This production of Aladdin is the poster child for Broadway's Disneyfication, but it's still crazy entertaining.
Marcus Martin as the Genie with members of the ensemble in the North American tour of Disney’s Aladdin
This show, like the others of its ilk, also boasts of supersaturated stagecraft, including larger-than-life Vegas-style production numbers that are so visually stunning that they leave the children in attendance looking shell-shocked by evening’s end, as numbed by the late hour as the full-frontal assault of musical theatre they’ve just encountered.
It’s also a lot to perform and, quite frankly, the very busy ensemble seemed a bit shell-shocked themselves upon taking the Bass Center Hall stage after four months on the road with short stays in lots of cities and the long travel in between. Out of the gate, their performances were lackluster and rote. So was the early work turned in by Colt Prattes, Ben Chavez, and Jake Letts, who play Aladdin’s buddies and provide much of the comedy throughout the show.
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