NEW YORK, March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The cast of
the new Broadway smash, Disney's Aladdin is
currently in the studio laying down tracks for the
Original Cast Recording of the show, to be released by Walt
Disney Records digitally on Tuesday, May
27th. The physical album is set for release on
Tuesday, June 17th and will also be available for
purchase in-theater. The Aladdin Original Broadway Cast
Recording will be produced by Alan
Menken, Michael Kosarin,
Frank Filipetti and Chris Montan and executive produced by
Kurt Deutsch.
Produced by Disney Theatrical
Productions, Aladdin features music by Tony
Award® and eight-time Oscar® winner Alan
Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Newsies, Sister Act),
lyrics by two-time Oscar winner Howard
Ashman (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid),
three-time Tony Award and three-time Oscar winner Tim Rice (Evita, Aida) and two-time Tony
Award nominee Chad Beguelin (The
Wedding Singer), with a book by Beguelin, and is directed and
choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey
Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon). This new
production features a full score, including the Oscar and
Grammy® winning hit "A Whole New World," and four other
cherished songs from the film and multi Grammy-winning original
motion picture soundtrack. The cast album also
includes four Menken/Beguelin songs written especially
for the stage and three Menken/Ashman songs that were cut
from the original film, plus exclusive bonus content
created especially for the album.
Disney's Aladdin, the new musical comedy
based on the Academy Award®-winning animated film, opened to
critical acclaim on March
20th, 2014 at Broadway's New Amsterdam
Theatre. USA Today raves, "Pure
GENIE-US! Aladdin delivers a rush that will
surprise you." The Associated Press exclaims,
"Disney hits magic again…a wonder to behold!" while The New
York Times hails the show as "Fabulous… Extravagant!" and
the Daily News declares, "Seriously, it's
amazing!"
Aladdin stars Adam Jacobs (Les Miserables, The
Lion King) in the title role, Courtney
Reed (In the Heights, Mamma Mia) as Jasmine,
James Monroe Iglehart
(Memphis, The
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee) as Genie, and, as Jafar, Tony Award nominee Jonathan Freeman (Mary Poppins, The
Producers, She Loves Me) brings to the stage the
role he indelibly created in the animated film. The show also
stars Brian Gonzales, Brandon O'Neill and Jonathan Schwartz as Aladdin's sidekicks Babkak,
Kassim and Omar, Clifton Davis as
Sultan and Don Darryl Rivera as
Iago.
The Aladdin Original Broadway Cast Recording is
available in theater and for pre-order
at http://www.aladdinthemusicalstore.com and Amazon.com.
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AladdinTheMusical.com. Connect with Aladdin on
Facebook.com/Aladdin and Twitter.com/Aladdin.
PRESS CONTACTS:
For Walt Disney
Records:
Maria
Kleinman, maria.kleinman@disney.com
For Aladdin on Broadway:
Dennis Crowley,
dennis.m.crowley@disney.com
Michael Strassheim,
michael.strassheim@disney.com
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