Frozen - Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The original story of Aladdin, which is part of the collection of stories in "One Thousand and One Nights," did not specify the ethnicity or skin color of the main characters, including Aladdin or Jafar. The story is supposedly set in China, and some versions of the tale have depicted Aladdin as Chinese or with Asian features, while others have portrayed him as Arab or Middle Eastern.

As for Disney's version of Aladdin (and Jafar), the decision to portray Jafar as white has been a subject of controversy and criticism. The 1992 animated film has been criticized for its cultural insensitivity and for perpetuating stereotypes about Middle Eastern and Arab cultures. While the film was set in a fictional city called Agrabah, it drew on visual and cultural elements from a variety of Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures.

In recent years, Disney has been criticized for its lack of diversity and representation in its films, including the casting of white actors in non-white roles but then they are obsessed with casting the Genie as a black role and genies don’t exist.

Jafar In theory could have been from any ancient country - plus we all need to stop this woke obsession with authenticity and identity politics. If that’s the case Sven in Frozen (coming from the Sami tribe) should be a white Scandinavian actor only. It must work both ways. It doesn’t.

Release Aladdin. Now back to Frozen.

When is the best time to visit to avoid screaming crying kids?

Was considering a midweek matinee since they’d all be at school?

There was no attempt to maintain the minimum age rule when I saw it. There were what I would call actual babies.

As long as they aren’t as high pitched!

This is what has put me off seeing Frozen - I just don’t want to sit in an auditorium full of little kids who don’t know how to behave in a theatre. Same goes for the Lion King. If there was an adult-only performance, I would absolutely book.

Am I the only person who found it dark? As in underlit? Honestly I was mid stalls and for several scenes it was like someone hadn’t paid the leccy bill and we were running on emergency lighting. Very underpowered, even the supposed big icy lighting moments seemed subdued. I haven’t seen too many Disney musicals but this was definitely towards the bottom of the ratings. I thought the recent BATB was much better than this. I’m glad to see it go and another theatre unclogged! Now get rid of The Lion King too. That’s overstayed it’s welcome by about ten years.

This is one of my worst theatre nightmares! I went to see Frozen when it just opened and that was bad enough. Don’t even want to imagine this!

Agreed, most other shows in the west end have worse behaved audiences.

I've seen Frozen 4 times and the kids have been fine. Granted they chatter a bit but it's not disruptive and usually quite amusing. As others have said I've had far worse behaviour in shows from adults.

I saw Frozen in the cheapest seats right at the back of the highest circle. The behaviour of everyone was way better than the adult audience for Guys & Dolls in good stalls seats. The amount of adults at Guys & Dolls who needed to go on multiple toilet trips, forcing everyone to get up to let them out, was ridiculous.

Nothing's been announced. Just a few rumours circling.