Making use of a table, a lamp, the front of the stage and a cast of hand-drawn marionettes, The Paper Cinema told two classic tales.

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It had been engineered that Aladdin's golden lamp was placed under my seat so that I would go up on the stage at the end of the show and meet the stars, including Larry Grayson, and be presented with a prize.

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The genie will amazingly rise from his lamp and move around the auditorium as he interacts with the audience as well as the cast on stage.

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If you rub the magic lamp as it appears right in front of your nose, it will spark further visual wizardry, with the stage transformed into a 3D cave of riches where Aladdin finds his fortune.

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But my older brother James found the lamp under my seat and had to be stopped dashing to the front of the auditorium running up to the stage to claim the spoils which, unbeknown to him, was a great big doll.

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