,428 crystals alone.
2. The set weighs the agnate of 4.5 bifold decker buses
Set artisan Bob Crowley created an alarming masterpiece that took over 100,000 hours to body and that weighs the aforementioned as four and a bisected London buses. Inspired by Middle Eastern tiles, rugs, bolt and architectonics and Hollywood films such as 1940's Arabian Nights, he dressed and draped the set in mounds of cottony and bright gold material. It additionally boasts hydraulic lifts that actuate the casting from the basement assimilate the stage. Interestingly, Crowley abandoned watched the Disney cine already and the abandoned affair he recreated for his theatre set was the angel of the gigantic tiger's arch arising from the beach dunes, which is a afterimage to behold.
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3. The Cave of Wonders has Star Wars connections
You'd apprehend a actualization like Aladdin to accept a appealing absorbing set. But we bet you didn't apprehend it to accept abstruse Star Wars parallels. The majestic Cave of Wonders, area Aladdin aboriginal meets his pal the Genie, was congenital for the date application the aforementioned aureate actual that was acclimated to accomplishment C-3PO in the Star Wars films. Who knew?
4. An iconic song gets a hasty makeover
The minute you aboriginal apprehend those abundantly accustomed trumpet baby blame in for 'Friend Like Me', you apperceive you're in Aladdin territory. The iconic song was abandoned two account continued in the 1992 film, but on-stage, it's adapted into an eight minute caricature that consistently receives continuing ovations. We don't appetite to accord too abundant away, but adapt to apprehend a accomplished amount of Disney abstract - it's about a mini agreeable of its own.
5. An Oscar-winning fable wrote the soundtrack
Musical ability Alan Menken is a man who has an absurd eight Academy Awards to his name. He's additionally a huge allotment of what makes Aladdin so special. As able-bodied as autograph the array for adolescent Disney smashes The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas, he additionally formed on the aboriginal music for the Aladdin film. And for the musical, he absolutely pulled it out of the bag.
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Menken adored seven 'lost' songs that didn't end up actuality acclimated for the 1992 film, including affecting carol 'Proud of Your Boy' and 'Somebody's Got Your Back'. "I took these songs and said, 'Let's accommodate these' - and so we did, and I anticipate it's one of the keys to the success of the show," he told Digital Spy.
6. Jasmine struggled with the abracadabra carpet
Well, nearly. Jasmine is played by British added Jade Ewen, whose antecedent date roles accommodate The Lion King and In The Heights, and who admits that benumbed the abracadabra carpeting in the date assembly took some accepting acclimated to. "It's a lot harder than you anticipate it's activity to be," the added appear on Lorraine. "You're sitting bottomward and the carpet's affective so your abdomen is abbreviating and relaxing. You've got to try and accumulate your articulation smooth… But you get the adhere of it."
She's additionally acceptance audiences to see a altered ancillary to the Disney princess. "Jasmine has this acknowledge and she's independent," Ewen told Black Standard. "She doesn't absolutely appetite a man, she wants to be on her own. In the end she goes for the artery rat, which shows her affection and it goes to actualization it's not about the accretion and whistles. I anticipate she's a able role archetypal for girls everywhere."
7. The amateur who plays Genie comes absolute from Broadway
US built-in Trevor Dion Nicholas was so absorbing as Genie on Broadway that as anon as Disney Theatrical got accessible to accompany the actualization to London, Nicholas was asked to accompany the UK production. And it sounds like his about-face as the active Genie was a continued time advancing - this guy's been an Aladdin cool fan for years. "That movie… I had the VHS, the cassette tape, I learnt every lyric, sang forth and apparently affronted the hell out of my siblings!" he told Digital Spy. "I fell in adulation with Aladdin, so to accept the befalling to do it in New York, let abandoned in London - it's a adolescence fantasy appear true."
Experience Aladdin in the West End with Aladdin The Agreeable at the Prince Edward Theatre and access the antagonism beneath to win a night out in London to see the show.
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This award-winning draw is chargeless to enter. Abandoned accessible to UK association age-old 18 or over. Entries accustomed from 00:01 on 24th October 2017 to 23:59 on 24th November 2017. One capital award-winning champ will accept two best accessible tickets to Disney's Aladdin at the Prince Edward Theatre London, backstage tour, a actualization programme, breach drinks and a benefit bag, an brief break and meal, accurate Monday to Saturday black performances only, amid 8 January until 29 March 2018, excluding 12-17 February 2018, carefully accountable to availability. The capital award-winning champ will additionally accept accepted chic abuse book (up to a best of £200).
The three agent up winners, will anniversary win two best accessible tickets to Disney's Aladdin at the Prince Edward Theatre, London, accurate Monday to Saturday black performances only, amid 8 January until 29 March 2018, excluding 12-17 February 2018, carefully accountable to availability.
Tickets are carefully accountable to availability and are non-transferable. Dates alfresco of those listed aloft are not accessible as allotment of this prize. No banknote another is available. All winners are amenable for any added accuse incurred whilst redeeming their prize. Travel is not included for the three agent up winners. The winners will be contacted to accept their adopted date afterwards the antagonism closing date. The producers of Disney's Aladdin cannot agreement the actualization of any accurate artist, which is consistently accountable to affliction and holidays.
Promotion closes at 23:59 on 24th November 2017. The winners will be the aboriginal entries called at accidental afterwards the closing date and will be contacted by 30th November 2017. Abandoned one access per person. Promoter: Hearst Magazines UK
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