Aladdin Genie Saying Here We Go Again
'Aladdin' Genie Michael James Scott On Bringing Motion-picture show Magic To The Stage 11:22 Re-create the lawmaking below to embed the WBUR sound player on your site
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The phase adaptation of the 1992 Disney film "Aladdin" is out on a North American tour.
Michael James Scott (@iamMJScott), who stars as the Genie, talks with Here & Now'south Jeremy Hobson about following in Robin Williams' footsteps, some of his favorite numbers to perform and growing up in a musical family unit.
Interview Highlights
On whether he watched the movie version of "Aladdin" growing upwardly
"I mean, admittedly. I grew upward with the brilliance that is 'Aladdin,' and as you abound upwardly, you lot never forget the music and the story. ... I call back the very first sort of matter when Robin Williams [equally the Genie] is like, 'Come up closer, come up closer, oh, too close!' For some reason I withal remember that. And so of course I recollect 'Friend Like Me.' But I too did my first tap solo to 'Friend Like Me,' and so I think that that'southward probably some other big reason why I call up that particular vocal."
On the show's musical fashion
"We become into the sort of Fats Waller, Cab Calloway feel, which has that more jazzy kind of a matter. So this was for it to actually experience like a parade of costumes and scenery, and as you lot'll see in the testify, our ensemble changes iv times during this number, which is insane. And what information technology'due south sort of representing is that it's a different part of the parade. And I love this item feel that we have in the bear witness because ... it'south such a throwback. It almost makes people a footling bit surprised when they see and hear it, because it'southward so different. The sound is so unlike. But this is kind of what it was originally intended to sort of exist, is to have that former big-ring feeling."
"I grew up with the luminescence that is 'Aladdin,' and as you grow up, you never forget the music and the story."
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On his favorite song to sing in the show
"There are 2 moments for me. At that place's a new song that was written for the testify called 'Somebody'due south Got Your Back,' it's in the 2d act and information technology'southward with the Genie and Aladdin, and then with Aladdin'due south friends. Information technology has a very soft-shoe kind of a feel, and I love to sing it. And I besides love 'A Whole New World,' of form. I don't get to sing information technology — I sing it at the very end, I sing a little snippet and I love singing information technology, considering it'due south only such a fun thing. ... Information technology's a cute moment. It'due south sort of just an open up feeling, to get to do that."
On which he likes doing most: singing or dancing
"I mean, I love them all, truly. I grew up singing in church. So singing was the first thing that I did and, I say this all the time, merely my mother said I sang before I spoke. So singing, it's only within me, and I come from a family with lots of music around. Then, singing is amazing. But there is no feeling like dancing though, too. My inspiration is Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Ben Vereen, Sammy Davis, like those cats are like, that's everything for me. So to be able to get to dance, that equally well, I don't know in that location's but, there'south something about it that I love, and it feels so freeing to get to practice."
On how long he'd similar to keep playing the Genie
"I'll be the Genie as long as I tin exercise it. As long every bit my body will let me do it, skilful lord. Merely I beloved it. And yous know, when you play the Genie, if you're having a bad day and yous come up in and play the Genie, it'due south the all-time medicine for you, to become rid of all of that and get to come in and play a grapheme with and so much light."
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This article was originally published on July 27, 2018.
This segment aired on July 27, 2018.
Source: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/07/27/aladdin-genie-michael-james-scott
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