From the Niagara Falls Review:
At this time last year, producer Linus Hand recalls he was “still convincing people” a major Disney show was coming to Niagara Falls.
It didn’t matter that his company, Silver Mist Productions, had already lined up a director, secured a theatre and spent $1.6 million booking the musical “Aladdin, Jr.” Talk isn’t enough in this town, he discovered.
So he showed them.
Playing at the Greg Frewin Theatre all last summer, “Aladdin, Jr.” ended up being one of the year’s surprise hits, eventually coming back for a Christmas encore. The show impressed critics in Toronto and won over local school boards, who scooped up 16,000 tickets before the run ended.
But it’s what the show wasn’t that mattered most - cheesy, cheap and tacky.
With Disney’s seal of approval (not to mention its hefty licensing fees), “Aladdin, Jr.” was exactly what it claimed to be: Toronto-calibre theatre in Niagara Falls.
So one big Disney icon deserves another.
The good news? For its follow-up, Silver Mist has reeled in box office heavyweight “Beauty and the Beast.”
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Strange they are moving the play to Epworth Circle. It seems to me they are going after a more local crowd over the tourists. I’ve never been on this road. Anything special on it? How is the Kingston College?
Kingston College was formerly Niagara Falls Collegiate (NFCVI). Epworth Circle is, indeed, a circle with the college right in the middle. The entire outside of the circle is residential. The auditorium there was very nice when I went to high school, but that was many, many years ago. I believe the article states that it has been refurbished so it will be interesting to see. I think that it holds about 1000 people. Parking there is very limited and will be a problem.