The record-breaking blockbuster musical, adapted from the 1992 animated film, will open next August at the Capitol Theatre.

The hit Broadway adaptation of Disney’s Oscar-winning 1992 animated classic Aladdin will have its Australian premiere in August 2016 at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre, it was announced today. Nominated for five Tony Awards and a Grammy Award after its Broadway season in 2014, the creative team behind the production reads like a who’s-who of musical theatre royalty.

With music by the eight-time Oscar-winning composer behind Beauty and the Beast, Sister Act and Little Shop of Horrors, Alan Menken, and lyrics by the late Howard Asham, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin, who between them boast five Oscars, this stage interpretation of Aladdin is directed and choreographed by the Tony-winning man behind the global smash-hit The Book of Mormon, Casey Nicholaw. Seven-time Tony-winning designer Bob Crowley and five-time Tony-winning lighting designer Natasha Katz have taken the Arabian magic of the original animated film and translated it for the stage using cutting edge set and lighting techniques.

In addition to the cherished songs from the original, including the Oscar-winning A Whole New World, the musical also features a catalogue of new...