SHREK The Musical- January 1, 2009 8:00 PM

So I finally saw Shrek and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I went in fully prepared for understudies but my one thing is I really wanted to see Haven. I walk in and of course the only thing on the understudy board says "At this performance the roles usually played by Haven Burton..." I got really upset but if there is one thing I have learned it's never to be disappointed by an understudy. Sure enough the show starts and Haven comes on stage, I double took but I would know her from a mile away let a lone two rows. She was in, I'm not sure what was with the understudy board.

Anyway, I was in Row C (which is the second row) Centre Orchestra, aisle. Which was a great seat. The stage wasn't too high.

On to the performances...

Brian D'Arcy James was phenomenal, he was great! He played it so much like the movie I can't really pick something out that is so much special but he was hilarious, and serious, and his voice is great!

Daniel Breaker, again played it so much like that movie that again I can't pick anything that special out. But he had me laughing a lot. He had a great voice and was just phenomenal.

Sutton Foster. I saw her as Inga and didn't find anything that special about her performance, and didn't see what the big deal about her was. Well, I absolutely loved her in this. She wasn't phoning in at all and was just amazing. She also had me laughing out loud and was just so fun to watch.

Chris Seiber was fantastic. At the end of "Things are looking up in Duloc" his play on Defying Gravity killed me. I loved all the Broadway references. He was very funny and had an amazing voice.

John Tartaglia was very funny, I was annoyed he didn't get more stage time but when he was on he was great!

The rest of the cast was also phenomenal!

The score... I didn't go in expecting that much and I think because of that I was pleasantly surprised. I really liked it and I do have songs stuck in my head!

The dancing is what really surprised me, it was absolutely great!

At the stage door, every one came out. Every one, including Sutton which really surprised me. Every one also signed and took pics!

Overall, I really liked this show and I would recommend it.

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Updated On: 1/2/09 at 01:20 AM

Another Haven fan!

EvanK, you stole the words right out of my mouth!

I'm glad to hear some postive news! I'm such a Sutton fan, I hate to think of her "phoning" in.

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I have not seen it, but as I stated, it may have been the worst to you, but not to the OP. It's still just an opinion.

how are your little kiddies at "13" doing?

Are they sad they have to go back to preschool now, with the show FINALLY closing?

They were in a broadway show. I think they've got you beat. I have no desire to ever see 13, but they are young, dedicated, and I am sure worked hard. Get over yourself.

Hooray for SHREK turned 13 threads!

I too was at the 8pm show on the 1st and was surprisingly blown away. They were all incredibly phenomenal. I can't pick a single stand-out star.

And, again, I too was at the stage door! It was amazing to be able to meet them all. They were all so sweet and genuine.

The show was entertaining and, for the time I was sitting in that theatre, I really was not worrying about anything else going on outside of it. Isn't that the true purpose?

Now for Liza tomorrow night.. :)

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I had seen the show early on in previews and I will say that I did like what I was seeing. I saw it just a few days ago because I was craving me some Shrek. I was also curious about what the new changes were that they made between when I saw it in previews and when I saw it after it had opened.

Now, granted I knew that when I saw it during previews I knew that they were going to make changes. But, as far as I was concerned what I was seeing could have been the final product and I would have walked out the theatre more then thrilled. That was, however, until I saw it after it had opened. I walked out of the theatre more then thrilled and had an amazing night at the theatre. To me with all that is going on with the ensemble and all the fairy tale creatures going on I noticed some small minor things each time. I feel like ( at least to me) that this is the kind of show that I can see again and notice more and more things with the ensemble each time I see it.

I must say that due to the fact that when I am in a musical I am ususally in the ensemble a fair amount of the time. So, when I am watching a show I like to focus on the ensembles and not just the leads. I find it more interesting some of the time.

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thechaleston you should go in to a corner and drink a juice box.

can someone explain how the chorus of the dragon works? Do they all sing in tandum or does each girl sing a line solo?

Once again I find Winston3's posting to be a mess of jumbled logic, bad spelling, sentence fragments and lack of punctuation. I have a very difficult time trying to comprehend his ideas.

This is a person who plans to teach English if he ever gets out of college? Heaven forfend!

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Updated On: 1/3/09 at 03:42 PM

"TheCharleston, get off your high horse and realize that your not the one who has the power to say that it is a fact that something is good and something isn't. No one here does because it is called an OPINION. Which, by they way. A great thing about an opinion is that it can never be wrong. You just saying that someone's opinion is wrong just makes you look like a pompous tool. Now, if that is what you intended to look like then god help you and more power to you. But, I doubt that that is what you intended."

your SHOULD be you're

"by they way" -- I think you meant THE way

there shouldn't be a period after "by they way"

no comma needed after "Now"

"god" should be God (proper noun)

no need for the comma after "But"

you generally shouldn't start most sentences with the word "But"



"I NEVER said that I wanted to teach English. I don't even want to be a teacher. And, it's a message board not an essay contest."


no need for the comma after "And"

don't start sentences with "And" (same as unwritten "But" rule)

there SHOULD be some sort of seperation (comma, perhaps?) between "board" and "not"


Who was your English teacher in middle school? Are you even in middle school yet? Are you in "13" ??

Notice how he/she brings up '13' yet again.

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