The new Shrek musical is...bad

Shrek here! I will say the photo with the unpainted skin/ ear from the revamp is an audience photo from a stage flub. Unfortunate but not the norm. Also venue prices are not something we control. Some venues charge as little as 30, and some for more than I’d like people to spend. Either way I still appreciate you making it out to see the show, and I hope that some of you guys come and visit us in the swamp! We are working hard out there.

Sully: Shrek the Musical is pretty good. Schaffrillas: YOU WHAT?!

Build A Wall was a genuinely good song about Shrek reverting back to his old ways after being abandoned by Fiona. Its a shame they got rid of it, it had some of the biggest and most raw emotion in the entire show

Donkey’s costume being a hoodie, shorts, and hat really got me. My school did Shrek this year, and our costume was a full body suit that changed the actors figure, and was so hot to wear there was secret pockets for ice packs. And it was someone jobs to run back and forth to change out the ice packs. Other then Donkey, our Shrek had a fat suit, face and hands prosthetics, Farquad walked on his knees, we bought another productions Dragon and fixed her up. Our set had 4 huge fake trees on wheels that have the illusion of the character walking and changing locations. I thought it was so crazy how a high school production was better then a professional one

I find it funny that they replaced Baby Bear with a teddy bear because they didn't want to hire a child actor, but the funny thing is, is that Baby Bear is usually portrayed by an adult actress in most professional productions.

When the producers said "this is what we intended for the original Broadway production" what they really meant was "the original Broadway production was the Broadway show with the highest budget ever until the Spider-Man musical broke that record, and we would have made so much more money from our investment if we were frugal"

I did this musical in highschool and even WE had a giant dragon puppet.

The redditor who wrote "A picture is worth a thousand words... Most of them swears" has won my respect.

My school recently did a Shrek musical. I worked on it behind the scenes and when I tell you it had *SO* much more effort put into it, I mean it. A bunch of high schoolers working for free in school for multiple months vs BROADWAY PRODUCERS and we still did so much better.

I appreciate how you don't just rag on the musical and the actors — you actually examine the root cause (the producers/budget) and repeatedly explain for non in-the-know people why this is happening, and that it's NOT the actors' fault. It's too easy to blame the actors but like most things, this is more nuanced than that. I know this is like, a low bar for doing your due diligence, but I appreciate that. And as someone who watched the play at a local community theater, their set design WAS better and they actually did have a dragon puppet and kid Fiona! The only thing I personally remember aging poorly (or just not at all honestly) was some jokes about the wolf being trans (and uses slurs) that were cut post-2018 productions anyway. Anyway, my favorite bit they added in the musical is 1. they made it to Shrek's parents kicked him out as a kid so he had more in common with Fiona, which was very cute, and 2. Lord Farquad was extremely heavily implied to be not attracted to women at all and I'd just using it for a political power play (and then he planned to behead Fiona) which is definitely a cool perspective that I think makes his demise much more satisfying. Also, he would not stop messing with the audience and doing these elaborate fourth wall improvisational sketches. It was great. Highly recommend community theater Shrek.

This musical feels similar to the Willy Wonka experience Glasgow.

There's NO way this is real. They have to be trolling. It's like a bad middle school production of Shrek. Whoever was in charge must've been smoking something STRONG lmao

So, the funniest thing is that: i work at a news station and we got some ads for "Shrek the Musical" coming to our city and i was so confused cause all the spots are just the logo with music over it and the show dates. Which i thought was weird, cause most musicals that are advertised on air have like... clips from the tour to show "hey, this is what the show looks like". I guess i know why theyre marketing it like that now

SULLY TALKING ABOUT MUSICALS??? UM, YES PLEASE??

we watched the 2008 musical in class randomly when i was like, 11 because a nearby school was doing a play for it i CRIED and had to get walked out by a teacher when lord farquad came on because the kid playing him had such terrible makeup and wig design it freaked me out

FYI for any fans, if a producer, director, or writer uses the terms “reimagining, modern audience, or remake” BIG RED FLAG. 🚩

nobody tell Schaffrillas what Sully said about Shrek the Musical

Making Farquaad not short was a big mistake. Completely misses the point of the character. I saw the UK tour of Shrek months ago and they did the same thing to Farquaad there. The rest of the costumes where better though.

I remember seeing Shrek the musical at my older cousin's highschool. I was little at the time but I feel like I remember the HIGHSCHOOL production being more polished than some of those costumes. Especially Shrek, the actor for it shaved his head if I remember.

"Sutton Foster as Fiona" I... what. Did I just hear that?