On my recent trip to New York, seeing a Broadway show wasn’t at the top of my bucket list of things to do. I love going to the West End in London, but for the price of tickets in New York, there were so many other things I would rather do.
When we were visiting Times Square we decided why not just see if we could get some cheap on the day tickets, we all wanted to see something that we wouldn’t get to see in London and being a Disney-obsessed family, Aladdin was the obvious choice!
We managed to get some amazing seats, four rows back from the front and all for a really reasonable price. I literally couldn’t wait for the evening to come.
Traffic in New York is horrendous, we learnt this the hard way. After waiting for 20 minutes to get a taxi to stop for us, we sat in so much traffic towards Times Square, we ended up getting out of the taxi about 5 minutes away from the theatre and ran across Times Square! We were 15 minutes late to the performance, we missed two songs, but the show was still amazing!
During the interval we realised that the actor playing Jafar, Jonathan Freeman, actually voiced him in the Disney movie! James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the Genie really stole the show! I came away from the show aching from laughing so much and obviously had that happy glow that any Disney film or show gives you!
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