Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Heybeenfood
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/06
#1Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 6:52pm
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110239.html
Sieber will be perfect.
#2re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 6:57pm
Any hopes I had for this show have left with Celia Keenan-Bolger's name.
Also, with her nose.
-Benjamin
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#2re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 7:02pm
I've only heard of Celia Kenan-Bolger and Christopher Sieber, but they look like alright castings. Anyone from here been invited?
thanks,
musicalfan07
#3re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 7:08pm
Seiber is inspired casting.
I'm not too sure about Keenan-Bolger though...
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#4re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 7:21pmI guess they won't be playing up the wholte Lord Farquaad is short and overcompensating for his height...
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#5re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 7:23pmMaybe Lord Farquad will be gay AAAAND european!
-Benjamin
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#6re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 7:34pm
I can't think of anyone better than Sieber, he'll be ideal. I can just imagine...
Celia Keenan-Bogler as Fiona is just...bleh
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#7re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 7:56pmI could see her as Fiona. She has a great voice, but who knows? I'm sure they've changed a lot of stuff for the staged production. I don't see how they're going to pull of the whole dragon thing at the end. Or the various cartoon characters who would just look stupid played by actual humans (gingerbread man). I'm interested to her Tesori's tunes though.
#8re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 9:39pmSeriously?... Three movies isn't enough?
So, that was the Drowsy Chaperone. Oh, I love it so much. I know it's not a perfect show...but it does what a musical is supposed to do. It takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue. Ya know?
#9re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 10:08pmDid anyone go?
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#10re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 10:13pmOh come on! Like what, Celia could be worse than Cameron Diaz?
BillFinn
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/03
#11re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 10:28pmCelia's a versatile actress. She can pull off the comedy. It's also just a workshop for the writers/investors benefit. Not an actual production to be presented. Kerry Butler workshops shows, but doesn't necessarily mean she's asked back to star in them. With such a recognized name and guarantee money maker, they'll probably pull a "mermaid" and go with unknowns for the leading roles.
Bill Finn rocks. Woot.
#12re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 11:19pm
they'll probably pull a "mermaid" and go with unknowns for the leading roles.
Umm the only REAL complete unknown in that production is Sierra. Disney usually casts the lead as an unknown and well known Broadway actors around them.
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#13re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 11:21pmSieber will be awesome. Celia? Really? I still don't get it, but whatever.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#14re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 11:34pm
I love Celia. I think she'll be good.
Sieber will be good in the role, but Brian d'Arcy James is PERFECT for it...
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
BillFinn
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/03
#15re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/10/07 at 11:40pmPrince Eric is unknown unless you say "Stanford's boyfriend from SEX AND THE CITY." I had no clue who he was until I read his resume on Broadway.com. Him and Sierra don't have name recognition (unless you're a die-hard SATC fan, who memorized the cast list down to detail).
Bill Finn rocks. Woot.
#16re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/11/07 at 12:51am
I really wanted someone i know, anthony d'amato, to get shrek. he made it to the final callbacks, but i guess didn't get the part 
. I think celia is perfect, though.
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
#17re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/11/07 at 2:19amI've known Steve Glickman for many years and he will make a fabulous Shrek! As for Celia... She's only slated to be in it for workshops. They are talioring the role of Fiona for another, bigger-named musical theatre actress who is busy for the time being but will be available come opening night!
#18re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/11/07 at 2:24am^Kelli O'Hara?
-Benjamin
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alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#20re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/11/07 at 3:41am
Kelli O'Hara??? I rather have Celia.
Songstress, you allowed to give any hints?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
broadwayboy1017
Leading Actor Joined: 6/4/07
#21re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/11/07 at 10:40amsarah hyland is also attached to this show
#22re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/11/07 at 10:52am
I actually think Keenan-Bolger is a good fit for the role.
While I'm not at all familiar with Stephen Kramer Glickman, I thought Dan Fogler (who apparently auditioned for the project several times) would have been inspired casting for Shrek.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 8/11/07 at 10:52 AM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#23re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/11/07 at 10:58am
she looks like Fiona
Sam Mendes? I didn't know that. interesting..
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#24re: Shrek Workshop Cast Announced
Posted: 8/11/07 at 11:27amSomebody explain to me why Celia would be a bad fit for Fiona please. I really do not understand why.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
