So beautiful: the costume department of Disney's Aladdin

Here I definitely wasn't the only one: I really dreamed of all the Disney outfits. During my very first time in Disneyland Paris, I had to try on all sorts of dresses, which of course I didn't get from my parents, as they didn't quite fit the budget. But that girlhood dream has always remained, as I have always had a kind of fascination for the outfits of the Disney princesses.

That was also in my top 3 of the most important aspects when I went to Disney's Aladdin: can they portray that beautiful outfit of Jasmine well? And in a musical like Aladdin, the appearance of The Genie is of course also of great importance, just like the transformation of Aladdin into Prince Ali. It really has to bring that magic of Disney and the fairy-tale aspect of the story. Ho ho, I almost forget the most important thing: the lamp.

Well, I can tell you: I was mesmerized. I still really want that blue look of Jasmine, but besides that, she also walked around in the most beautiful dresses. The same goes for Aladdin by the way, who — all credits to the actor too — really transformed from Aladdin to Prince Ali. I can't imagine how much work must have gone into all those costumes... There were so many beautiful hats and turbans. The well-known scene in the market was truly a spectacle to watch.

In total, there are more than 350 costumes to see in Aladdin: that's not normal, right? And all just as beautiful with all sorts of details. They have incorporated 1428 Swarovski crystals into a single costume. So beautiful. Swarovski crystals are used a lot in all these outfits: in total more than two million. Two!

So there is an enormous amount of work in all those costumes, so you have to handle them carefully. Knowing that, it's even more impressive that the character of Jafar has to do a costume change in two seconds. No idea how he manages to do that so quickly, really bizarre. Costume changes are not strange to the cast anyway, as each dancer has to wear at least four costumes per performance, which means that Disney's Aladdin has more than 60 costume changes that need to happen at a rapid pace.

What I didn't count on at Disney's Aladdin in the Circustheater in Scheveningen was the flying carpet. Well, I should write that better as Vliegend Tapijt, because how they set that up I found truly admirable: in the Disney film it is of course really a ‘character’, but that beautiful scene in the musical certainly did not fall short.

And all of that while the entire cast was acting and singing on stage. I want to do it again; this has become my all-time favorite musical, and I still want to be Jasmine.