The Magic Lamp: A New Holiday Show for the Whole Family
Marin Mommies presents a sponsored article from the Presidio Theatre, presenting The Magic Lamp this holiday season.
This December the newly renovated Presidio Theatre is presenting The Magic Lamp, a new holiday show for San Francisco. The show runs December 1–31 with 27 performances and is appropriate for ages 4 and up.
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About the Magic Lamp
Fun for the whole family, The Magic Lamp turns the classic children’s tale of Aladdin on its head with magnificent costumes, musical parodies, dance, magic, and over-the-top silliness. Join Aladdin, a bike messenger, and Jazz, the daughter of a successful tech entrepreneur, as they discover new love and ancient magic in modern day San Francisco. The Magic Lamp is brimming with humor, featuring work by Grammy and Emmy award-winning comedy writer and musician Mason Williams (Classical Gas, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and Saturday Night Live), and Musical Direction by Bill Keck (Beach Blanket Babylon).
The cast for The Magic Lamp includes some of the Bay Area’s and the nation’s most accomplished and versatile musical comedy actors with credentials ranging from Broadway to American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, CalShakes, Beach Blanket Babylon, and others. Actors include Rotimi Agbabiaka as Aladdin, Sharon Shao as Jazz, Danny Scheie as Abba (the villain), Reneé Lubin as Genie of the Ring, Curt Branom as Widow Twankey, JM Appleby as the Genie of the Lamp, and many others.
What is Panto?
Panto is a beloved holiday family tradition in the UK and Ireland. For over 150 years, these seasonal comical adaptations of classic fairy tales have been told with music, slapstick, repartee, and audience interaction. While The Magic Lamp follows the storyline of the children’s tale Aladdin, the characters, setting, and plot have been updated and informed by modern events, and the dialogue is spiced up with double-entendre that only the adults in the audience will understand and appreciate. Audiences will quickly get into the act, learning to cheer the heroes and boo the villains.
