SHREK THE MUSICAL Adds 'I'm a Believer' to the Broadway Production — Page 2

blaxx, are you talking about Sister Act or Shrek? Because with Sister Act it's not like they didn't try to use the popular music from the film. They just couldn't get the rights to it due to the fact Motown wouldn't give it to them. Shrek on the other hand, clearly is clearly using some of the music in the film that was popular. The "Welcome to Duloc" song right before, what's up Duloc is a good example as well as the usage of I'm a believer for the exit music.

I do think that this will be added to the show more along the lines of the same way Bright Side Of Life was at the end of Spamalot. No, I don't mean an entire theatre sing along of the song. I do mean an encore type thing after the bows are finished.

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It is still curtain music. No one sings it. I was there today.

Yeah, this will save it.

I heard it's simply going to be the curtain call finale and nothing more. It's not being added in as some large score change, just added to curtain call.

And, could we stop damning this show to hell for one second?

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Updated On: 10/1/09 at 01:06 AM

I personally love the show as you can clearly tell from the avatar and signature. The show has really great music and truly exceeded all my expectations of how it was going to be. The cast is pretty flawless and perfect in my mind, and I personally hope it lasts as long as it can, which hopefully is a lot longer than most think it will.

Personally, I think Dreamworks will let it keep running until they have the tour in order, which I'd assume is sometime around March. That's my sad, but grim looking thought, however I hope it runs longer.

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"Personally, I think Dreamworks will let it keep running until they have the tour in order, which I'd assume is sometime around March. That's my sad, but grim looking thought, however I hope it runs longer."

I don't like to see shows close, and I certainly didn't hate Shrek, but the constant ticket discounting promotions indicate they are desperate to sell tickets. And judging by the current grosses, I don't know if this show will survive until March.

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My prediction- within ten years, you won't be able to drive ten miles without seeing at least one high school or regional Shrek. It's going to be the next "we have to do this show to show off our special effects budget" like Beauty and the Beast was five years ago.

I like Shrek a lot as well. However, it wont last past Feb or maybe even Jan. I also think that ITH could go down in Jan as well.

I just have no idea why they did this...

Sorry, gotta say it, this show was doomed from the moment they chose Tesori over O'Keefe & Benjamin to write the score. The sense of humor is just totally wrong for the characters based on how they were written in the movie. Anyone who's heard O'Keefe & Benjamin's Shrek demos can attest to their being superior to Tesori's music for Shrek.

"I don't know, I would say a lot of the blame lies with the book. Although 'Fire Hot Lady' is vastly to superior to 'Donkey Pot Pie'- AND it would probably have eliminated most, if not all, the issues with that scene."

Donkey Pot Pie is one of the worst songs ever. God, you'd think that would've gotten cut during previews, huh? The book is awful too but the score really stuck out to me as A) Not being written in the correct vein of humor considering the source material and B) Just painfully bad.

I think the score is superior to the book and direction. The later is the where the whole production really failed in my eyes. Just a conceptual mess.

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