History Theatre / AidaJohnRice

%% * CrowdSong: "Dance of the Robe", "The Gods Love Nubia"
%% * DarkReprise: "My Strongest Suit", "How I Know You" and "Elaborate Lives".

* FinalLoveDuet: "Written in the Stars" for Radames and Aida. Or, probably actually "Enchantment Passing Through (Reprise)" sung as the two lovers are [[spoiler: dying from deprivation of light and air whilst being buried alive for treason]].

* [[spoiler: ReincarnationRomance: At the end, Radames and Aida are reunited in the modern-day museum, having been reincarnated.]]
%% * RoyalBlood: Aida
%% * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The whole premise of the reprise of "How I Know You".

%% * ArrangedMarriage: Amneris and Radames.

%% * BuriedAlive: Radames and Aida's fate.

%% * ConceptAlbum: With contributions from Tina Turner, Lulu and Sting, amongst others.

* SingleTargetSexuality: Before he meets Aida, Radames doesn't seem attracted to anyone, and Amneris is ''really'' frustrated about it.

''Aida'' is a [[TheMusical musical]] based on Verdi's opera of the same name, with music by Music/EltonJohn and lyrics by Creator/TimRice. It premiered on Broadway in 2000, garnering five Tony Award nominations, of which it won all but one, including Best Original Score and Best Actress in a Musical (Heather Headley as Aida).

* ArrangedMarriage: Amneris and Radames.

* {{Bookends}}: "Every Story Is a Love Story", the people in the modern day museum.

* BuriedAlive: Radames and Aida's fate.

* ConceptAlbum: With contributions from Tina Turner, Lulu and Sting, amongst others.

* CrowdSong: "Dance of the Robe", "The Gods Love Nubia"
* DarkReprise: "My Strongest Suit", "How I Know You" and "Elaborate Lives".

** Yet still LighterAndSofter than the opera it's based on.

* TheFashionista: Amneris, who even has a super fun IAmSong about it.

* TheDitz: Amneris. She gets better.
* ErmineCapeEffect[=/=]PimpedOutDress: Amneris is a walking fashion show, {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d through Aida's contrasting rags
* TheHighQueen: Amneris becomes this at the end.
* IAmNotMyFather: Radames' lines in "Like Father Like Son" are all about this.
* IAmSong: "My Strongest Suit"

* IWantSong: "Fortune Favors the Brave"

* LoveAcrossBattlelines: Radames and Aida, obviously.

* RoyalBlood: Aida
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The whole premise of the reprise of "How I Know You".

** Complete with CorruptChurch, as most of Zoser's cronies are in on his regicide plot.

* TenorBoy: Mereb.
** Radames has shades of this as well. They both have pop tenor voices and fit different sides of the Tenor Boy character type. Mereb is by no means innocent and is completely fed up with everyone and everything around him after so many years as a slave, but he is painfully idealistic and naive when it comes to his mental image of his princess and their escape from Egypt. Radames is world-wise and older than Mereb, but he's the one who is hopelessly gaga over the lead female character.

* VillainSong: "Another Pyramid"; though Zoser isn't the BigBad, he's clearly evil.
* VoiceoverLetter: Appropriately enough, "Radames' Letter."

The title character, Aida, is the {{Princess}} of Nubia. Her country has been invaded by the neighboring Egyptians, and their captain, Radames, captures her with a groups of women, and not recognizing her, brings them back to Egypt. Aida becomes a slave to Egyptian {{Princess}} Amneris, who is [[ArrangedMarriage betrothed]] to Radames. Another slave in the palace, Mereb, recognizes Aida and reveals her to the other captives, who beg her to lead them to freedom. Aida tries to deal with her feelings for Radames when she hears her father has been captured.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Amneris is more sympathetic and less of a {{Clingy Jealous Girl}} than in the original opera.

* DarkerAndEdgier: than most Disney musicals. HotterAndSexier too--the sight of a clearly post-coital Aida and Radames can be quite shocking.

* {{Disneyfication}} - The one who suffers most from this is Amneris. In the opera, she's a ClingyJealousGirl who is rather ruthless to her rival in love, and they were only engaged initially because Radames had no other choice.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The imprisoned and chained Aida is alone in a room with her captor. He says "You know what happens next" as he takes off his shirt... he then orders her to wash his back.

* {{Ermine Cape Effect}}/{{Pimped Out Dress}}: Amneris is a walking fashion show, {{Lampshaded}} through Aida's contrasting rags

-->'''Aida''': ''(about speaking to Radames on Amneris behalf)'' Princess... ''Please'' don't make me.
-->'''Amneris''': ''(tenderly)'' I would never make you, I am asking you, as my friend.

* StepfordSmiler: Aida as of "Dance Of The Robe".
** ''I know expectations are wild\\
And almost beyond my fulfilment\\

*** She does, however, state later on in "Easy As Life" that her duty will not let "a coward run".
** Also, Amneris
*** ''I feel better when beguiling/find that fashion keeps me smiling/but in my heart i know it's sad.../So I'll flutter to deceive/no, you must believe, that one day you'll find a different/a stronger suit.''
*** It kicks into high gear during "I Know The Truth", where she sings about her realization that her upcoming marriage is a sham--as she's dressing for her wedding.
* TenorBoy: Mereb

* ArrangedMarriage: Amneris and Radames
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Nubia is not a separate Kingdom/country from Egypt. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia It's actually a region in North Africa]] which ''includes'' Egypt (at least Southern Egypt). In the opera, Aida was a Princess from Ethiopia, and it's uncertain why this change was made.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Nubia is not a separate Kingdom/country from Egypt. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia It's actually a region in North Africa]] which ''includes'' Egypt. In the opera, Aida was a Princess from Ethiopia, and it's uncertain why this change was made.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Nubia is not a separate Kingdom/country from Egypt. It's actually a region in North Africa which ''includes'' Egypt. In the opera, Aida was a Princess from Ethiopia, and it's uncertain why this change was made.

* OddFriendship: Aida and Amneris, though she technically owns Aida, Amenris treat's her kindly, and the two are able to relate well to one another, due to the fact that, unknown to Amneris, they both are Princess.

*** ''I feel better when beguiling/find that fashion keeps me smiling/but in my heart i know it's sad.../So I'll flutter to decieve/no, you must believe, that one day you'll find a different/a stronger suit.''

* LoveTriangle: Aida, Radames and Amneris. [[TriangRelations Mixture of 1 and 3]], though Radames is definitely not neutral toward either woman.
** The show makes it even more blatant by having a laser triangle light up behind the three while they sing "A Step Too Far" at the beginning of Act II.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Aida and Radames embrace passionately at the end of "Elaborate Lives". The scene fades to black. When it fades back in, they're lying in each others arms, with him shirtless and her dress now wrapped around her in ModestyBedsheet style.

* CutSong: ''The Messenger''. Can be found on the concept album.

* StuntCasting: The casting of R&B stars such as Toni Braxton, Michelle Williams, and Deborah Cox, in the title role. Fantastic singing, but some found the acting to border on {{Narm}}.