Shrek Design

[esparza 333]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 5:23pm

I am very curious how this show will be done. I could see it being brilliant design wise. I am imagining how the makeup set and costume will be done. It could really be awesome. Unless of course they make it super complicated like little mermaid which looked more like an art gallery. Your thoughts?

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 5:35pm

They were very careful about not giving a single thing away at the recent audience preview in Seattle. Even Chris Sieber got a nasty look from Jason Moore when he started to explain his costume as "a contraption."

[BwayBoundJoe]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 5:45pm

i'd love to see how sutton is to change from green to normal in two seconds...

[BwayBoundJoe]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 5:45pm

Sorry...double post

Updated On: 7/14/08 at 05:45 PM

[Wildcard]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 5:47pm

Fiona wears a green tshirt (a la Flounder) and Shrek ears when she is an ogre. During the transformation, the shirt unfolds (a la Effie White) into a full-on Princess Fiona dress!





Just kidding

[shh282]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 5:49pm

I wouldn't be surprised if they used magnets for Sutton a la LBB in Omigod you guys.

[Tag]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 5:54pm

The book has been rewritten and now Fiona does not transform. They are borrowing this idea from The Little Mermaid.

[little_sally]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 6:33pm

I hope that's not true Tag.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 6:43pm

I love me some Brian D'arcy James and think he's brilliant, but I just don't see how this is going to turn out well for him. I Just think he's gonna look a hot mess. But at least he'll sound good.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 7:17pm

SPOILER...for those 1.5 of you who haven't seen the film...

I may be the only one who thinks this...but I felt the film Shrek suddenly cheapened when Fiona turned out to be an ogre as well. It's means so much more when they loved each other as they were.

So if the new changes are in effect it'll throw a nice twist in. :)

[Tag]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 7:32pm

I was joking, to clarify.

[MerMaggieGalinda]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 7:33pm

I'm wondering how they are going to do the transformation, I imagine they will use a double or something.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 7:38pm

Maybe they'll do some trick like the Beast transformation from Beauty and the Beast.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 7:43pm

Magnets were not created by the costumer from Legally Blonde. And besides, Foster used them before in Drowsy...

[esparza 333]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 9:31pm

I do not know about the transformation but I know that Chris Sieber will vbe on his knees as Lord Faarquad. He told me that the costume is built up to his knees and he has thick knee pads he will were throughout the show.

[esparza 333]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 9:31pm

I do not know about the transformation but I know that Chris Sieber will vbe on his knees as Lord Faarquad. He told me that the costume is built up to his knees and he has thick knee pads he will were throughout the show.

[Boq101]

Posted: 7/14/08 at 10:16pm

I just love how after Wicked, anything with a green character has to be on Bway.

As if the only thing keeping Shrek and Young Frankenstein was broadway's prejudice against green people.

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 7/15/08 at 1:50am

Magnets were not created by the costumer from Legally Blonde.


NO WAY!

[outdamnwench]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 3:12pm

I don't think that shh282 was crediting the designer from LB with the creation of magnets in costumes, no need to attack, they were just offering an example.

[yukino]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 6:31pm

yeah... i was thinking a beauty and the beast kinda thing... i mean transformation wise, it's very similar except that the beast turns in a human in beauty and the beast... lol

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 6:57pm

Bummer Tag. Cause you were on to something.

[outdamnwench]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 7:09pm

I heard somewhere that the idea for the set design was trees that grow leaves as the show moves along and sets that are never stagnant.

[commasplice]

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

My question is, will Brian d'Arcy James have that moustache I've seen in pictures the last few months, or is he going to shave that off? (Because on a purely superficial level, I am not a fan.)

[rose_pearl]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 11:25pm

^ Heh, I'm pretty sure I saw that it was shaved off in those [tos] first preview pics. Thank the lord!

[B3TA07]

Posted: 7/21/08 at 12:50am

I hope it's shaved off