who played the genie in aladdin on broadway
James Monroe Iglehart Iglehart is perhaps best known for his Tony Award-winning performance as the Genie in the original Broadway production of Aladdin. Iglehart assumed the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the Broadway company of Hamilton in April 2017.
Iago (Disney) Iago is a fictional supporting character in the animated Aladdin films and television series produced by The Walt Disney Company. He is voiced by Gilbert Gottfried and appeared in the first film as the sidekick to the main villain Jafar, and later becomes one of the protagonists for the rest of the Aladdin franchise's run. The red-plumed talking scarlet macaw is a homage to Shakespeare's Othello