Just thought that I would record some random stuff I remember seeing when I saw Aladdin on Broadway since a few people have been curious.

- I saw this musical back in early December of 2015. It was the original cast, minus Adam Jacobs since it was his day off. An understudy filled in for him that day, and he was absolutely wonderful.

- Upon walking into the theatre, there's a giant poster with the full cast list. At the bottom, there's a place where it informs you if there's an understudy that performance. I went to go see the show with my drama class, including our teacher, who was supposed to see the show the summer before but couldn't because she tripped and fell and broke her leg on her way to the theatre. So she had been looking forward to this for a very long time. I was leading our group in with her at the rear, and when I saw that sign, I called back, "There's an understudy today!" From the back of our group, I heard an enraged "WHAT?!" But it was all good because she didn't care if there was an Aladdin understudy, she just wanted to see James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie.

- Genie: And you know what Agrabah's famous for? This magical lamp- *pulls out a tiny Statue of Liberty* Whoops! Sorry about that folks, I was doing some touring before the show. *puts statue back in cloak, pulls out lamp* This magical lamp!

- Okay so the real MVP of this musical is Marisha Wallace. She was a member of the ensemble, but she also played the Fortune Teller, one of Jasmine's attendants, and she had so many awesome solos, such as "In that magical place, in that mystical land, there's a Genie inside every door", "Still I think he's rather tasty!", and "He's got 75 golden camels, purple peacocks he's got 53!" She was also a Babkak understudy. Seriously, you go girl.

- In between "Arabian Nights" and "One Jump", the Genie tells the audience that he'll see them later before exiting the stage.

- Babkak after "One Jump": And what was that about needing a friend or two? You kind of have friends, three of them, to be exact.

- "These Palace Walls" take place in Jasmine's chambers, which is also where the scenes before and after "A Whole New World" take place. There's a giant cage with a gorgeous peacock inside during "These Palace Walls", but it disappears for the rest of the show.

- Jafar multiple times throughout the show: *bows* 1001 apologies

- Aladdin is so smitten with Jasmine after dancing with her during "Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim". He awkwardly approaches her and tries to make small talk, stammering a few times. He asks if she has a boyfriend as she gets distracted by something in the market. He's so adorable.

- Jasmine and Aladdin do the cutest little dance together during the last chorus of "A Million Miles Away".

- Genie when he appeared after Aladdin rubbed the lamp: *to audience* I told you you'd see me again!
Aladdin: what
Genie: what

- "Friend Like Me" was amazing. My drama teacher and I were literally holding and squeezing each other the entire song because we were so amazed. Her son gave us weird looks.

- Waiters just shot up out of the stage out of nowhere.

- "Dancing With the Scimitars" is a huge Dancing With the Stars" spoof, complete with judges and a Mirror Ball Trophy.

- When the Genie starts singing all those other Disney songs, Aladdin sits down on a chair two girls brought out, and they cover him up with a blanket. Two men bring out a small trunk. When the Genie sings "watch Al disappear right before your eyes", the girls lift up the blanket to reveal that Aladdin has disappeared, and the two men lift up the trunk, the top pops open, and Aladdin tumbles out in complete shock.

- Genie: Hey kid, can you tap dance?
Aladdin: Nope!
Genie: You can now! *snaps fingers, Aladdin joins in on the dancing*

- Aladdin asked Kassim, Babkak, and Omar to be his royal criers, so Act Two opens with them all decked out reading from scrolls to Jafar and Iago.

- Kassim: Oh-oh-oh your laaand, a-come on aah- *glances at gate*
Omar: *whispers* I don't think that was the cue line!

- The Genie enters during "Prince Ali" wearing a blue suit and matching hat. He throws his hat into the orchestra pit before he starts singing.

- So. Many. Costumes. Within. One. Song.

- Two ensemble members tear Genie's suit off of him, revealing an even flashier white costume under it.

- Aladdin is convinced by Jafar to follow Jasmine into her chambers, which is apparently super illegal.

- Aladdin asks the Genie to go back to his lamp while he goes to find Jasmine, and the Genie throws a hilarious diva fit once Aladdin exits. A dressing room door rises from the stage, and the Genie says, "Well if you need me, I'll be in my dressing room!" before going through the door and slamming it. Then he awkwardly walked off stage.

- Words cannot describe how beautiful "A Whole New World" is. There are sparkly stars, they fly over rivers, they even go into space! A woman two rows in front of me starting crying over how gorgeous and wonderful the entire scene was. I almost did too.

- When Kassim, Babkak, and Omar find out that Aladdin's been thrown into the dungeon and may be facing execution, they're in the marketplace with their fancy hats from "Prince Ali". Omar is a chicken, Babkak is a great friend, and Kassim is super eager to sell their hats to get weapons.

- Omar: You see, I hate weapons because- *is handed a sword* -this thing is aWESOME

- After the first chorus of "High Adventure", the three of them run upstage as the set disappears, and when they turn around, they start running in place while the lights make it look like they're running through the desert. The crowd LOST IT.

- Babkak fights the guards over a sandwich at one point.

- The three women saying hi are Jasmine's attendants, and they immediately go and start fawning over Kassim, Babkak, and Omar. The three of them start holding the girls, but drop them to the ground during "Hark! Something calls like a dream". The girls are not happy about that.

- They're captured and sent to the dungeon with Aladdin by the end of the song.

- The four of them are chained to a wall. Kassim has to stretch over to Aladdin to rub the lamp. When he rubbed it, the wall behind him flew open, slamming him into an empty part of the wall, revealing the Genie's dressing room door before he jumped out.

- Aladdin and the Genie leave together after "Somebody's Got Your Back", and Kassim, Babkak, and Omar sing a really short reprise, each one of them getting knocked out and recaptured by a guard one by one.

- When Jafar crashes the wedding with the lamp and Jasmine captured, he climbs up on a table that you can clearly see under. When he wishes to be Sultan, something rips his black costume off to reveal a white version of it. When he wishes to be a genie, that costume is tore off him to reveal a red costume.

- When Jafar is sucked into the lamp, he disappears down into the table. Where did he go? I could clearly see under it.

- When Aladdin wishes for the Genie's freedom, everyone, both on stage and in the audience got really quiet. The Genie froze for a moment, then looked down at his hands. Very slowly, he removed the golden bracelets from him and dropped them to the floor. He looked up, clearly shocked, before erupting into joyful cheers and running and jumping and dancing around the stage. The audience gave him an ovation.

- Genie: *moonwalking, singing* Hello from the other siiiide!

- The magic carpet makes a final reappearance for the finale.

- When the Genie starts singing "A Whole New Whole", he busts in through the gate, decked out in tourist gear, including the Tourist Dad Shirt™, a camera, and suitcases.

- The day after seeing the show, we got to meet Brian Gonzales (Babkak) and ask him a bunch of questions.

- Originally, he and the two other actors playing Kassim and Omar were cast as narrators, and Jonathan Schwartz (Omar) was always worried over being let go since their characters weren't absolutely necessary.

- Friend: How does the magic carpet work?
Brian: My contract says I can only answer with this... Disney magic! *jazz hands*

- Apparently he completely forgot a line in the final scene after Jafar was defeated, so he just said "So I guess we're not criminal type people anymore."