Yahoo! News: "You can be among the first 'to meet the cast and creative team, read updated news about the show, download wallpapers and icons, and hear original music by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori,' according to a statement. Visit www.skrekthemusical.com.
In addition to the website proper, the there is also a comic (but real) social networking site for theatre fans, Shrekster (a spin on Friendster or Facebook) at shrekster.com."
3 comments:
WOW, well at least it is not Disney. I wish Broadway would support more innovative and original theatre instead of recreating movies and even to some extent books onstage. To a degree books on stage are cool because they are generally more unknown and hidden, but when main stream movies are made into musicals i just think "really?" the only reason someone considered making a musical is because it was a highly successful movie so the audience has already "been there, done that" i just miss creative plots.
Now who ever said 'Shrek: the Musical' was in it for the money, huh? I'm all for theatre for the sake of simple pleasure but it saddens me when companies make it blatantly obvious that it's all about the money. It's one thing for a fan to create this site but for the show to do, you might as well put dollar signs in Donkey's eyes.
I have seen Shrek on broadway and
unlike a lot of the dinsey musicals out there which tend to be carbon copies of the movies they are based on, Shrek actually adds in a lot of original stuff.
They added in backstory about the characters and give more substance and details to some of the supporting characters as well.
Even though Shrek is based on a movie they were able to take it to a new, innovative and original level.
and....
In defense of musicals in it for the money...they have to make a profit somehow, so why not something like Shrekster to advertise instead of raising ticket prices.
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