USA Today Reveals First Picture of d'Arcy James in SHREK — Page 3

I can't help but be somewhat nervous about this. I see it either being a masterpiece or a huge disappointment. I keep thinking of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast and....eek this could end up rather badly.

But I am going to hope for the best. I mean...with Sutton and James who can't help but hope for it to be great? :)

<-rolling his eyes at all you cynical queens.

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Also, how can you even compare the two...?

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For all of the "theme park" comments, consider this: With the state *monetarily* that Broadway was in BEFORE Disney Theatricals came in, we should be thankful that shows that cater to "theatre-ignorant tourists" exist. I don't like it either, but, like it or not these shows do serve a purpose. Now, if it comes a day that ALL shows on the Great White Way are like a Shrek, Mary Poppins or Little Mermaid then we will have a reason to be angry or jaded and bitter. However, new and inventive shows are popping up all over the place. The only difference is you might have to look a LITTLE harder to weed them out amongst the droll of "touristy" shows.

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It makes me laugh how everyone on this board is so negative lol

And about this been very commercial etc, it's not a new thing.Look back to the 40s,50s.

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I agree

The little mermaid look is awful and everyone bitched about the costumes not representing what they are supposed to be.Now with Shrek they get the costume spot on (even i was surprised) and now everyone wants it the other way

Moaning for the sake of moaning me thinks

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I actually see this show being a surprise hit. I know it all SOUNDS wrong from the get go, but I'm betting it's going to be great.

I don't think a picture of him in a costume is telling me that. It's more like a "hunch".

What I find most annoying when people criticize these sorts of things is that they just declare their dislike for, in this case, costumes...yet they don't give any sort of constructive spin on it, like how they would do it instead. Fair enough, have an opinion...but at least try and make it intellectual rather than just spitting your dummy out and complaining.

Part of me is a bit hesitant towards the very literal approach they've taken, because I'm wondering how they will do Donkey. I always pictured that they would do slightly abstract puppetry, a la Lion King...which would make the Donkey character very easily portrayed. I also pictured the 'ogre' costume to include those stilt things and an 'over the face' head/face mask...which would, among other things, make it so much easier to perform (I'm imagining that being in that much padding/make up is going to take its toll). Plus, the Dragon would make an excellent puppet.

But yeah, I'm all for this show, regardless. The whole reason I liked Shrek in the first place was because of how tongue-in-cheek it was towards Disney. So it no doubt will parody Disney shows as well as their films now.

I'm SO looking forward to the set design!

Personally I never liked the designs for the characters for Shrek. They always struck me as a bit over worked and too thought out. I know that Shrek design is based on this guy but somehow they took the fun out of it (for me at least)

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Updated On: 8/12/08 at 04:53 PM

I'm glad that they chose this route to depict Shrek, but Donkey and the Dragon are the ones I'm most worried about.

I think he looks adorable. Great job by the make up artists and the costume designers.

I wonder how long James is going to have to endure in make up on a nightly basis.

I can't wait to see how the other characters are going to turn out.

The word is that there is a double playing Ogre Fiona.....Sutton will not be in ogre make-up/costume.

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