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| re: Is “Aladdin” close to closing? | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 10:09 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:07 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
| In reply to: Is “Aladdin” close to closing? - kieran 09:54 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
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| ...according to a top Broadway source, who candidly adds: “At the end of the day, Aladdin is a kiddies [sic] show. At the end of the day? How about the beginning and middle of the day too? Was this supposed to be some blockbuster revelation? OF COURSE it's a kid's show. |
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| re: Is “Aladdin” close to closing? | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 11:48 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Is “Aladdin” close to closing? - Chromolume 10:07 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
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| Well..... The people who were kids when the movie came out are in their 40s now. It was special in a way the re-re-re-makes of recent years haven't been. So I can see some adults enjoying it on their own, beyond sharing it with their kids. Something like Frozen, yeah it's for kids. It's too new for its audience to have grown up. Aladdin, though, was still at the beginning (middle?) of the new golden age of Disney animation, with a good dose of the sensibility that makes real golden-age animation last: it knew how to aim at both adults and kids without tipping wholly in either direction. There's enough to keep adults interested that goes over the heads of kids without diminishing what they see. Does that translate to enough childless adults to sustain the Broadway show now? No, probably not. But it's not exactly a "kid show" in the way that some are. |
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| re: Is “Aladdin” close to closing? | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:44 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Is “Aladdin” close to closing? - Chromolume 10:07 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
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| Important to note the source of this "source" is OK, the publication with the lowest indicia of reliability on the planet. That said, the fact that this and a host of other evergreens (and non-evergreens) are not going to make it through the winter is also not a blockbuster revelation. | |
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