Aladdin 2017 Tour

Looks like Disney's Aladdin will be launching its national tour next year! Chicago seems to be the origin of the tour starting on 4/11/17-7/2/17 @ The Cadillac Palace Theatre. In the Loop! I would love to see a revised book for the tour that maybe cuts back on the Babkok/Kassim/Omar songs/scenes, and possibly cuts some of the new songs that bog down the plot and slow the action of the show. It will be interesting to see how they tour the cave of wonders, magic carpet, and genie elevator for "Friend Like Me..."

http://broadwayinchicago.com/show/disneys-aladdin/

Watching "Friend Like Me" with the Genie running in from the wings would not work. But, what other way is there on tour?

Is the magic carpet sequence fairly easy to recreate in theatres across America, or will they go the route of the Seattle tryout and just have Aladdin & Jasmine sing on a floating mattress surrounded by fog?

Adam Jacobs will be leading the tour...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-Adam-Jacobs-to-Lead-the-North-American-Tour-of-Disneys-ALADDIN-20170113

YES! Now, I really need to see it again. It would be amazing if James tours too

AEA AGMA SM said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Why edit something that's a hit?"

The same reason that lots of shows will go back and make cuts and changes once they are open. Tighten the run time, reduce costs, cut something that audiences never really responded to, the list goes on. "

Exactly. The time distance between the production allows the creative team to see the material with a new perspective, and they will have had the luxury of time to see what changes can be made. Les Miz was trimmed down to under 3 hours, but that took over a decade to happen. Miss Saigon had three different endings, implemented with each of the first new productions. Phantom had a few lyric and pacing changes. And those were megahits of the Hamilton variety (in their day). 

Call_me_jorge said: "The first national tour of wicked had elphaba come out of a trap door for the finale."

Not at every stop she didn't. It depended on the venue.

I really hope whatever they do to make Friend Like Me work on tour is magical and brilliant. 

They could build tall platforms into the cave set so he can spin out of a trapdoor from those? Might be a bit obvious though. 

 ^ do you know what's different on tour in Australia? 

http://magazine.shnsf.com/index.php/breaking/bay-area-native-and-original-aladdin-adam-jacobs-to-headline-national-tour-coming-to-san-francisco/

I didn't know Adam was a local boy, from Half Moon Bay, a town I love. Ok, I love the entire Pacific coastline in California, but HMB is a sleepy little town with my favorite furniture store: http://www.myhandmadehome.com/

His Wikipedia page says he was in SF Opera's "Harvey Milk," so I must have seen him on stage as Young Harvey. This was the season the War Memorial was being renovated so the Opera performed at the Orpheum Theater and Bill Graham Auditorium. Long time ago. 

Oh yeah, and those abs!! :) 

Good for Adam.

^I'm a little disappointed, but damn he's going to be perfection in Hamilton. Seriously can't happen to a more deserving and talented guy.

Is it someone who has performed/covered the role before or are they new to the show?