⭐ GAVIN ADAMS, YEUKAYI USHE, DESMONDA CATHABEL & MORE ANNOUNCED FOR UK & IRELAND TOUR OF DISNEY’S ALADDIN ⭐
Casting has been announced for the highly anticipated UK & Ireland tour of DISNEY’S ALADDIN.
Starring recent Royal Academy of Music graduate Gavin Adams as Aladdin, who will be making his professional debut in the title role, and Yeukayi Ushe as Genie.
Desmonda Cathabel will star as Jasmine, when the show opens in Edinburgh, with casting for the role in future venues to be announced in due course.
They are joined by Adam Strong as Jafar, Angelo Paragoso as Iago, Jo Servi as Sultan, Nay-Nay as Babkak, Adam Taylor as Omar, Nelson Bettencourt as Kassim, with Damien Winchester as Standby Genie/Babkak/Sultan and Juan Jackson as Standby Jafar/Genie/Sultan.
Featuring Hannah Amin, Dammi Aregbeshola, Rico Bakker, Daisy Barnett, Sarah Benbelaid, Erin Gisele Chapman, Tau-En Chien, Zac Frieze, Juan Jackson, James Lim, Harriet Millier, Luchia Moss, Aaron Elijah Patel, Abbie Platts, Joseph Poulton, Olivier Scheers, Kerry Spark and Ricardo Spriggs.
The UK & Ireland launches from Autumn 2023, opening at the Edinburgh Playhouse, from 24th October – 19th November 2023.
Further dates & venues here – aladdinthemusical.co.uk/
Adapted from Disney’s 1992 animated film and centuries-old folktales including “One Thousand and One Nights”, this smash-hit musical is brought to theatrical life in a unique and dazzling way.
The show continues its record-breaking run on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, and since opening there in March 2014, nine subsequent productions have launched around the world, including its 2016 West End premiere at the Prince Edward Theatre, London where the show ran until August 2019.
DISNEY’S ALADDIN is directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, featuring design by Bob Crowley, lighting design by Natasha Katz, costume design by Gregg Barnes and sound design by Ken Travis.
The production team also includes illusion designers Jim Steinmeyer and Rob Lake, hair designer Josh Marquette and makeup designer Milagros Medina-Cerdeira. The music team is headed by music supervisor and music director Michael Kosarin, who also created the vocal and incidental music arrangements, joined by orchestrator Danny Troob and dance music arranger Glen Kelly. Ben Clare is the associate director, Kyle Seeley is the dance supervisor, Jason Trubitt is the production supervisor and Myriah Bash is the US general manager. Casting is by Jill Green CDG.
DISNEY’S ALADDIN features the timeless songs from the animated film, as well as new music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin, with a book by Beguelin.
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Tickets & more info – https://www.aladdinthemusical.co.uk/
