Aladdin the Musical @ Sunway Lagoon Amphitheatre

A big thank you to All Malaysian Bloggers Project for the two wonderful blue zone (RM200 each) passes to Aladdin the Musical Gala Premiere night on the 25th December 2011. This would be my first ever West End Production musical show and I was pretty excited even before the show.

[Various spoilers ahead. Till the end :)]

It was a tale about a street kid called Aladdin who happen to meet Princess Jasmine one day and fell in loved with her. The Sultan, being the king did not want his daughter mixing with a mere street person, and so the evil Jaafar and the Sultan begun plotting against Aladdin.

Little did the Sultan know that Jaafar had a ulterior motive behind him. He intended Aladdin to retrieve the old lamp in the cave. Bla..bla..bla..Aladdin was trap in the cave and he called upon the Ginie who made a smokin' cool appearance - a 21st century pop / hip-hop / rock music dance one of them being non-other than Lady Gaga's song.

And oh, did I mention about the fairy from the Sultan's ring that have this really squeeky voice? And apparently, as I've heard from Choulyew, it's her actual voice. Wonder how she does it...

Found the musical quite entertaining although, it was quite rush on the second half of the show. There were life animals being used in some of the scenes - chickens and goats. At some point of the time, there were chicken on the lose on the stage and the goats did not want to move. Haha! There was no monkey though. I think it would have been very difficult to bring a monkey into play cause if it was not properly handled, there might just be a monkey running on rampant in the amphitheatre. lol

Fans of Bruno Mars? There were several songs being played on stage (e.g. Marry You and Billionaire). On how the song billionaire came about, it was seriously spot on:

Ginie: Aladdin, what do you want to be?
Aladdin: I wanna... ♫ be a billionaire.. ♫ *sings the song*

Like who wouldn't want that right? lol

From where I was sitting, couldn't really get to take a good picture because my camera lens wasn't a good one that could capture far-off pictures. So yeah, have got to make do with what I have and hence, the pictures as seen in this post. Quite far, cannot see much *potong stim*

They even made the "cave" scene where Aladdin goes into the cave to retrieve the old lamp behind the veil to make it look like there's two scene playing on one stage. Pretty cool.

Though, only one of the Aladdin song were sang throughout the whole play: A Whole New World. It was really good and enjoyable to hear the classic Disney Aladdin song being played on stage. I was actually looking forward to more of it :(

Yup, there was also the flying carpet! But the lining carrying the carpet could be seen very visibly. It's cool though to see that they have brought the carpet into play. It flew across Kuala Lumpur City Center and Sunway Lagoon. lol. Talking about promotional methods huh?

Jaafar's costume was so "kua-cheong" in black and red. His headgear is so big that it's amazing how the thing did not fall at any point of the show. Haha.

The audience that night. Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah was there too for the opening gala.

Ms.Universe Malaysia 2011 was there too! So tall, so short. Two head taller than me! o__o

Since it was the opening night, they allowed the guests to have a shot or two with the casts on stage. We were up there quite late and so, these two casts were the one and only picture that I managed to get a picture with before the crew ushered them backstage.

And this is the very awesome Ginie who played his role very enthusiastically throughout the night! The dance and the moves just made me laugh whenever he comes out of the lamp.

The sound system on the first night were not that great. Couldn't hear what was being said half of the time. It was an open air stage, so naturally, sound is not confined in one area alone. The management took note on the issue after going around asking feedbacks from the audience. Heard that the sound system is way better on the later shows. A good improvement, and I'm glad that something was done to ratify the problem.

All in all, it was a good play for the exception on the seemingly 'rushed' scenes through the second half of the show. Would have also been happier if two or three more classic Disney Aladdin songs were played too.

[Quote] Aladdin the Musical will be playing at Amphitheatre @ Sunway Lagoon from November 25th 2011 to January 2nd 2012. The musical will show once a day, from Sunway to Friday at 8.00pm (no show on Tuesdays), and twice on Saturdays at 7:15pm and 9:15pm with extra shows on 25th December 2011 (Sunday) and 1st January 2012 (Sunday) at 7:15pm and 9:15pm

More info on how you can get your tickets:
Sunway Lagoon Malaysia Facebook Page
Sunway Lagoon Website

Two short video taken with my cell phone. A snippet on what you'll be seeing at the Musical. :)