Shrek on the View...- Page 2

[inick122492]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 7:34pm

I saw it!

[steven22]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 7:36pm

found it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK_OJjWpncM&feature=channel

[steven22]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 7:46pm

and FYI for anyone that cares:
02.17.09: Ben Crawford will be playing the title role in SHREK today, Tuesday the 17th & Wednesday the 18th for both shows.

[EvanK]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 7:46pm

I thought that was a fantastic performance. Seriously, what were you expecting? Farting and Burping is essential to the story of Shrek.

Get off your high horses, stop being prude, and get over it. It takes real maturity to see the fun in it, if your mature, you can handle it. You can make it what you want it to be, take it for what it is, and really.. grow up. Updated On: 2/17/09 at 07:46 PM

[iamchanging9]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:00pm

I loved how Joy basically said she has no interest in seeing the show at the end of the show hahhaha

Updated On: 2/17/09 at 08:00 PM

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:03pm

This performance alone shows how incredibly uneven the score is. GOT YOU BEAT is terrible. FREAK FLAG is cute, fun, and witty.

They should have just done FREAK FLAG and WHO I'D BE.

[AUtahFann]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:27pm

<< I haven't seen the show, but from that performance it looks rediculously dumb, and Sutton Foster deserves much better >>

She does. I was embarrassed for her.

Updated On: 2/17/09 at 08:27 PM

[nydirector2]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:31pm

No wonder no-one is coming to Broadway. This is what two of our most talented performers are doing? It was like watching Lawrence(or is it Laurence?) Olivier in the Jazz Singer or any Shakespearean actor stuck doing a Star Trek series.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:38pm

Not a fan of the farting song, but "Freak Flag" wasn't so bad. Didn't know J Tart could sing that high. Wow.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:40pm

If you people stopped judging a show by a frickin' TV performance and actually saw it, you'd realize that it has heart, a sweet story, and some quality songs.

But no. Let's immediately dismiss something because it's based on a movie. As long as the movie isn't Grey Gardens, Billy Elliot, 9 to 5, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

You know what? We'd all like to see more "original" (whatever that means - My Fair Lady, Oliver, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy...all based on previous works) shows on Broadway. But when a perfectly acceptable show is immediately taken out back and shot by the armchair critics here because it's based on a successful movie? Ridiculous.

You want to save Broadway? Start by not plugging holes in every show you deem "crass". A theatre that isn't vacant is a theatre that isn't vacant.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:45pm

What's up with the attitudes?

So what if you like something that other people don't? That's no reason to turn on the attacks. I'm sure there are things that I like and you don't. You guys talk about maturity but the whole "there's something wrong with you if you don't like this" way of thinking is pretty much the opposite of mature.

I was thoroughly unimpressed with the clips I saw on the View this morning. Different opinions are what make the world goes 'round.

Deal with it.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:47pm

All I'm saying is people should give shows CHANCES. I've heard many people wish for it to close, when the same posters have expressed concern for Broadway's future.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:48pm

i'm excited to see this.. i have tickets for march 15th.. also how long does it take for brian to come out at the stagedoor after a sunday show??

[sally1112]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:50pm

Evank, I agree. I read these posts, and then watched the clips on Youtube expecting to see something horrible.
The numbers were cute, fun, and enjoyable...not amazing Broadway industry changing numbers, but not everything can be!

[Eris0303]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:53pm

PG...my post wasn't directed at you. I think we were writing at the same time.

Mine was directed at the people who don't know the difference between your and you're and accuse other people of being immature.

[Parks]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 9:04pm

I thought the performances were great!! Can't wait to see it again! I want to show the video to my roommate, but I don't want to ruin Sutton's... talents... for him before he sees the show. I don't care that I'm in college--I had tears in my eyes the first time I saw the show during that number. It cracked me up!

It's such a cute and fun show--I hope it runs for a long time!

[cglaid]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 9:08pm

i'm excited to see this.. i have tickets for march 15th.. also how long does it take for brian to come out at the stagedoor after a sunday show??

He doesn't come out between shows and since Shrek just added a Sunday evening I guess it just depends on which one you're going to. I think it took about a half an hour for him to come out when I saw it.

[GIZMO2]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 9:38pm

This performance was FUN. The songs, while they could have been better (a.k.a., more serious), were obviously chosen for their target audience -- which is NOT most of us on this board.

I totally enjoyed SHREK. Even the farts. I never thought I would, but I did. It mustered up the 21st-Century inner child in me, I suppose. It's a great musical, and I'm so glad they made it on The View. They need all the attention and support they can get. There's a whole lot of families with kids out there that will LOVE this show!

P.S. -- Joy wrote AN ENTIRE BOOK about farts, so of course she's going to see/love SHREK!

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 10:35pm

"I think I got you beat" is a low point in musical theater history...

[show lover]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 11:28pm

You know what bothers me about this message board. You cannot have a say without people cutting you down and saying you are trying to ruin Broadway.

Let me tell you I have been going to plays here in Chicago and New York for many many years. I do not buy cheaper seats or discount tickets. I pay full price and support the theater. I support Broadway Cares the whole year and when Christmas time comes I make sure I have some plays to see so I can support Broadway cares again in the theaters by buying posters etc.

I have a right more than anyone to have a say of what I feel.
Wait till you New Yorkers see Dirty Dancing. Great movie when it came out BAD play.
When I pay $125.00 a ticket or more I want to see theater that is good.
Good theater like Jersey Boys I have seen a few times and Wicked also a few times.
Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens etc.
Also people who complain about children in theaters kicking the chair and talking.
God Bless the kids who grow up to adults and go to the theater because they remember the play they were taken to when they were young.
I went oncew to see Peter Pan knew kids would be there they kicked the chair and talked but the smiles on their faces made me think of when I went as a kid and you know what I was a kid again and loved it as much as they did.
When Peter flies through the audience at the end I was ooohhhh and ahhhhhh with the kids and tears camed to my eyes.
I just wish this message board had more grown ups on it and not so many whinners.
Sorry I talked to long but my German temper had to blow sometime

Thanks and God love Broadway and the theater......

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 11:32pm

I think "I Think I Got You Beat" is one of the better songs in the show. This is the song that is most specific to the tone of the show. While I like "Who'd I Be," it's sort of just another bland ballad.

[arch_animal90]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 11:44pm

i like that song! i really wanna see shrek but im hoping to see it with sutton. does anyone know how long exactly she is planned to stay?
I thought the performance was great! Im hoping Shrek actually last more than a year...thatd be awesome!

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 2/17/09 at 11:46pm

Amen, Evan & Piragua!

[skb2010]

Posted: 2/18/09 at 12:15am

Daniel Brubaker? What? A kid from my school is on Broadway?

Good job Whoopi.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 2/18/09 at 12:57am

I'm upset they cut out Haven's part.