Michele pointed me to a disney.com webpage showcasing the Disney Dream Portrait Series by Annie Leibovitz. And the recent photos of Whoopie Goldberg as the genie and J-LO and hubby Marc Anthony as Jasmine and Aladdinhaving their own magic carpet ride.

I’ve seen it already a couple of days ago, it was a short discussion at Aladdin Central, and I’ve seen it, thanks though. Here’s what I have to say:
I think the photos are artistically very beautiful. But, with my critical guard-the-fandom, eye I see many errors.
I mean, I understand it was too much hassle to recreate Carpet’s unique pattern but at least the outfits of Jennifer and Marc should’ve resembled the animated characters. Instead she wears that might be modeled after Jasmine’s golden Enchanted Tales dress. While Marc wears a shirt, the cartoon Aladdin doesn’t wear shirts until deep into the series, and a jacket with a nice looking pattern.
The good thing is the use of Taj Mahal which the 1992 films creators based Agrabah’s Palace design on.

Whoopi is a good actress with many classic roles in many more classic films on her resume but I question she can play a genie, at least not big blue. Due to her Lion King connection, she voices Shenzi, the thumbnail made me think she was doing Mufasa.
Notice she does wear golden bracelets and comes from a lamp.

You know I’m afraid that Disney theatrical productions will, eventually, make Genie a black woman when it’s time for the Broadway show. Not that I’m a racist but I never understood why so often major supporting character change sex and race in Broadway adoptions of Disney films.
I mean look at the Disney musicals. Rafiki was male in the film but became female for the Broadway show. In Tarzan they did the same with Turk and in The Little Mermaid Triton went from a white male merman to a black merman.

Then look at the other photos in every photo, except maybe King Arthur, it easy to see which character the celeb plays with matching costumes but the Aladdin photos don’t. That’s odd don’t you think?