Disney’s Aladdin, the Tony Award-winning new musical comedy based on the Academy Award®-winning animated film, is pleased to announce that original stars Adam Jacobs (Aladdin), Tony Award nominee Jonathan Freeman (Jafar), Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart (Genie) and Courtney Reed (Jasmine) have extended their contracts with the production through February 21, 2016. The four actors have led the “sublime” (NY1) Aladdin company since its pilot production at Seattle’s Fifth Avenue Theatre in the summer of 2011 and garnered critical acclaim when the Broadway production opened on March 20, 2014.
In the title role, Adam Jacobs is “beaming” (The New York Times), “perfect” (NY1) and “packs plenty of charm” (The Hollywood Reporter). The Associated Press calls Tony Award nominee Jonathan Freeman “simply delicious,” bringing to the stage the role of Jafar he indelibly created in the animated film. In his Tony Award-winning role of Genie, James Monroe Iglehart “shines with enough charisma to light a thousand and one nights,” exclaims the Daily News. And Courtney Reed is “stunning” (Associated Press), playing Jasmine “with a likable light touch” (The New York Times).
Also continuing in their principal roles are original cast members Brian Gonzales and Jonathan Schwartz as Aladdin’s sidekicks Babkak and Omar, Clifton Davis as Sultan, Don Darryl Rivera as Iago, Merwin Foard as the standby for Jafar/Sultan and Steel Burkhardt, who recently joined the production as Kassim.
The production is pleased to welcome new principal cast member Trevor Dion Nicholas (standby for Genie/Babkak) to the company beginning March 2015.
Trevor Dion Nicholas (Standby Genie/Babkak) is making his joyous Broadway debut! Regional/tour: Big River (Jim), Super Fly: The Musical (Fat Freddy), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Mitch Mahoney), Ragtime (Coalhouse) The Wiz (Lion). TV: “The Americans.” Primary songwriter and vocalist for the alt/indie R&B band Neighborhood Goliath.