Originally Posted By yamabuki Here's the NYTimes article from 2003 about the making of Aladdin, and the people they hired to create the show: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/06/arts/theater/06DISN.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01...ISN.html</a>
Originally Posted By gadzuux The creation of the show, including sets and costumes, is a one time expense. Once the new show has been produced and staged, the costs of operating the show are probably comparable to what they're currently budgeting for Aladdin. If you amortize those one-time expenses over the life of the show - such as the initial start-up costs for Aladdin spread out over seven or eight years - it's not a lot of money. Especially when you consider the daily capacity of a Hyperion show.
Originally Posted By TP2000 To be fair Hans, Beach Blanket Babylon changes a great deal more than the Genie's lines in Aladdin do. They change the script, the jokes, the costumes and even the hats in Beach Blanket Babylon quite regularly, as pop culture and the nation changes. Funniest visits for me to Beach Blanket Babylon were in '98 in the midst of the Monica Lewinsky and Clinton Impeachment scandal. I haven't been in a few years, but I have to imagine there's a Sarah Palin charecter in there now. But for the record, I think it was a wise move to keep Aladdin playing in Hyperion, if only to minimize downtimes and closures during the DCA upheaval of 2010-12. They can shut the theater down and redo it in Fall, 2012 after Cars Land opens.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Great.... Now I'm uncontrollably humming "San Francisco, open your golden gate, you let no stranger wait outside your door! San Francisco..." Thanks a lot Hans. ;-)
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt LOL. Sorry about that. Yes, you are correct, it does change more than Aladdin. Still, that show show, like Aladdin, isn't anything that one would need to see more than once or twice.
Originally Posted By pleiades357 ****<<This is perhaps the Disney website with the most complaining going on. You guys beat MiceChat, and that's saying a lot!>> No one is forcing you to post here... ****** don't you just love people who complain about complaining? I worked with four people who complained all the time about how negative others were they never got it ;-) I do wish you all wouldn't complain about people complaining about people complaining... it just makes me complain
Originally Posted By pleiades357 Actually, ended up here because I noticed Aladdin is not listed on the entertainment schedule... and I don't like the new schedule on the webpage... it was so easy to read and copy before, now that it is dressier, it is not easy to see at a glance and can't control the printing to fit it on one easy page eliminating the things we are not interested in and the new web pages take for ever to load. progress backwards
Originally Posted By BellesLibrarian I read someplace (maybe here?) that Aladdin was on hiatus for a few weeks while the trolley lines are being worked on near the theater. It was getting to be too hard to get too the show. It should be back in October (can't remember the date). Hope that helps!
Originally Posted By pleiades357 Thank you, I'll watch for it to show up on the schedule then. I still love that show... I only wish they had more shade for standing in line, I do fry so easily. I wondered what happened to the the trolley, the rails went in and .... no trolley....
Originally Posted By BellesLibrarian Any time. Enjoy the show! I'm looking forward to seeing the trolley once it starts running in 2011, or is 2012 or maybe 2013? I can't keep track of all the exciting developments.
Originally Posted By pleiades357 ;-) at that, I will be old enough to need it to get down the street ;-)
Originally Posted By GMLSKIS Finally Aladdin has been added back to the official schedule on Disney's website. I'm going in a few weeks and am glad to see I can watch the show 3 of my 5 days. They seem to be dark on Wednesday and Thursday.
