TRIP- ALADDIN

Tuesday 20th March
Today we was lucky enough to be taken on a trip to see Disney's Aladdin at the prince Edward theatre. I thought the show as a whole was brilliant and really portrayed the magic of the original story. However not flawless. The set design was amazing from extremely detailed pattered curtain at the beginning to the revolving huts to the magic carpet and LED starry night curtain and secret trap doors. The music from the live orchestra added to the atmosphere and made the theatre more alive. The dancing wasn't beautifully technical as such but worked very well with the space of the stage and fitted to the Arabian theme. The actor that played Aladdin really struggled to place his accent and fell somewhere between american, British and some kind of Italian or Spanish, it was confusing. The spot light was awful and very shaky and struggled to light the actor from head to toe. The costumes where amazing, they where colorful and revealing but correctly appropriate for the time period and setting. The costumes where fabulously glamorous and there was one point before the very end where the villain Jafar changed costume on stage in a split second it was bewildering. There was lots of pyrotechnics and this added to the magic of the show they also dropped confetti on the audience however we didn't get any because we was sat on the upper circle.  Overall i would rate this show a 7/10.

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