MAGIC CARPET COSTUME MOVIE
After 1937 it became a movie theatre but it fell into disuse in the 1980s. I touch down on Broadway, in orchestra seats at the historic New Amsterdam Theatre, which was once the home of the Ziegfeld Follies. The stage version of this ''city of mystery and enchantment'', as the opening number describes it, is not anything you'd find in a Lonely Planet Guide (it's more Bing Crosby and Bob Hope's Road to Morocco than reality) but the dazzling stage settings and astoundingly beautiful costumes have been created to capture the spirit of ''joyfulness'' found in the sensual North African city, according to costume designer Gregg Barnes.īy submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's Photo: Deen van MeerĪnd Morocco? My carpet doesn't make a physical stop there but the musical's fictional city of Agrabah, Aladdin's hometown, is a flamboyant, high camp reimaging of Marrakech, which the show's designers visited when they were conceptualising the production. I do it on an A380, more flying whale than carpet, but the experience is magical nevertheless.Īdam Jacobs in Aladdin. I have been invited to fly to New York to see the Broadway show, meet the team behind the production and then wing my way back to Sydney to visit the inner city workshop where the opulent costumes are being made.
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