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Oct. 23rd, 2014 08:49 amI have chronicled our first meeting with Mr. James Monroe Iglehart at New York Comic Con previous on this web log.
We arrange for tickets this past Sunday to finally go see Aladdin. We arranged for Caroline’s best friend to come along on the adventure as well. Caroline was over the moon that she could share this adventure with her friend.
We found out later good thing we picked this weekend since, as of next week, they are rotating actors in and out on their vacations before the holiday season and a couple of the original cast were taking next week off.
House seats are always good. We got the girls in a position so they could see the stage without a large human head blocking them. To my left was a young girl who was seeing her first Broadway show so I had both her happy reactions as well as Caroline and Friend to see.
The show is very good. It is closer to the original ideas of Aladdin. There are a number of characters and one or two songs that were scrapped from the film for various reasons that are back here. No monkeys or parrots but they are represented in their own ways.
The show flows well and James is amazing as the Genie. He looks like he is having the time of his life out there on the boards. Peter even got a shout out from the Genie from on stage.
Afterwards we were allowed backstage and I am looking around having some serious flashbacks to theaters I have worked in. The girls got to wander around and look at all the stuff and how they get that much stuff packed into a relatively small stage area and backstage area.
James joined us and we went out to dinner. A fun time was had by all. Conversation went all over the place as good conversations do. At the end of dinner the table next to us told James how much they had enjoyed his performance the night before. He took a picture with the kids and the father said that this was the perfect ending to their New York vacation.
It is nice meeting someone who is just so happy that he is performing in a role that means so much to so many. He was gracious to everyone who came up and spoke to him. You can’t help but to find yourself smiling when you are around him. We need more people like him on the planet.
We parted ways but promises to get together again.
Caroline got to tell her friends at school about her adventure the next day. They were impressed. Caroline’s friend had a good time too as did Peter and I.
I am grateful that a chance meeting at NYCC has lead where it did.
We arrange for tickets this past Sunday to finally go see Aladdin. We arranged for Caroline’s best friend to come along on the adventure as well. Caroline was over the moon that she could share this adventure with her friend.
We found out later good thing we picked this weekend since, as of next week, they are rotating actors in and out on their vacations before the holiday season and a couple of the original cast were taking next week off.
House seats are always good. We got the girls in a position so they could see the stage without a large human head blocking them. To my left was a young girl who was seeing her first Broadway show so I had both her happy reactions as well as Caroline and Friend to see.
The show is very good. It is closer to the original ideas of Aladdin. There are a number of characters and one or two songs that were scrapped from the film for various reasons that are back here. No monkeys or parrots but they are represented in their own ways.
The show flows well and James is amazing as the Genie. He looks like he is having the time of his life out there on the boards. Peter even got a shout out from the Genie from on stage.
Afterwards we were allowed backstage and I am looking around having some serious flashbacks to theaters I have worked in. The girls got to wander around and look at all the stuff and how they get that much stuff packed into a relatively small stage area and backstage area.
James joined us and we went out to dinner. A fun time was had by all. Conversation went all over the place as good conversations do. At the end of dinner the table next to us told James how much they had enjoyed his performance the night before. He took a picture with the kids and the father said that this was the perfect ending to their New York vacation.
It is nice meeting someone who is just so happy that he is performing in a role that means so much to so many. He was gracious to everyone who came up and spoke to him. You can’t help but to find yourself smiling when you are around him. We need more people like him on the planet.
We parted ways but promises to get together again.
Caroline got to tell her friends at school about her adventure the next day. They were impressed. Caroline’s friend had a good time too as did Peter and I.
I am grateful that a chance meeting at NYCC has lead where it did.
