An excited crowd gathered at the Sands Theatre at Marina Bay
Sands on 25 Jul to attend the gala opening of Aladdin the musical, the only
performing stop in Asia. Still running
in both Broadway and West End, Singapore audience was fortunate to catch a recent
production performing in Singapore
Most people would be familiar with the story, or through the
1992 animated musical movie featuring the voice of Robin Williams’ voice as the
Genie. And of course we have the 2019
movie starring Will Smith. Thus, what
could the stage version offer to the live audience?
This production managed to strike a balance between catering to the family audience and to the young at heart. Some slapstick scenes were aimed at the children, which drew laughter from the young ones.
Graeme Isaako and Shubshri Kandiah have
good chemistry as Aladdin and Jasmine, and both have good singing voice. A lot of applause was given to the carpet
flying scene where they delivered the song “A Whole New World”.
