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Grand Rapids Ballet School Junior Company presents Aladdin & Jasmine’s Royal Tea

Saturday, March 14 | 11:30am-1:30pm
New Hotel Mertens

Aladdin & Jasmine’s Royal Tea

Join us for Aladdin & Jasmine’s Royal Tea on Saturday, March 14 at New Hotel Mertens (seating begins at 11am). Enjoy Cream Tea Service of house-made scones, Bonne Maman  jam, clotted cream, hand-poured tea fit for a prince or princess, photo booth, costume contest, and more. After you will see Grand Rapids Ballet School Junior Company’s Aladdin at Peter Martin Wege Theatre and attend an exclusive after-show meet-and-greet with your favorite characters. This will be a magical afternoon for the entire family!

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Aladdin & Jasmine’s Royal Tea Tickets

Tickets are $49 per person and include the tea, your seat at Aladdin, and a special meet-and-greet with the characters after the performance.

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About Aladdin

Based on the folktale from the book One Thousand and One Nights and choreographed by Director Attila Mosolygo, Grand Rapids Ballet School Junior Company presents Aladdin.

Aladdin is an impoverished young boy living in the city of Agrabah. He falls in love with a beautiful princess named Jasmine when he sees her shopping on the busy, crowded streets of the bustling city. He is recruited by a Sorcerer who passes himself off as a merchant to retrieve an old oil lamp from a cave in exchange for gold. Thinking he could impress the princess with his treasure, Aladdin agrees.

Before heading out on his dangerous quest, the Sorcerer presents him a very special ring — one which holds a genie who can only be released by those with a kind heart like Aladdin’s. The genie then leads Aladdin to the oil lamp which is guarded by a fierce dragon on which the genie places a sleeping spell so Aladdin can complete his task.  When Aladdin rubs the oil lamp, he unlocks a more powerful genie who is bound to do the bidding of the person who released him. With the aid of this genie, Aladdin wishes to be rich with the hope of winning Princess Jasmine’s heart.

The Sorcerer hears of Aladdin’s good fortune and, dressed in disguise, tricks his mother, who is unaware the lamp is magical, to trade it for a new one.  With the oil lamp now in his possession, the Sorcerer is filled with greed and orders the genie to take away Aladdin’s riches.  Aladdin now realizes how that power can be misused, and decides to challenge the Sorcerer to take back the oil lamp and return it to the cave where it belongs.

But now poor and powerless, will Aladdin and Jasmine live happily ever?

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