#76
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:44pm
So you've never actually seen this show that you have devoted your current existence to?
#77
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:50pm
"Devoted"? Why, because I like a new show coming in?
The nerve of me!!
The nerve of me!!
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Updated On: 12/14/08 at 09:50 PM
#78
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:52pm
How do you know that you like it if you haven't seen it? That's like saying I like shark (as a food) even though I haven't tried it, but I have heard good things and it looks tasty.... sorry but that just doesn't work
Updated On: 12/14/08 at 09:52 PM
#79
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:54pm
Haven't seen it LIVE! Did you read where I said that I saw a video?
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#80
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:54pm
You'd freak out if someone started bashing Shrek based on the same videos you've seen. You'd likely say: "You have to see the whole thing to judge". Same applies to you.
#81
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:56pm
Really? Do I have prior offenses to make you assume that I would do that?
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#82
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:57pm
I want to see this so bad, more now that I see its getting such good reviews. I was passing by and saw the red carpet or i guess green carpet lol Couldn't really see much all I got to see was the back of Cameron Diaz's head, Cheyenne Jackson and I think it was Alicia Silverstone but I could be wrong. Can't wait to see it! I was wondering how someone gets tickets for an opening show?
#83
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:57pm
That's what we are saying! You haven't seen it live, how can you say that you like it.
#84
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:58pm
what's with the reviews so far? why are they taking so unusually long to come out?
#85
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:58pm
I assumed that TimeSquare3 was just really interested in the production and hopes to see it someday, and so wishes it success? I love Broadway musicals although I've only been to New York once because I'm not exactly a millionaire, but I still support Broadway theatre from a distance.
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#86
Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:59pm
You can distinguish liking or not liking something from a video. I thought people were all about filming shows to get people more interested? How is the possible if you can't judge from a video?
Same with me Scmerg, I've only seen four shows in New York but see tours when ever they come through.
Same with me Scmerg, I've only seen four shows in New York but see tours when ever they come through.
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Updated On: 12/14/08 at 09:59 PM
#87
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:07pm
A mixed (?) from Talkin Broadway's Matthew Murray
Shrek the Musical, the adaptation of the 2001 Dreamworks film that just opened at the Broadway, is the best animated-film-to-stage transfer since Beauty and the Beast.
Shrek the Musical, the adaptation of the 2001 Dreamworks film that just opened at the Broadway, is the best animated-film-to-stage transfer since Beauty and the Beast.
Updated On: 12/14/08 at 10:07 PM
#88
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:15pm
Got home from opening night a little while ago. I'll have a full review posted tonight.
I loved it!
I loved it!
#89
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:17pm
My two favorite observations from the Talkin' Broadway review:
"While this locked-gaze fidelity results in a live show every bit as vivid and enjoyable as the movie, it’s not searing theatre. It’s hardly even imaginative. It’s hilarious where the movie was hilarious, touching where it was touching, gross where it was gross. But it takes nothing appreciably further."
And especially:
" As Pinocchio cries once he’s been infected by Shrek’s contagious sense of self: “I’m wood! I’m good! Get used to it!” Such an exclamation is equally appropriate for Shrek the Musical itself."
"While this locked-gaze fidelity results in a live show every bit as vivid and enjoyable as the movie, it’s not searing theatre. It’s hardly even imaginative. It’s hilarious where the movie was hilarious, touching where it was touching, gross where it was gross. But it takes nothing appreciably further."
And especially:
" As Pinocchio cries once he’s been infected by Shrek’s contagious sense of self: “I’m wood! I’m good! Get used to it!” Such an exclamation is equally appropriate for Shrek the Musical itself."
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#90
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:18pm
I hope I can see this on our next school trip. The teacher usually chooses fun & happy shows to go to.
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#92
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:19pm
#93
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:19pm
http://www.didhelikeit.com/shows/shrek.php
Updated On: 12/14/08 at 10:19 PM
#94
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:22pm
#95
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:24pm
The New York Times (with Ben Brantley) is Mixed-to-Negative:
' “Shrek,” for the record, is not bad. The maiden Broadway venture of DreamWorks Theatricals (a stage-oriented arm of the company that made the movie), in association with Neal Street Productions, it is definitely a cut above the most recent offerings from its creators’ direct competitor in cartoon-inspired musicals, Walt Disney. Unlike that company’s “Tarzan” and “Little Mermaid,” “Shrek” has the virtues of a comprehensible plot and identifiable characters. And as designed by Tim Hatley, whose set captures some of the feral majesty of Steig’s original drawings, the show isn’t the eyesore that Disney’s fish story is.
But “Shrek” does not avoid the watery fate that commonly befalls good cartoons that are dragged into the third dimension. What seems blithe and fluid on screen becomes lumbering when it takes on the weight of solid human flesh.'
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/theater/reviews/15shrek.html
' “Shrek,” for the record, is not bad. The maiden Broadway venture of DreamWorks Theatricals (a stage-oriented arm of the company that made the movie), in association with Neal Street Productions, it is definitely a cut above the most recent offerings from its creators’ direct competitor in cartoon-inspired musicals, Walt Disney. Unlike that company’s “Tarzan” and “Little Mermaid,” “Shrek” has the virtues of a comprehensible plot and identifiable characters. And as designed by Tim Hatley, whose set captures some of the feral majesty of Steig’s original drawings, the show isn’t the eyesore that Disney’s fish story is.
But “Shrek” does not avoid the watery fate that commonly befalls good cartoons that are dragged into the third dimension. What seems blithe and fluid on screen becomes lumbering when it takes on the weight of solid human flesh.'
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/theater/reviews/15shrek.html
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Updated On: 12/14/08 at 10:24 PM
#96
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:27pm
Glad to see Foster's getting good notices. It seems with every show, Brantley likes Foster more and more. Wouldn't be surprised if she did do a revival of Once Upon a Mattress, and Brantley would swoon over her in his next review.
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#97
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:27pm
Well I wouldn't say he loved it, but I wouldn't call it a paen either. Thoroughly mixed.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
#100
Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:29pm
Brantley gave a NEGATIVE review?? Who didn't see that one coming?
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