Just be thankful that they AREN'T doing parts 2 and 3 on stage..especially since that would mean Sutton in the ogre Fiona costume for 90% of the show. I prefer the human version.
I'm actually slightly looking forward to this...although I wish Broadway would stop it with the film adaptations. Adapt more novels if you must, but PLLLLEASE try to be original! The two upcoming exceptions would be Hunchback and Princess Bride which I cannot wait to see.
I'm waiting to form my opinion on this. I honestly enjoyed the first Shrek movie... I mean, it could be really great... especially with the creative team they've got behind it.
popular_elphie, why do you say Sutton Foster needs to stay with a show for more than a year? She was in Drowsy for a year, Little Women for it's entire run and Millie for almost two years . . .
"two upcoming exceptions would be Hunchback and Princess Bride which I cannot wait to see."
Hunchback is nowhere near confirmed aside from Stephen Schwartz's recent comment; I was under the impression that James Lapine fell out with Disney at some point and, given that he wrote the book for the stage version, it might be very difficult to get it off the ground again. They could re-direct it, sure, and reviews of the Berlin production all thought the book was the weakest aspect, but they'd have to rewrite the whole thing as well to get Lapine's involvement totally off the project (and part of what made Glockner so special were the moving cubes etc. - whoever directed would almost certainly have to reconceive the staging to an extent).
I thought Princess Bride fell apart when Guettel and Goldman disagreed over the project?
On another note, I'm sure I'd read somewhere on here that whoever's producing the English language version of Kristina Fran Duvemala had an option on the Broadway Theatre after Colour Purple finishes. Dreamworks could probably buy them out or just wait for the show to inevitably flop (as marvellous and awe-inspiring as Kristina is, it's never going to be a commercial success), but if it IS true I'd guess they wouldn't definitely be opening Shrek in November.
I do find it somewhat ironic that a film that went out of its way to make fun of musicals is being turned into one, but hey, if Tesori turns out a good score it'll be at least worth the purchase of a CD.
