Aladdin On Broadway Announces New Principal Cast Members

Disney’s Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical, is pleased to announce new principal cast members ahead of the company’s sixth anniversary. Ainsley Melham, star of the original Australian production of Aladdin, will return to the title role on Broadway in March. The exact date will be announced in the near future. Melham previously played the role on Broadway in 2019. Rodney Ingram will re-join the Broadway company to play the role starting Monday, February 17^th  until Melham’s return. Marina Pires (On Your Feet! National Tour) will make her Broadway debut as Jasmine.

Clinton Greenspan the current Aladdin, will play his final performance on Sunday, February 16.

Pires will cover Jasmine Tuesday, March 24^th through Sunday, May 31^st. A permanent Jasmine replacement will be announced at a later date. Arielle Jacobs the current Jasmine, will play her final performance on Sunday, March 22.

Melham, Ingram and Pires join the Broadway company that also stars Michael James Scott (Something Rotten!; The Book of Mormon; Tarzan) as Genie, and Tony Award^® nominee Jonathan Freeman (Mary Poppins, The Producers, She Loves Me) as Jafar, bringing to the stage the role he indelibly created in the animated film. The show also features Brian Gonzales, Mike Longo and Brad Weinstock as Aladdin’s sidekicks Babkak, Kassim and Omar, JC Montgomery as Sultan and Don Darryl Rivera as Iago.  Juwan Crawley, Dennis Stowe and Deonté L. Warren stand by for several principals.

AINSLEY MELHAM (Aladdin). Melham returns to Aladdin having made his Broadway debut in the title role in 2019. He recently filmed the show in London for later release, having created the role in the first Australian tour for which, he earned a 2017 Helpmann Award nomination. His other theatre credits in his native Australia includes Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Sonny Malone in Xanadu. Television credits include Seasons 1-3 of “Hi-5 House” (Nickelodeon/Disney/Netflix) as a member of iconic musical group Hi-5. He received his training at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

RODNEY INGRAM (Aladdin) is overjoyed to be back in Agrabah, this time playing Aladdin! Ingram made his Broadway debut with this company in 2015 understudying the title role. He was last seen starring as Raoul in the 30th anniversary Broadway cast of The Phantom of the Opera. His favorite regional credits include Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid, Laurie in Little Women and Gremio in Kiss Me Kate. His television credits include a recurring role on “Jane the Virgin” on the CW. rodneyingram.com

MARINA PIRES (Jasmine) is honored to be making her Broadway debut in such an iconic Disney classic! She is a trilingual actress and singer-songwriter born in Brazil, and raised in sunny South Florida. Her credits include Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet! (National Tour & Regional), PHISH (Madison Square Garden), Vanessa in In The Heights (Dallas Theatre Center), and Rapunzel in Into The Woods with Tituss Burgess. As a songwriter, Pires lyrics have been featured in the Off-Broadway musical A Never-Ending Line. Her band “The Heartstrings Project” is releasing their debut album Shadow People in 2020.

As previously announced, Michael James Scott will return as Genie on Friday, February 28^th. Juwan Crawley, and Deonté L. Warren will cover the role once current Genie Major Attaway departs on Sunday, February 16^th.

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