“Aida” at Middlesex County Plays in the Park

This high energy, romantic, pop/rock epic won four Tony Awards when Walt Disney’s Hyperion Theatrical Group first brought it to Broadway in 2000. The show features music by pop legend Sir Elton John and lyrics by Sir Tim Rice, who penned the words to such Broadway blockbusters as pJesus Christ Superstarp and pEvitap. After their successful partnership creating the music for Disney’s pThe Lion Kingp, the mouse house tapped them to create a Broadway musical for grown-ups, and pAidapwas born. Set in ancient Egypt, pElton John and Tim Rice’s Aidap is the story of an enslaved Nubian princess, her conflicted Egyptian captor, and a forbidden love that rocks the ancient world to its core. (Rated PG)