Shrek: The Musical

[ikmbway]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 3:10pm

I was reading my steel magnolias playbill yesterday and under Jason Moore (director) (he was also director of avenue q( it says upcoming projects and one is Shrek: The Musical.It's very strange and I can't really visualize it (donkey on broadway)I guess it has to be true if it's in a playbill. It also says a 2007 debut.

sorry if this topic comes twice im not sure

[MissMonika]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 3:14pm

really? Shrek: The Musical? that should be interesting. what do you guys think?

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 3:16pm

It's been talked about a bunch of times on this board. I'm going to wait until it really gets off the ground with a solid cast and production staff before I make any assumptions.

Here's the link to the most recent thread about it.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=780859#780859

Updated On: 3/21/05 at 03:16 PM

[ikmbway]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 3:24pm

sorry didnt search for it (i thought it would be new) sorry for starting another

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 6:54pm

there making a musical for everything now. i'm not sure if it's a good idea or annoying. i guess we'll see.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 7:38pm

ugh, no.......

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 8:03pm

Yeah, I'm not going to make any assumptions about this until they really start to get underway with the production of the show.

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 8:44pm

I did a play version of the orriginal book this summer, and, with the right direction, it does work on stage.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 9:04pm

my ideal casting (yes, i'm in it... ya never know)

shrek- me (i look a good deal like the handsome version from shrek 2)
fiona- brooke tansley
donkey- corey reynolds
fairy godmother- carole shelley
prince charming- christopher sieber

Posted: 3/21/05 at 11:10pm

No! Please, no more Christopher Sieber typecasting! I'm sure he can do other things!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 11:12pm

well David Yazbeck has been tapped to do the music - so I wonder how he'll do writing for a children aimed show.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 11:13pm

i cannot see this, nor do i want to *gags*

[Sporkie]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 11:20pm

Mnnnnneeeegh. No--it's pretty cool, but it's not enough of an amazing thing. I's not like Spamalot, which was more of something starting with Amazingness-it would be starting with goodness, and overcomercialized already goodness. If you have had M and M's, yogurt, and other cheap dumb things made about you, you are so soiled you'd have to be an transcendentally amazing musical to overcome that. Shreck is too crudely commercial and icky and unmagical to make anything of quality. i can't express this very well, but it's like a McDonalds sonata or a Burger King gospel song

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 11:28pm

This is one of those things that I could see as being either really amazing and moving, or really cheesy and childish. It all depends on how they handle it and direct it. And Carole Shelley would make a great fairy god mother. :-P

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 12:16am

Is it going to be movie based or book based? That's the question.

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 1:12am

From what I hear, movie based but don't quote me on that one....

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 2:27am

"No! Please, no more Christopher Sieber typecasting! I'm sure he can do other things!"
Broadwayabridged, your wit astounds me. That might have sounded sarcastic, but I am absolutely serious. I would pay full price to see Sieber as something other than a prince! Anyway, that def made me laugh.

On a side note, I do NOT want David Yazbek to waste his time on this, nor do I ever want him to write a "kids show". Ugh.

Posted: 3/22/05 at 12:02pm

Apparently...

http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=69949

He was also Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, which is also very fairy-tale-y. Although never saw him in Chicago or Millie.

As far as Yazbek and Shrek... I also am expecting it to be the theme-park-disaster I expect from the Lord of the Rings Crapsical.

Except that with Yazbek, he might actually go for the whole pop-culture-references thing that the Shrek movies are known for and that Yazbek is so comedically good at. So for all we know, what we keep calling a "Kids show" could be a good show for everybody. That's what a good Kids Show is to me, something that is not kid-required but just kid-friendly. So hey, it could actually be decent. I more worry about having a guy in a big stupid costume, though.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 12:49pm

Sieber was also VERY princely in Triumph of Love... and in that Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen sitcom!

I guess I just consider Yazbek a great beam of hope for the musical theater, and I don't want his next project to be one I'm not looking forward to.

Guess that's a little selfish, huh?