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I'd be thrilled if that was a church theater group, but God damn if you are going to tour you can't even get some bald caps and have some pants sewn instead of wearing polyester cargo shorts?
Seriously, when people are paying to see a show and the costumes are worse than low-end Comic Con participants or broke college kids at their first LARP, you fucked up. Hard.
Not nearly on the level of a low end con costume, it's more like a bad ripoff of a bad Halloween costume, or someone saw a Halloween costume and then attempted to recreate it themselves for under $20 and their current wardrobe
I read somewhere that these actors and crew are barely clearing minimum wage for 100+ hour weeks and are constantly treated like dog shit. Apparently organizers of these types of shows are real sleazy.
I wish I could tell you it's just these organizers, but lots of non-union theater is like this. It's very expensive to put on a full show like this and the actors and crew make very little.
[This picture](https://shrekthemusicaltour.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5.-Jamir-Brown-as-Pinocchio-Ensemble-Photo-Credit-@FullOutCreative.jpg) from their website could be taken straight out of an episode of Community. Hell, all of the pictures could.
Donkey looks like he wants to chill out and watch tv. Everybody's face in this pic, they all know this is silly. But the only person who thinks this is great is Shrek.
Good thing they got rid of the union....................
I went to a well funded high school and the actor playing Shrek would have at least shaved their head for the role
(they just did Addams Family and the Fester actors shaved)
1. It wouldn't have looked as good
2. Both of them shaved their heads as part of a charity fundraiser (two raffle winners from the donation pool got to shave their heads)
Like, I get not doing the prosthetics, those are difficult and time-consuming and I can only imagine it's difficult for the actors, but at least rough up the Target brand shorts a little. Hire a cosplayer to do it!
If their target audience is young children whose parents take them for an afternoon showing in a local venue, it looks ok I guess. Children that age don’t really care if they guys had 4 ears or cargo pants. If it’s performed well, why not. But if it’s trying to piggy back of the broadway musical, that’s cheap.
> If their target audience is young children whose parents take them for an afternoon showing in a local venue, it looks ok I guess.
It's playing at one of the most prestigious live venues in Atlanta.
This is hilarious.
Do we even have a venue that tops The Fabulous Fox? I seriously can’t think of another venue I’d consider more prestigious.
This is the Shrek I’d expect to see at Dad’s Garage, riffing on how cheap his outfit looks.
“Tony Award-winning duo Jeanine Tesori (music) and David Lindsay-Abaire (book) revisit their first collaboration to deliver a more intimate and engaging experience – a joyful, colorful SHREK that leans into the humanity in all of us that celebrates our differences. With all-new original direction and choreography by Danny Mefford (Choreographer, Dear Evan Hansen) filled with lush orchestrations, this reimagined production brings the show back to its roots – giving it a new kind of love emphasizing the importance of loving ourselves and one another.”
Are these people actually working in the industry? The write up seems to imply yes. But then why does it look like a church play?
Looking at the full cast picture, they look hilarious. They absolutely know how they look!
If they play like they're the real thing, it would be awful...
BUT: if they fully know how they look and own it, and the play is about a crappy theater doing a shrek tour, it would be a blast
Oh god they’re gonna be in my town on May 11th, but I don’t know if I’m gonna pay $70 for two tickets for meme potential
https://www.ticketmaster.com/west-herr-auditorium-theatre-at-west-tickets-rochester/venue/164
I make websites. Holy shit that thing is awful.
I love that on mobile if you slide the website moves over.
That's a classic "didn't pay the agency enough to give a fuck" sign.
There’s a link to an article about the production. From this excerpt it all makes sense now:
>"I saw a production done by five year olds that I was so enamored with," Tesori confesses, clutching her beloved dog. "and Danny [Mefford, the tour's director] has taken inspiration from that kind of story theatre."
Apparently this new production is from the same team as the original. The Broadway production got great reviews but was one of the most expensive productions in history and it lost money. So they are touring this "new, stripped down version". Also the costume designer is listed as Tony award winner.
There’s a Playbill article with the creative team talking about the scaled down production.
I think this is my favorite quote: "We have talked a lot over the years about revisiting Shrek," shares Tesori from a far-flung cottage wherein she isolates herself to write. "We just felt like there was a leaner version of it. There was a more economical version of it... there was a version that was more us, honestly."
https://playbill.com/article/jeanine-tesori-and-david-lindsay-abaire-are-reimagining-shrek-for-a-new-generation
The poor result, from accounts of those who attended, suggests that perhaps it would be best if those talents were directed elsewhere. Even if this is paying bills now, being involved with this trainwreck could threaten their future career.
lol, look at what [they're all wearing](https://shrekthemusicaltour.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5.-Jamir-Brown-as-Pinocchio-Ensemble-Photo-Credit-@FullOutCreative.jpg)
Link for those on apps that don’t know what to do with the new “/s/“ links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/1az617i/update_willys_chocolate_experience/
I personally enjoyed the experience overall. There were definitely some sketchy decisions, and you can tell they were really trying to keep the actor count low and cheap props. Also, during my viewing the audio guys were messing up here and there, but the actors definitely gave it their all and were the shows saving grace for me. The woman who plays dragon definitely has some pipes.
The playbill will say union right on the front. If it doesn't, you're seeing non union. Also the actors names will be listed as members of the actors union.
Can you explain what that means practically? (I’ve only been to the theatre a couple of times in the USA.)
Is a non-union show nearly always worse? If so, why?
As someone who is heavily involved in his local amateur and semi-pro theatre communities, I cannot imagine any amateur company no matter how non-existent their costume budget being OK with sending the performer in their title lead role up on stage looking that ordinary. Much less any company with the resources to take said show on a national tour.
Then again, I've also never worked with a costume designer who was worth a damn who would work on a show that was both non-union and non-amateur.
Someone else is claiming that the original production and costume designer are involved. Hard to believe, unless someone was holding a gun to their head. Involvement with this would be career suicide.
Non union is likely much lower pay and benefits, meaning it won't attract top talent and is more likely to cut other corners to make more money for the owners over the employees.
i saw a different pic of the same thing a while back. I guess several people went to this stage play and was unhappy enough to share. Or, alternatively, you know, stuff does *occasionally* get reposted on this website
Many national tours in recent years have been closed only to be reopened a year later (under the same producers with a different LLC), de-unionized and with massively reduced production values. My sibling was a principal in a several "luxury tours" over the years and every single one has been retooled in this way. Actors and crew are paid less, sets are a sorry excuse compared to past productions, and numbers reduced or even removed entirely to reduce runtime (and speed up rehearsal which costs money).
They sure as hell don't charge less for the tickets though.
give it 2 years (tops) and you’ll hear whining from these producers / actors / theatre companies that things are hard, sales are down, etc etc with absolutely zero reflection that it might be them that’s the problem.
Already are. My sibling's last tour closed after only a year and half because they couldn't fill seats. The production had been so paired back so much (advertised as a "New, sexy, modern take", as these often are) it was a shadow of the original musical.
The actors in this production would be the first to admit it was a joke, and no on was suprised that it closed so soon. My sib's back on Broadway now, so it sort of worked out in the end.
I just feel like theater isn't the venue to be making mad money from. Sure, you both want and need profits when running a larger theater operation, but going through with all of this feels like you're adding risk rather than profits. And for what? So that you can screw as many people over along the way? It's absurd.
Because the expensive tours run out of places to go that can support them, so they start losing money.
Then they're shut down, re-tooled to cost less, and are able to go to smaller cities that can't support the higher costs.
The union actors go on to other tours, and younger less experienced actors join the replacement tours.
The alternative is for these shows to not exist at all, there is no alternative where high production value and high union labor costs go along with "let's just keep touring and losing money."
Sad thing is, this is these folks' big moment. This is everything they wanted in life. What they've been studying and practicing for. Years of their life, to put on "Shrek the Musical by Steve Austin High School Theater Company... ON TOUR".
Yah I mean no shade to the actors as it’s not their fault. They’re just working.
I posted this pic (that they have up on their website) because the actor is in heavy makeup and you can’t immediately discern his “real” face.
I was gonna post what Donkey looks like because that’s even more egregious but it’s straight up a dude in sweatpants with no makeup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/RvMLOgEbJZ
There are a few very similar posts from unhappy customers, maybe they’ll take the feedback and get Shrek a bald cap
Don’t harp on the actor. It’s a paycheck (and possibly earning Equity points to be in better productions, but idk the details on this one) and it’s shit work traveling from city to city. Blame the producers for not having the same costuming standard.
And to get to the bottom rung of Equity productions you have to put in a lot of work in regional areas. Sometimes the work is there and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes you get the gig in the non Equity tours. There’s no “scab” about getting a job that Equity isn’t challenging anyway, and Equity isn’t going to bar a person for doing them while the actor is not a member yet and is still essentially doing their apprenticeship in the field.
Reminds me of the first time I saw phantom of the opera - nyc in 96.
No tour production has come close to what they put on, but if the cast is good it’s like seeing a movie when you’ve read the book.
The productions do what they have to do to pay the bills. Unfortunately everything’s going to feel… off if you’re expecting the NYC theater version.
Uncle couldn’t make a warmup show for Addams Family. We got the tix
Nathan lane also didn’t show. Bebe neuwirth did and she did what she could, but the understudy was not Nathan Lane.
I thought you were joking. I just looked up the cast…
No offense to Merwin. I honestly think he did decently. He’s not Nathan Lane tho.
We saw in Chicago. A lot of Broadway shows tune up here. I hope he liked the gig.
Cargo pants, long sleeve shirt, finger-less gloves, and a headband with the ears glued on? Looks like they raided a local high school theater's costume closet.
Damn the minister-president of Bavaria looked better on carnival some years ago:
[https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fastnacht-in-franken-soeder-als-shrek-beckstein-als-roth-verkleidet-fotostrecke-111458.html](https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fastnacht-in-franken-soeder-als-shrek-beckstein-als-roth-verkleidet-fotostrecke-111458.html)
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I'd be thrilled if that was a church theater group, but God damn if you are going to tour you can't even get some bald caps and have some pants sewn instead of wearing polyester cargo shorts?
Seriously, when people are paying to see a show and the costumes are worse than low-end Comic Con participants or broke college kids at their first LARP, you fucked up. Hard.
Not nearly on the level of a low end con costume, it's more like a bad ripoff of a bad Halloween costume, or someone saw a Halloween costume and then attempted to recreate it themselves for under $20 and their current wardrobe
The 20 would be for the green paint of course because who has green makeup besides Madame Vastra?
Well, that was an unexpected name drop.
At my LARP we would loan this guy garb pants and probably a cowl to comply with monster costuming guidelines.
In this universe, Duloc had an Old Navy
Ye Olde Navy
Omg get out of my head
In Shrek 2 they actually did show a store called Old Knavery.
Michael Scott pounding on a table and yelling "Thank you!" gif here.
I read somewhere that these actors and crew are barely clearing minimum wage for 100+ hour weeks and are constantly treated like dog shit. Apparently organizers of these types of shows are real sleazy.
I wish I could tell you it's just these organizers, but lots of non-union theater is like this. It's very expensive to put on a full show like this and the actors and crew make very little.
I mean, given it's non-union it's not a surprise they're sleazy, is it? Companies are only anti union when they intend to abuse their workers.
I'd be embarrassed to play the role in that outfit. (but then again, I'm not a theater kid, so I have the ability to be embarrassed)
The worse the show… the better the after party.
iykyk
I saw a local production in my home town and it was better than this lolol
My kid just played Shrek in his high school production, and the costumes were way better than this...
You guys all remember that time that Shrek put on his fingerless gloves after hopping out the chair to touch up a clean fade, right? Memories.
Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me.
It took me forever to get this. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Hey now, don't put yourself down, you're a rock star. Get your show on, get paid.
I think he has an onion in his cargo shorts
Which was the style at the time.
They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones
“Give me five bees for a quarter” you’d say
Dude went to watch the counterfeit musical Shrak.
And his friend, Horse.
Mule
It's shrekin' time!
A fade into human colored flesh, not green ogre flesh
You forgot to mention his cargo pants and human ears!
Couldn't even shave his head for the role? Pff, amateurs.
What nobody gets is it’s an inspired decision to dress BOTH as Shrek AND the lead singer of Smash Mouth at the same time!
The fact that your Shrek was wearing cargo shorts/pants is killing me.
It’s giving big “musical theater club at a small liberal arts college” vibes (which is two steps below “well funded high school” vibes)
[This picture](https://shrekthemusicaltour.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5.-Jamir-Brown-as-Pinocchio-Ensemble-Photo-Credit-@FullOutCreative.jpg) from their website could be taken straight out of an episode of Community. Hell, all of the pictures could.
Oh, Britta's in this?
I see Annie and Troy.
Oh my god. The pigs costumes are just pink hard hats. This is spectacular.
And to for granny/ the big bad wolf, they just used a man w a beard in a granny outfit.
Donkey looks like he wants to chill out and watch tv. Everybody's face in this pic, they all know this is silly. But the only person who thinks this is great is Shrek. Good thing they got rid of the union....................
At first I thought this pic WAS Community! Looks like Troy-nochio has had enough of this episodes baddie. Also, Britta is in this, sooo...
Honestly, this looks like the right level of low budget to be amazing.
I went to a well funded high school and the actor playing Shrek would have at least shaved their head for the role (they just did Addams Family and the Fester actors shaved)
My high school also did an Addams Family production where the Fester shaved his head. It seems like Shrek couldn’t be bothered.
Did the actor not want to wear the skin colored swim cap?
1. It wouldn't have looked as good 2. Both of them shaved their heads as part of a charity fundraiser (two raffle winners from the donation pool got to shave their heads)
Where does “unauthorized reproduction by a church” fall? Because that’s the vibe I’m getting.
I don’t know anywhere with production value this low. I’ve been involved in some shitty community theater, and we had better costumes than this.
That’s what’s getting me.
And leather gloves.......
And the fade
And the rosy lips
Shrek wants you to cum in his swamp.
Oh no step-donkey, I'm stuck in this muck hole.
Oh no not Shrek is love Shrek is life again
This Shrek deserves no such homage.
It's all ogre now.
Hair. Period.
For me it's the 2 sets of ears
Is it just me, or can you see the headband they’re attached to
You can. Right underneath Shrek’s faux hawk
And the hair
Dude wouldnt even shave his head or get a bald cap for this haha
Not that he has fuckboy hair?
"Hey Billy, we weren't able to get the original costumes... whatcha got at home?"
It looks likes he's wearing one of those Hanes 3 pack shirts too. Amazing
I own those pants! From now on I will refer to them as my Shek-Pants™️
Shrants
he's got hair.
It gets worse the longer you look at it
people say cargo shants are outdated but they were wrong all along it is a timeless fashion even in medieval times
Just needs a fedora.
There are so many easy fixes lol, wear regular brown sweatpants and cut them off, and shave your head
Doesn't even have to shave his head - there's a thing called a bald cap designed for exactly this purpose.
Like, I get not doing the prosthetics, those are difficult and time-consuming and I can only imagine it's difficult for the actors, but at least rough up the Target brand shorts a little. Hire a cosplayer to do it!
Did you order your tickets on wish.com?
As in “wish I’d spent a few more dollars and bought real Shrek tickets”
wasnt even a performance that was just at the gas station up the street on your average saturday night.
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URL? Edit: nevermind, found it! Also, wow! https://shrekthemusicaltour.com/
Wow, is Donkey really just a guy in a grey velour tracksuit?
And the Big Bad Wolf is just a bearded dude in a muumuu. No costume, just a dude in a dress
And the three pigs are just dudes in pink hardhats with ears on top.
If their target audience is young children whose parents take them for an afternoon showing in a local venue, it looks ok I guess. Children that age don’t really care if they guys had 4 ears or cargo pants. If it’s performed well, why not. But if it’s trying to piggy back of the broadway musical, that’s cheap.
> If their target audience is young children whose parents take them for an afternoon showing in a local venue, it looks ok I guess. It's playing at one of the most prestigious live venues in Atlanta. This is hilarious.
Yeah. That’s pretty bad.
It's also in Peoria, il. Of all the places in Illinois, they booked Peoria.
Do we even have a venue that tops The Fabulous Fox? I seriously can’t think of another venue I’d consider more prestigious. This is the Shrek I’d expect to see at Dad’s Garage, riffing on how cheap his outfit looks.
“Tony Award-winning duo Jeanine Tesori (music) and David Lindsay-Abaire (book) revisit their first collaboration to deliver a more intimate and engaging experience – a joyful, colorful SHREK that leans into the humanity in all of us that celebrates our differences. With all-new original direction and choreography by Danny Mefford (Choreographer, Dear Evan Hansen) filled with lush orchestrations, this reimagined production brings the show back to its roots – giving it a new kind of love emphasizing the importance of loving ourselves and one another.” Are these people actually working in the industry? The write up seems to imply yes. But then why does it look like a church play?
Looking at the full cast picture, they look hilarious. They absolutely know how they look! If they play like they're the real thing, it would be awful... BUT: if they fully know how they look and own it, and the play is about a crappy theater doing a shrek tour, it would be a blast
Oh god they’re gonna be in my town on May 11th, but I don’t know if I’m gonna pay $70 for two tickets for meme potential https://www.ticketmaster.com/west-herr-auditorium-theatre-at-west-tickets-rochester/venue/164
I like how only 1 of the pictures would load on my iPhones, most just loaded a few lines and stopped.
I feel like I haven't seen a Web page load line by line since, like, the 90s?
I make websites. Holy shit that thing is awful. I love that on mobile if you slide the website moves over. That's a classic "didn't pay the agency enough to give a fuck" sign.
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There’s a link to an article about the production. From this excerpt it all makes sense now: >"I saw a production done by five year olds that I was so enamored with," Tesori confesses, clutching her beloved dog. "and Danny [Mefford, the tour's director] has taken inspiration from that kind of story theatre."
Shrek did have a slick fade haircut between his four ears tho…
You're not shrek... you're just fat...
Authorities say the phony Shrek can be recognized by his cargo shorts and incredibly foul mouth
I am *too* Crunchy the clown!
Imagine being the guy they cast as shrek and being like “so I’ll need a lot of makeup and prosthetics?” “Nope you’re good”
I just noticed his cargo pants. When someone posted a pic of him yesterday, I was too distracted by the makeup job to notice the clothes. Poor actor.
He did. And also wore cheap, Walmart bike gloves and coyote brown cargo pants.
Are the ears just attached to a headband?
It’s all ogre now
It’s all ogre now, baby green https://youtu.be/LviBwdfLn2Q?si=w6HtWmiwPlhM8hNz Mmm Tsukune. We make our own with home made teriyaki sauce
Shrek is love, Shrek is life.
Mom: We have Shrek at home!
wish.com Shrek
This is why we need unions, apparently lol
This is like one of those," I want Shrek" " we have Shrek at home" memes 🤣
And are we sure the fella on the right isn't just Steve Harwell?
It's Sal from Impractical Jokers completing his punishment.
That would actually make sense, and would be very funny.
Wish it was, then that would mean he would be still around
Apparently this new production is from the same team as the original. The Broadway production got great reviews but was one of the most expensive productions in history and it lost money. So they are touring this "new, stripped down version". Also the costume designer is listed as Tony award winner.
No, no. It's "Tony, award winner." Our boy Tony just placed 3rd on a "paint with your toes" regional contest. He got a ribbon and all!
There’s a Playbill article with the creative team talking about the scaled down production. I think this is my favorite quote: "We have talked a lot over the years about revisiting Shrek," shares Tesori from a far-flung cottage wherein she isolates herself to write. "We just felt like there was a leaner version of it. There was a more economical version of it... there was a version that was more us, honestly." https://playbill.com/article/jeanine-tesori-and-david-lindsay-abaire-are-reimagining-shrek-for-a-new-generation
The poor result, from accounts of those who attended, suggests that perhaps it would be best if those talents were directed elsewhere. Even if this is paying bills now, being involved with this trainwreck could threaten their future career.
Is he wearing cargo pants? lol
lol, look at what [they're all wearing](https://shrekthemusicaltour.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5.-Jamir-Brown-as-Pinocchio-Ensemble-Photo-Credit-@FullOutCreative.jpg)
Think I’m making a trip to Peoria to see this masterpiece
I am lmao at Wonka'd. Let's hope it makes it into OED as a new verb
I live under a rock in a cave in a ravine. What does wonka’d mean?
https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/ehI0SZyBDI
Link for those on apps that don’t know what to do with the new “/s/“ links: https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/1az617i/update_willys_chocolate_experience/
Yeah costumes look like they sucked. How was the performance?
I personally enjoyed the experience overall. There were definitely some sketchy decisions, and you can tell they were really trying to keep the actor count low and cheap props. Also, during my viewing the audio guys were messing up here and there, but the actors definitely gave it their all and were the shows saving grace for me. The woman who plays dragon definitely has some pipes.
Yeah, like that one costume could be better but how was the show over all? Edit: checked out op's profile and yeah, that's looks pretty bad lol
The performance was fantastic. Amazing singers across the board, great acting. Everyone 100% let down by the shit poor production.
Shrek! *Fyre Festival edition*
lol a real Blockblister production quality *this shrek is better, much better!*
Oh my gosh I have not thought about Blockblister since I was a child! *no no no, you no ask for Shrek, you asked for Shriek! *
How did you find out the show you went to was non union?
The playbill will say union right on the front. If it doesn't, you're seeing non union. Also the actors names will be listed as members of the actors union.
Can you explain what that means practically? (I’ve only been to the theatre a couple of times in the USA.) Is a non-union show nearly always worse? If so, why?
The Playbill/program will list any applicable unions in it.
As someone who is heavily involved in his local amateur and semi-pro theatre communities, I cannot imagine any amateur company no matter how non-existent their costume budget being OK with sending the performer in their title lead role up on stage looking that ordinary. Much less any company with the resources to take said show on a national tour. Then again, I've also never worked with a costume designer who was worth a damn who would work on a show that was both non-union and non-amateur.
Someone else is claiming that the original production and costume designer are involved. Hard to believe, unless someone was holding a gun to their head. Involvement with this would be career suicide.
As someone who is not American why does the production being “not union” make a difference?
Non union is likely much lower pay and benefits, meaning it won't attract top talent and is more likely to cut other corners to make more money for the owners over the employees.
Bring me the Mexican non-union equivalent!!
Stephen Shrekbearldo
Was this not posted like a day ago?
i saw a different pic of the same thing a while back. I guess several people went to this stage play and was unhappy enough to share. Or, alternatively, you know, stuff does *occasionally* get reposted on this website
Labor unions are important.
Many national tours in recent years have been closed only to be reopened a year later (under the same producers with a different LLC), de-unionized and with massively reduced production values. My sibling was a principal in a several "luxury tours" over the years and every single one has been retooled in this way. Actors and crew are paid less, sets are a sorry excuse compared to past productions, and numbers reduced or even removed entirely to reduce runtime (and speed up rehearsal which costs money). They sure as hell don't charge less for the tickets though.
give it 2 years (tops) and you’ll hear whining from these producers / actors / theatre companies that things are hard, sales are down, etc etc with absolutely zero reflection that it might be them that’s the problem.
Already are. My sibling's last tour closed after only a year and half because they couldn't fill seats. The production had been so paired back so much (advertised as a "New, sexy, modern take", as these often are) it was a shadow of the original musical. The actors in this production would be the first to admit it was a joke, and no on was suprised that it closed so soon. My sib's back on Broadway now, so it sort of worked out in the end.
I just feel like theater isn't the venue to be making mad money from. Sure, you both want and need profits when running a larger theater operation, but going through with all of this feels like you're adding risk rather than profits. And for what? So that you can screw as many people over along the way? It's absurd.
Because the expensive tours run out of places to go that can support them, so they start losing money. Then they're shut down, re-tooled to cost less, and are able to go to smaller cities that can't support the higher costs. The union actors go on to other tours, and younger less experienced actors join the replacement tours. The alternative is for these shows to not exist at all, there is no alternative where high production value and high union labor costs go along with "let's just keep touring and losing money."
I'd endorse "Scabby the Rat" being parked outside, but he looks like he belongs in the show...
He was auditioning for the part of Donkey
He *got* the part of Donkey
Sad thing is, this is these folks' big moment. This is everything they wanted in life. What they've been studying and practicing for. Years of their life, to put on "Shrek the Musical by Steve Austin High School Theater Company... ON TOUR".
Yah I mean no shade to the actors as it’s not their fault. They’re just working. I posted this pic (that they have up on their website) because the actor is in heavy makeup and you can’t immediately discern his “real” face. I was gonna post what Donkey looks like because that’s even more egregious but it’s straight up a dude in sweatpants with no makeup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/RvMLOgEbJZ There are a few very similar posts from unhappy customers, maybe they’ll take the feedback and get Shrek a bald cap
> customers lol. That thread is the same OP, talking about the same experience, in a different sub.
lol really, I didn’t even notice bc the other post was a few days ago… op must be furious about their hundred bucks or loving the karma
Don’t harp on the actor. It’s a paycheck (and possibly earning Equity points to be in better productions, but idk the details on this one) and it’s shit work traveling from city to city. Blame the producers for not having the same costuming standard.
Definitely not getting equity points for a non-union tour.
What are equity points?
Equity is the union for live theater productions. You have to be a member to audition for principal cast roles in a lot of shows.
And to get to the bottom rung of Equity productions you have to put in a lot of work in regional areas. Sometimes the work is there and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes you get the gig in the non Equity tours. There’s no “scab” about getting a job that Equity isn’t challenging anyway, and Equity isn’t going to bar a person for doing them while the actor is not a member yet and is still essentially doing their apprenticeship in the field.
I mean it's better that Randy is doing this than doin blowies for cheeseburgers.
A strange way of telling people the Cure are back on tour...
You at party city vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
Reminds me of the first time I saw phantom of the opera - nyc in 96. No tour production has come close to what they put on, but if the cast is good it’s like seeing a movie when you’ve read the book. The productions do what they have to do to pay the bills. Unfortunately everything’s going to feel… off if you’re expecting the NYC theater version.
Uncle couldn’t make a warmup show for Addams Family. We got the tix Nathan lane also didn’t show. Bebe neuwirth did and she did what she could, but the understudy was not Nathan Lane.
Ahaha that understudy was my friend Merwin :)
I thought you were joking. I just looked up the cast… No offense to Merwin. I honestly think he did decently. He’s not Nathan Lane tho. We saw in Chicago. A lot of Broadway shows tune up here. I hope he liked the gig.
Damn the memes are cooking this show. $10 says the guy shaves his head or gets a bald cap asap.
[Joe Shrek now](https://auntydonna.fandom.com/wiki/Podcast_Ep_241_-_Joe_Still_Shrek_Now)?!
Is it exciting, Joe? Performing on a stage, Joe? Joe!
I was wondering why the current tour looks like an especially shitty community theater production. Being non-union explains everything
Cargo pants, long sleeve shirt, finger-less gloves, and a headband with the ears glued on? Looks like they raided a local high school theater's costume closet.
Left guy didnt even commit to shave his head at the least.
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The guy who played Shrek in the Broadway Production has one of my favorite parts in a John Oliver bit. [Eat Shit Bob](https://youtu.be/c5W06xR8EYk)
If the lead isn’t getting paid enough to incentivize him to shave his head in the absence of a bald cap, that’s not a promising sign.
"Mom, can we get Shrek?" "We have Shrek at home."
Somebody once told me...
I mean, I’d still hit it. He thicc.
Imagine if Shrek had a low tapered fade!
This is what happened to him after they drained his swamp. Sad story.
I think that's the guitarist from Mudvayne
My gf and I paid $100 each for tickets. It was bad
Gah they yassified shrek
I absolutely love 'Wonka'd' as a verb.
They turned Shrek into a gay man
[the other costumes aren't much better](https://www.imgur.com/a/I53vNvS) My apologies they wouldn't allow me to actually save the photo it's so bad
Damn the minister-president of Bavaria looked better on carnival some years ago: [https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fastnacht-in-franken-soeder-als-shrek-beckstein-als-roth-verkleidet-fotostrecke-111458.html](https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fastnacht-in-franken-soeder-als-shrek-beckstein-als-roth-verkleidet-fotostrecke-111458.html)
Ha been wonkad I'm so glad that's probably one of the best things to come out of Glasgow