Posted by Calluna on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 9:56 AM

Two anonymous Broadway theater executives told the New York Times that the Mary Poppins musical in the New Amsterdam Theatre will be closing March 3rd so that it can be renovated before the Aladdin show moves there:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/mary-poppins-to-fly-off-as-aladdin-lands-on-broadway/

This is still just a rumor, and even if it is true we don't know how long the renovations will take.

(This probably neither here nor there, but on the New Amsterdam Theatre's website you can still buy Mary Poppins tickets until August 2013.)

Big thank you to Chris for the tip!

[b]Edit 7/9:[/url] MaryPoppins.com confirms the March 3rd end date for that show, doesn't mention anything about Aladdin.

Posted by Calluna on Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 9:13 AM

I've fixed the problem that was preventing posting on the forum and it is now working again. I'm so sorry for the long downtime; I really don't have a good excuse for it. Thanks everyone for being patient with me...

In the next few days I will be updating the forum to a newer version to make it more secure and reduce spamming, so if it is suddenly unavailable again or looks different, that will be why. I'm also considering possibly moving the forum to its own separate server host so I won't need to keep up with code updates or worry about hackers taking down the whole site through the forum. (I guess partly this will depend on how well this code update goes, LOL) What do you guys think about this?

Posted by AladdinsGenie on Monday, August 13, 2012 at 9:59 PM

Last night, Alan Menken held an intimate performance as part of the ‘Destination D’ event at the Disneyland Resort, held by Disney D23, the official fan club of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS). After wowing the attending crowd with music from decades of his Tony, Grammy and Oscar-winning career (he holds the record for having the most Oscars (living)), he closed the show with ‘Proud of Your Boy,’ a song that was intended for the original 1992 film, but was cut due to story changes.

It was when introducing the song that Menken mentioned the musical is currently being tweaked for a Broadway run, according to reports from attendees. A new staged version of the musical was produced by Disney Theatrical and premiered at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle last year, but no aspirations for Broadway were anywhere to be found — at best, a national tour; at worst, licensing to regional theater. Howard Ashman’s sister, Sarah, wrote about the musical on her tribute blog, Part Of Your World, and some of the changes that were incorporated into it that deviate it from the beloved animated film. In addition to ‘Proud of Your Boy,’ three other songs that were initially cut have been reinstated along: Call Me A Princess; High Adventure; and Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim, which brings along the three non-Aladdin characters with it.

After a brief run at The Muny in July, the musical is now in production at the Tuacahn Amphitheatre in Utah through mid-October and has managed to incorporate the use of 3D glasses for the Cave of Wonders and Genie’s ‘Friend Like Me’ song, courtesy of former Walt Disney Imagineer Geoff Puckett, according to the fan-based Aladdin Musical blog.

Still, prior to last night, there wasn’t so much as an inkling that it would soon find itself on the Great White Way. Actually, an inkling may in fact have been all there was, as a thread on Broadway World points to a cryptic message at the end of a recent video update from 5th Avenue Theatre.

I'd say "I'm so happy I could die", but then I'd miss out on seeing this go to Broadway. Talk about unfortunate

Posted by AladdinsGenie on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 2:07 AM

I won't say who for those avoiding spoilers, but if you'd like to find out, click here and read through the article!

Posted by AladdinsGenie on Friday, May 18, 2012 at 2:26 AM

The Genie, along with Aladdin and Jasmine from the Disney film "Aladdin" took more than 550,000 Legos and 32,283 hours for the model builders to build. They fly above visitors inside the Lego Imagination Center at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, CA.

More lego structures found in and around the complex can be found here: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/store-354548-lego-santoro.html