Shrek VS Into the Woods

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 11:23pm

So here I am, watching Shrek, and it dawns on me that its the same thing as Into the Woods. Well, not exactly the same thing, but all the fairytale characters are shoved together into a masterpiece. What jolly good fun!

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 11:53pm

they are hugely different.
and Into the Woods kicks SHREK's ass any/every day.
-d.b.j-

[Plum]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 11:54pm

Putting old fairy tale characters to new uses isn't exactly a new idea- didn't Rocky and Bullwinkle have Fractured Fairy Tales?

[bta212]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 11:56pm

Gee, captain....I don't want to pile on here, but I have to say---not THAT much in common. I haven't thought about SHREK again since I saw it. Into the woods became part of my life.

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 11:57pm

Hear, hear, BTA.
it did, it did.
-d.b.j-

[bta212]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 12:01am

.....@&*! Sondheim bullies....

[Plum]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 12:33am

For some reason I find the mental image of "Sondheim bullies" hysterically funny.

[bta212]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 12:36am

Gangs of sissies in plaid shirts who intimidate people with our devastating alliteration and complicated word play.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 12:53am

You forgot internal rhymes. Mustn't forget that.

[Jon]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 7:32am

I once heard James Lapine say that the idea for INTO THE WOODS started as an idea for a musical in which characters from early TV sitcoms would interact - the Ricardos, the Cleavers, the Nelsons, the Kramdens, etc - all living in the same neighborhood.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 8:37am

I have to agree that they are not that similar.

I do enjoy both.

Do we think that Into the Woods would hold a larger place in Broadway history had it not opened the same year as Phantom?

[Plum]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 10:12am

I dunno. Act II was going to be hard for people to take no matter what year the show opened.