Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions

[PiraguaGuy2]

Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#1

Posted: 6/13/09 at 3:03pm

A video made by the cast members of "Shrek" that was shown to the Tonys audience during commercials...hilarious!

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[IdinaBellFoster]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#2

Posted: 6/13/09 at 3:08pm

The 'Aquarius' and 'Electricity' parts were the best.

I wish they had showed this on the actual broadcast

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[legally_popular]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#2

Posted: 6/13/09 at 3:08pm

That was one of my favorite things from the commercial breaks. I just wish they had the whole thing on youtube.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#3

Posted: 6/13/09 at 3:13pm

Yeah, i'd love to see everything us television viewers missed!

[CyCoSpAz2]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#4

Posted: 6/13/09 at 3:18pm

"Yeah, i'd love to see everything us television viewers missed!"

Does this include wanting to see the extra minute of the Mamma Mia tour cast repeating the lines "see that girl, watch that scene, diggin the dancing queen" xD

[heo1128]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#5

Posted: 6/13/09 at 3:20pm

Haha hilarious! Why wasn't this aired instead of the Mamma Mia tour?

[KChenowethfan]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#6

Posted: 6/13/09 at 4:06pm

I loved the little videos during the commercial breaks. I am glad they do something interesting for those who attend.

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[dramamama611]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#7

Posted: 6/13/09 at 4:10pm

Thanks for posting...that was GREAT! I enjoyed it more than when I saw Shrek!

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[WishingOnlyWounds2]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#8

Posted: 6/13/09 at 4:19pm

HAH! That was great! But what was the Peter Pan, dwarf, plant girl thing singing around 43 seconds in?

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[Mattbrain]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#9

Posted: 6/13/09 at 4:24pm

That was one of the cobblers' elves and she was singing Little People from Les Miserables.
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[legally_popular]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#10

Posted: 6/13/09 at 4:31pm

My favorites are the 3 pigs as the 3 Billys and the wolf singing "I Feel Pretty." Genius!

Does anyone remember what the other characters sang? I know Haven started it off, but I forgot the song. And it showed more of Noah Rivera as the white rabbit singing In the Heights. I forget what else.

[Anakela]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#11

Posted: 6/13/09 at 5:00pm

Haven's "Spoonful of Sugar" and the first shot of the white rabbit doing In the Heights are the only two things missing from the start of that video.

[CapnHook]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#12

Posted: 6/13/09 at 5:13pm

Now THAT is funny. They need to do THIS stuff on the telecast.

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[legally_popular]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#13

Posted: 6/13/09 at 5:15pm

Haven's "Spoonful of Sugar" and the first shot of the white rabbit doing In the Heights are the only two things missing from the start of that video.


Oh, I thought there was more. Good to know.

[E.Davis]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#14

Posted: 6/13/09 at 6:12pm

I loved it, who is the person in the witch's hat that sang first...On the telecast i noticed some new fairy tale creatures. Like the girl singing legally blonde and the Jack frost character from the telecast. Are they in the show?

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[Kad]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#15

Posted: 6/13/09 at 6:26pm

I believe that those are swings. If an understudy usually in the chorus goes on, they take their place in the chorus- but everybody in the cast is a unique fairy tale character, even the swings have a unique creature that only they play.

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[E.Davis]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#16

Posted: 6/13/09 at 6:34pm

I was just like...wow that is new. I did like them I still can't figure out what it is.

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[colorandlight2]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#17

Posted: 6/13/09 at 6:36pm

I agree with everyone here! This is what the people who actually watch the Tony Awards want to see. Honestly, CBS!

[jacobsnchz14]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#18

Posted: 6/13/09 at 7:44pm

Hopefully it will be on the Shrek website or on their YouTube account.

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#19

Posted: 6/13/09 at 8:19pm

They might have trouble getting permission to post the video with all of those songs being used if it wasn't a part of the initial contracts.

[SharpCookies]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#20

Posted: 6/13/09 at 9:56pm

That's HILARIOUS. Just, wow. This sort of stuff would make the Tonys more interesting to watch on tv.

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#21

Posted: 6/13/09 at 10:34pm

That "Peter Pan, dwarf, plant girl thing" is Jen Cody, one of the FUNNIEST performers EVER to hit Broadway.

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[taylorPHENOMENON2]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#22

Posted: 6/13/09 at 10:51pm

Does this include wanting to see the extra minute of the Mamma Mia tour cast repeating the lines "see that girl, watch that scene, diggin the dancing queen" xD

ABSOLUTELY. My favorite performance of the night.

[E.Davis]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#23

Posted: 6/13/09 at 10:57pm

She is the Shoe Makers Elf, and yes too funny!!

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[pli1018]

re: Tony Awards Segment: Shrek Auditions#24

Posted: 6/14/09 at 12:24am

These are hilarious! I wish Haven's "Spoonful of Sugar" was up somewhere. Her Sugarplum Fairy is hysterical.