Riedel: 'SHREK' IMPRESSES PREVIEW CROWDS

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Riedel: 'SHREK' IMPRESSES PREVIEW CROWDS

Posted: 8/20/08 at 7:16pm

BROADWAY hyenas lying in wait for DreamWorks to stumble are going to have to find some thing other than "Shrek" to gnaw on this fall.

The $20 million musical began previews last week in Seattle, and my spies report that it's nowhere near the disaster some of the blood-thirsty scavengers in this business were predicting (Hoping?)...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08202008/entertainment/theater/ogre_and_above_125226.htm

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"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

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Posted: 8/20/08 at 7:33pm

Glad to hear this. I don't like blood thirsty scavengers.

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Posted: 8/20/08 at 7:54pm

I like how he makes that comment about the blood-thirsty scavengers as if he were not one of them.

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Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:02pm

"I'm looking forward to Shrek being a big, old, awful, lousy show."
-Michael Riedel, 6/20/08

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"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

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Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:31pm

He seemed to praise it and then on the second page seemed to say bad things as well, weird!

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Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

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Posted: 8/20/08 at 9:46pm

From his description they must be easily "impressed". It sounds even worse than I feared.

"I sold my memoirs to Stephen Schwartz?"

"Strap a pair of skates on d'Arcy James, one source says, and "you'd have 'Shrek on Ice.' "

How could this article excite anyone about this show?

I can see the pull quotes now: "Hey, it ain't as bad as Little Mermaid or Tarzan!"

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PEACE.

Updated On: 8/20/08 at 09:46 PM

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Posted: 8/20/08 at 10:02pm

The cast is incredible. If I had the money I would fly to Seattle.
J Tesori
Abaire
Chester Gregory
Jen Cody
Jennifer Simard. I can't wait.
Wish it was on Broadway now.

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Posted: 8/20/08 at 10:02pm

The cast is incredible. If I had the money I would fly to Seattle.
J Tesori
Abaire
Chester Gregory
Jen Cody
Jennifer Simard. I can't wait.
Wish it was on Broadway now.
Anyone know of a cheap airfare to Seattle from NY?

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Posted: 8/20/08 at 10:23pm

$24

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Posted: 8/21/08 at 9:05am

My favorite line from his article is :

"On the other hand, a competently rendered "Shrek" is certainly more welcome than, say, the Saran-Wrapped "Little Mermaid" from director Francesca Zambello and her goofy band of European avant-garde opera designers."

They are pretty goofy.

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Posted: 8/21/08 at 9:42am

Like SALE OF TWO TITTIES, I just have absolutely no desire to see this.

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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

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Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:13am

Like SALE OF TWO TITTIES...

Um... deep?

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"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

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Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:27am

hahahahahaahha. I'm with you, BorstalBoy. Every time I read about the show, Monty Python is the first thing to pop into my head.

" Jeanine Tesori's intelligent music rewards attentive listening, though my spies lament the absence of "I'm a Believer," the Neil Diamond standard used so effectively in the movie. "

I'm a Believer? Neil Diamond? Am I the only one who remembers The Monkees? (at least he didn't say Smash Mouth)... or did Neil write the song?

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It's not impossible...

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Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:59am

Uh, yeah.

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Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:05pm

Such a pity his spies didn't get a steady diet of the familliar with their steady diet of the familliar. I imagine the tourists will feel the same.

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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

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Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:09pm

Yes, Diamond wrote it. The following is a list of Monkees hits that they did write themselves: