Aladdin (Broadway Musical)
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40 free Aladdin (Broadway Musical) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Disney's Aladdin reached Broadway more than twenty years after the animated film, and it did not arrive as a copy. The stage version trades a famous animal sidekick for three human pals, hands the Genie the opening number and brings back songs that had sat unused since the film was made. This quiz covers the show from its first tryouts to its long run in New York: who originated the leading roles, who wrote and staged it, which numbers were added or revived, how the story differs from the film, and where the production has travelled since. It suits theatre fans who know the cast album by heart, families who have just seen the show, and anyone who loved the 1992 film and wants to know what changed on stage.
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Q 01Which sidekick replaced Babkak, Omar and Kassim in the 1992 film before the Aladdin stage musical restored them?
Abu
Abu, the hero's pet monkey, pushed the three human pals out of the 1992 film. They had been created for the film by its songwriters, and the stage show gives them back their songs.
Q 02Which comedian voiced the Genie in the 1992 Disney film that the Aladdin Broadway musical is based on?
Robin Williams
Robin Williams voiced the Genie on screen, while the stage Genie gets an extra job: he also delivers the opening narration that the film gave to a peddler.
Q 03The Tony-winning original Genie of Aladdin on Broadway left the show in 2017 to join which other hit musical?
Hamilton
Hamilton gave the departing Genie two parts at once, the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, after about three years of granting wishes at Aladdin.
Q 04Which Genie showstopper did the cast of the Aladdin Broadway musical perform at the 2014 Tony Awards ceremony?
Friend Like Me
Friend Like Me is the number in which the Genie proves his powers to a doubting Aladdin, who has just been sealed inside the Cave of Wonders.
Q 05Telly Leung, who took over the title role in Aladdin on Broadway in 2017, played a Warbler on which TV series?
Glee
Glee cast him as Wes, a member of the Dalton Academy Warblers, years before he flew the magic carpet at Aladdin.
Q 06Which composer wrote the music for every song in the Aladdin Broadway musical, film favourites and new numbers alike?
Alan Menken
Alan Menken wrote four new songs for the stage show and revived three that had been written for the 1992 film but never used.
Q 07Which opening number of the Aladdin stage musical is sung by the Genie instead of the film's peddler?
Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights was sung in the 1992 film by a peddler whom the directors later confirmed to be the Genie in disguise, a link the stage show makes plain.
Q 08Which Oscar-winning duet do Aladdin and Jasmine sing during the magic carpet ride in the Broadway stage musical?
A Whole New World
A Whole New World was also the first song from a Disney animated film to top the US Billboard Hot 100.
Q 09Josh Dela Cruz, a longtime understudy for Aladdin on Broadway, became the host of which preschool TV series?
Blue's Clues & You!
Blue's Clues & You! chose him from more than 3,000 actors who auditioned, after about five years covering the title role in Aladdin.
Q 10In which city did the Aladdin stage musical play the Prince Edward Theatre from 2016 until 2019?
London
London's West End run was seen by more than two million people across 1,361 performances before it closed in August 2019.
Q 11In which city did the Aladdin stage musical have its Australian premiere in 2016, at the Capitol Theatre?
Sydney
Sydney's first Aladdin was Ainsley Melham, who came to the role from the children's music group Hi-5 and later played it on Broadway.
Q 12Which Disney musical ended its Broadway run in 2013, freeing the theatre where Aladdin opened the following year?
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins closed in March 2013 after more than six years in the house, and Aladdin began previews there the following February.
Q 13In the Aladdin stage musical's second-act parade, the disguised hero is announced as the prince of which invented land?
Ababwa
Ababwa is the made-up homeland of Prince Ali, whose arrival parade, led by the Genie, opens the second act.
Q 21Which Canadian city hosted the pre-Broadway tryout of the Aladdin musical at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in 2013?
Toronto
Toronto's run lasted from November 2013 to January 2014, and Broadway previews began the month after it ended.
Q 22Which lyricist, who pitched the idea for Disney's Aladdin in 1988, wrote the cut songs the stage musical restored?
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman died in 1991 before the film was finished, and three of the songs it dropped were revived for the stage about twenty years later.
Q 23Which lyricist, a collaborator of Andrew Lloyd Webber, wrote the words to One Jump Ahead in the Aladdin musical?
Tim Rice
Tim Rice was brought in to finish the 1992 film's songs after its first lyricist died, and his numbers carried over to the stage version.
Q 14Which new song do Jafar and Iago sing while leading Aladdin to the Cave of Wonders in the Broadway musical?
Diamond in the Rough
Diamond in the Rough takes its title from the Cave of Wonders' own phrase for the one worthy person allowed to enter.
Q 15In the Aladdin stage musical, which office does Jafar hold under the Sultan while plotting to seize the throne?
Grand Vizier
Grand Vizier Jafar ends the show trapped in a lamp of his own, after being tricked into wishing to become a genie.
Q 16Which actor won a Tony Award for playing the Genie in the original Broadway cast of the Aladdin musical?
James Monroe Iglehart
James Monroe Iglehart won Best Featured Actor in a Musical, the show's only win from five Tony nominations.
Q 17At which Broadway theatre, restored by Disney in the 1990s, did the Aladdin musical open in March 2014?
New Amsterdam
The New Amsterdam opened in 1903 and spent 1937 to 1983 as a cinema before Disney restored it; Aladdin played its 4,000th performance there in May 2025.
Q 18Which ballad, cut from the 1992 film with Aladdin's mother, became the stage musical's signature song?
Proud of Your Boy
Proud of Your Boy has Aladdin promising his late mother he will change his ways; a Disney executive had ordered both her and the song out of the film after a test screening.
Q 19Which actor voiced Jafar in the 1992 film and then played the villain in the Aladdin musical on Broadway?
Jonathan Freeman
Jonathan Freeman stayed with the Broadway show for nearly eight years, giving his final performance as Jafar in January 2022.
Q 20In which city was the Aladdin stage musical first staged in 2011, at the 5th Avenue Theatre?
Seattle
Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre is a regular testing ground for Broadway-bound shows, having also launched Hairspray and The Wedding Singer.
Q 24Which actor originated the title role in Aladdin on Broadway, years before his sister Arielle played Jasmine there?
Adam Jacobs
Adam Jacobs had already played Simba in The Lion King on Broadway, and he left Aladdin in 2017 to lead its North American tour.
Q 25Which actress originated Princess Jasmine in Aladdin on Broadway and later starred as Satine in Moulin Rouge?
Courtney Reed
Courtney Reed played Jasmine on Broadway for nearly four years, then returned to the part in the closing cast of the West End production in 2019.
Q 26Which co-director of The Book of Mormon directed and choreographed the Aladdin musical on Broadway?
Casey Nicholaw
Casey Nicholaw had staged the show since its first production in 2011, and his Aladdin choreography earned a Tony nomination.
Q 27In which German city did the Aladdin stage musical open in 2015, before transferring to Stuttgart four years later?
Hamburg
Hamburg's Neue Flora housed the production from December 2015 until February 2019, when the show moved south to the Apollo Theater.
Q 28Which song, new to the Aladdin stage musical, does Jasmine sing to her attendants after refusing another suitor?
These Palace Walls
These Palace Walls comes just after the Sultan orders Jasmine to marry a prince before her birthday, which is only three days away.
Q 29The Broadway theatre where Aladdin opened in 2014 was home to which famous revue series from 1913 to 1927?
Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. kept an office in the building and ran a second theatre on its roof.
Q 30In the Aladdin stage musical, which song cut from the 1992 film do Babkak, Omar and Kassim sing on a rescue mission?
High Adventure
High Adventure sends the trio storming in to free their arrested pal, only for all three to be thrown into the dungeon themselves.