Change is possible, but at a great price. An Aesop: The story makes no bare-bones about how its main message is that making actual change is difficult: the genuinely good and hardworking people can only make an inch of progress, paving the way for future generations who are naively thinking they have easy solutions for complex problems.Adults Dressed as Children: The newborn Bird is depicted by dressing the full-sized Bird puppet in a bib and bonnet.Added Alliterative Appeal: The Magic Kingdom's core values are Duty and Devotion, "The 2 'D's".Adaptational Villainy: Aladdin, the Sultan, and Prince Achmed are major villains here.Adaptation Expansion: Here we see where Ja'far got the Scarab necklace, how he became Vizer, and where he got Iago.When arresting him, he takes time to make sure the Princess hasn't been harmed before explaining to her how Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse. He has a legitimate grievance against Aladdin that the latter got several of his men killed and is a menace to the commoners. The Captain of the Guard is much nicer than Razoul, if still snarky towards Ja'far.This extends even to altering the Establishing Character Moment in Aladdin, where Ja'far is genuinely shocked and appalled by the bloody Noodle Incident by which his contact obtained the other half of the necklace and the contact has to explain it's an Unusual Euphemism.
As Wicked did with the Wicked Witch of the West, Twisted portrays Ja'far as a goodhearted, sympathetic hero who was never evil to begin with.Adaptational Comic Relief: Everyone, to some degree, given the nature of the musical, but in particular Razoul/The Captain of the Guard's mild Comically Serious tendencies from Aladdin go up to eleven.The rest of the cast was impressed enough by Australian actor Robert Manion's flawless American accent that they'd randomly lapse into an Australian accent in scenes with him to try to mess him up, until director Brian Holden had to ask them to stop.
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