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...precedent, clearly, is Ralph Lauren. Lauren brilliantly created a multibillion-dollar kingdom by exploiting middle-class Americans' yearning for a patrician past they never had. As his empire grew, his vision stayed focused. No one admires the Polo king's achievement more than Karan, whose great ambition seems to be to repeat his success...
...songs have an entirely different flavor than those of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. "One Jump Ahead," by Menken and Rice, evokes the frenzy of the chase as Aladdin eludes the palace guard through the streets of the mythical kingdom of Agrabah. "A Whole New World," also by the creative team of Menken and Rice and performed by Brad Kane and Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon), propels us on an exciting magic carpet ride with Aladdin and Princess Jasmine...
...make in order to fulfill their dreams. In the Act One finale they declare themselves "happy now and happy then, happy ever after," but the second act finds each of them just a little discontent. Their second trip "into the woods" is precipitated by a disaster affecting the whole kingdom. This journey is a much harder one and has higher stakes...
...does, in the Disney comedy-adventure Aladdin, produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Boy meets, loses and gets Girl in an Arabian kingdom of cotton-candy palaces, tiger-mouthed pyramids, wicked viziers, larcenous monkeys, misanthropic parrots, a truly magic carpet and a genie who changes shapes and personalities faster than you can say . . . Robin Williams! An enthralling new world...
Despite his continuing need to shroud himself in sexual and emotional ambiguity, Prince, unlike Michael Jackson, has never let fame insulate him from reality. His kinky kingdom is alive with the voices and concerns of ordinary people; in standout cuts like 7, The Morning Papers and The Sacrifice of Victor, the music teems with monologues, dialogues and soaring gospel exhortations, all conjoining in a communion of anger, hope and harmony. The irony is sweet enough for even the pharaoh of funk to savor. After years of penitential posing, Prince has looked into his jaded soul and found creative deliverance...