Cabbagetown Theatre Company annually creates a ½ hour pantomime style play for children as part of the September Cabbagetown Festival. All performances take place in the Necropolis Chapel!
Cabbagetown Festival Children’s Show
Aladdin And His Magical Lamp At The 2009 Cabbagetown Festival
The Cabbagetown Theatre Company presents Aladdin And His Magical Lamp from September 11 – 13 at the 2009 Cabbagetown Festival. It’s a raucously entertaining comedy for the whole family, featuring a boy named Aladdin and his outrageous mother, a magical genie, a demanding Princess, and an evil wizard with Simon Cowell-like tendencies.
Aladdin And His Magical Lamp will be presented at the Necropolis Chapel, 200 Winchester Street, just across from Riverdale Farm. Shows are scheduled for Friday, September 11 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13 at 12 noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are only $5.00 for both adults and children, and are available at the door. Shows run 30 minutes.
The show follows the adventures of the recently laid-off Aladdin, who at the prompting of his overbearing mother, takes a job with the evil Abanazer, who needs someone with a heart as pure as snow to enter a hidden cave and recover an enchanted lamp for him. There are encounters with a smart-talking Princess, a domineering Genie and a magic carpet along the way, as this panto-style comedy prepares to delight audiences at this year’s Cabbagetown Festival.
Aladdin And His Magical Lamp was adapted from the fairy tale and directed by Kim Sprenger. It features the talents of returning Festival favourites Basil Tamkei as Aladdin, Wendy Akerboom as the Widow Twankey, David Occhipinti as Abanazer The Wizard and Michelle Fukes as Princess Jasmine and The Genie.
