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A performer who plays the role of Jafar in the Aladdin Musical Spectacular at Disney's California Adventure was found to be intoxicated during the first performance of the Aladdin Musical that day. from I know guests in the audience could tell that the performer was drunk and filled guest relations with complaints. The performer was suspended but was then allowed to return to work. Disney really dropped the ball on this one by allowing an employee to return to work after be found intoxicated.
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Last edited by Dustysage; 01-18-2005, 07:38 AM. -
They really dropped the ball by even allowing him to go on stage drunk. Could no one tell this backstage at all?
-- Peoplemover "Don't play Jafar on stage after drinking 6 beers? BRILLIANT!" Matt
"Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom." -- James 3:13 -
This is why New Years' is blocked out. Only funny stuff like this happens on blockout days.
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I'd drink too if I was still in that bomb.
In fact, I may have one right now.
Excuse me.
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I understand some performers have, shall we say, been less than thrilled by their experience in this show.
Perhaps some performers want out.So full of Disney Magic, my eyes are blue.
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Neat! I wonder if he's the one that spit on me the time I sat under the 'window' when he said, "that Prince A-Boo(spit)-boo(spit) Ppp(spit)erson!"
I haven't washed my face since."Tender Lumplings everywhere, life's no fun without a good scare!"Comment
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LMAO..... He was drunk... did it "enhance" the performance??
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Doesn't the Genie work drunk every performance...
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no, thats only in the parades....j/kOriginally posted by DarkbeerDoesn't the Genie work drunk every performance...
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Man wow kool
Mna I know who the too guy that play that character. One guy is bigger then the other more muscler. I vessen him at the greetings shop. Well it might have been him. Hey at least the guy got to go back. It not like it was done all the time. It was after all firday was New years eve and friday are when people tend to go to bars and even on saturdays. So I bet the performance was great.DCA Tower Total 890 6/07/05Comment
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Oh, if you only KNEW what kind of behavior goes on backstage in the musicals.Originally posted by PeoplemoverMatt
Just work in a few, you'll find out. "Drunk, and out of control!" 
It just comes with the territory. "Its a hard knock life for us!"
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UpanovaAnd there's something else they can enjoy too: PINEAPPLE!Comment
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How pathetic. Don't they have like, and UNDERSTUDY or something? Really! :confused:Originally posted by wonderland"Somebody need me too much; somebody know me too well. Somebody pull me up short, and put me through hell, and give me support for being alive. Make me alive. Make me alive! Make me confused; mock me with praise. Let me be used. Vary my days. But alone is alone, not alive. Somebody crowd me with love, somebody force me to care. Somebody let me come through, I'll always be there as frightened as you, to help us survive being alive."
--"Being Alive"
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I guess if he was really unhappy and wnted out of the show he could have done it like one performer at Tokyo DL who played Mickey Mouse. During her show when Mickey is supposed to come out of a box filled with fog, she took off her head and rolled it out onto the stage from the box. Now that's a great way to get out of your contract.Comment
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Shiek-en not Stirred
I think it may have been a good case of "method acting" as they must have been drunk when they wrote the show."As usual he's taken over the coolest spot in the house"- Father re: Orville 1963
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That is insane!Comment
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Was this guy slurring or stumbling on stage or something? I could see the CM's notcing, but the Guests? That was one performance I wish I could've seen.Comment
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I'll drink to that!
wish I could have seen the performance. Hey if he remembered his lines and went the performance without puking then good for him.....lol, just kidding =DComment
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Ya, that would have been hillarious to see. I wonder if he tried to hit on Jasmine during the show? Now that's funny.Marge: Barnacle Bill's Home Pregnancy Test? Homer, shouldn't we have gone with a better-known brand?
Homer: But Marge, this one came with a corn-cob pipe!
Marge: [reading from the test box] "Ahoy, Maties! If the water turns blue, a baby for you! If purple ye see, no baby thar be!"
Homer: So, which is it? Blue or purple?
Marge: Pink.
Homer: D'oh!
Marge: "If ye test should fail, to a doctor set sail!"Comment
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Wow, glad to know I'm not the only who drank on the job! It's just the age and the place to do it. Hell I showed up one New Year's for my shift and I had just left a party not 1/2 hour previously. I probably should have gotten busted but what are they going to do?? Send you home and not have someone there to replace you. At least he was suspended after the fact, I'm sure his supervisors figured it was better he was there than to not have an Aladdin show at all. Course if he wasn't a major figure in the show then who knows what they were thinking!!sigpicComment
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Disney really dropped the ball by allowing this show to run at all.Originally posted by wonderlandComment
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