Aladdin opened at the Bristol Hippodrome this week and it is awesome.

From Broadway and the West End this breathtaking Disney touring production is OTT on spectacular with lots and lots of sparkle and glitter.

Aladdin features the timeless songs from the animated film, as well as new music brilliantly sung.

Loved the super costumes, all kaleidoscope harem pants, and shimming belly-dancing outfits and the cavernous set.

And not forgetting the truly magical carpet soaring way up in the stars and all the disappearing and re-appearing tricks. How did they do that?

It is a Yankee Doodle Dandy of an all-singing all-dancing show. A US style Billy Elliot without the politics or say smuttiness of a British pantomime.

Our hero street urchin Aladdin played by Hong Kong-born Gavin Adams with an American accent and Donny Osmond smile looks as if he was borrowed from a Korean boy band. He has multi-talented musicality and was making his professional debut.

Feisty feminist Princess Jasmine is Desmonda Cathabel who hails from Jakarta was once a contestant in the TV Mamma Mia I Have A Dream fights admirably against a forced marriage while yearning for true-love.

Then there are three musketeer sidekicks to Aladdin – Nelson Bettencourt as Babkak, Adam Taylor as Omar and Nay-Nay at Kassim all seasoned stage performers.

The baddie comes from the north of England – lots of boos for Adam Strong as Jafar and his funny second lieutenant Angelo Paragoso as Iago, a great double act.

Hilarious when Iago is dragged face-down off-stage, ouch.

Yeukayi Ushe as the Genie added to the energy of the faultless cast who all displayed fantastic characterisation.

The Genie really bonded with Aladdin who he called ‘a brother from another mother’.

Who’s not to love, well sadly Jafar but that was his role.

Based on the award-winning 1992 animated film from Middle Eastern folklore it flits between Arabia and Persia – the Taj Mahal palace with turrets and dungeons is spookier that the cave where the lamp was hidden, perhaps because we knew a trapped Aladdin would escape.

Full of Eastern promise this truly international cast is performing perfection.