Shrek The Musical Analysis Essay

Abstract This research is an exploration into how ‘Jukebox musicals’ have influenced modern day musicals and how they are written. This style of musical could be seen as the most recent form of musical and its increasing success in the West End looks appears like it’s going to stay. In this essay I will be investigating into whether jukebox musicals have affected future original musicals, the audiences that watch them and the rising musical theatre writers that make new original west end productions possible.

Give My Regards to Broadway Music brings culture to everyday life, it can be found anywhere at anytime. Music doesn’t have to actually be playing for people to hear it. The rhythm of the city is music in itself, everybody has their own unique sound and way to add into the beat of the city. Music expands in many different ways such as country music, which has it’s own unique sound. Country music can be slow with a love story, fast with a break up story to it, or it could be a moderate speed about a big purple dinosaur.

Oklahoma! has some enjoyable music, energetic dancing, and overall happy flow that provided audiences with an escape from the harsh realities of war going on all around the world, “I’ve got a beautiful feeling, Everything’s going my way” (Hammerstein,“Oh What A Beautiful Mornin”). Rodgers and Hammerstein do a great job of sugar coating over the realities about rural

Shrek is a bad-tempered, green, and ugly ogre who lives happily in his own swamp. Until the day that the great Lord farquaad banished all sorts of fairy tale creatures to invade and live in his swamp. When Shrek wants his peaceful home back to himself, he and his sidekick, Donkey, make their way to the castle to speak to Lord farquaad about getting his swamp back. Lord Farquaad refuses to remove the creatures unless Shrek and Donkey do him a favor. The favor is that they rescue Princess Fiona from a castle guarded by a dragon and bring her back to the Lord.

After Augustus tells The Grinch that he “[doesn’t] don't have a chance with [Martha because he’s] 8 years old with a beard!” (The Grinch 2000). The Grinch feigns nonchalance about going to Whoville with Cindy Lou Who to be the Holiday Cheermiester. His act is so transparent, even a child like Cindy can see right through it. Shrek spends his time scaring away the humans and other fairytale creatures that dare enter his swamp.

The movie Shrek shows exaggeration through the characters of Shrek and Fiona. Shrek exemplifies exaggeration by pulling a large amount of earwax out of his ear to create a candle. The amount of earwax pulled from Shrek’s ear is abnormal to the amount of wax from a regular human. Shrek also takes a frog and turns it into a balloon for Fiona, and Fiona also picks up a snake and turns it into a balloon. Another example of exaggeration is when Fiona begins to sing with a bird and tries to sing louder than it.

This is a prejudice that has always been pushed onto him and he himself promotes as truth so that people who target him will leave him alone. However, Shrek in reality is none of these stereotypes and only promotes the ideas so that people will be too scared to try and kill him. When Shrek brings Fiona to Lord Farquaad, Farquaad says that “You don’t have to waste good manners on the ogre. It’s not like it has any feelings” he and many others have belittled Shek with this prejudice to make him angry and resentful. This causes Shrek to lash out at even those he cares about, such as Donkey and Fiona, shunning himself from society.

The Wizard of Oz and Wicked are both very successful and well-known broadway musicals. Both of these musicals are based off of the same story, but each give a slightly different meaning to it. While they are both based on a similar tale, these two broadway musicals have many characteristics that are similar and differ from each other. This paper will compare and contrast the characters, theme, and plot.

The productions of this play were successful through stage design, lighting crewing, and acting. Those three aspects made the quality of the play stand out to me, as an audience member. The production of the set design of the play was a good effort. The set design for the play staging aims for the sweet spot between feeding adult nostalgia and satisfying a new generation of children.

The dialogue and lyrics are straightforward and full of ironic elements, which bring a lot of fun to enjoy. The transition from lines into a song is pretty smooth. For example, when Shrek is “hurt” by what Fiona says and his anger reaches a climax, he naturally starts to sing to express his emotion. In addition, the music, which embraces several styles such as pop, rock and jazz, also add dynamics into the show. So in sum, the writing of the show is well-done.

In the Dreamworks film, Shrek 3, Shrek starts a family with his wife, Princess Fiona although he is known for a very monstrous ogre everywhere he's ever made an appearance. It takes Shrek some time to accustom to the fact that he is a father and people do not see him as a scary man because he now has kids. Unfortunately, Shrek does not want to accept that he is not viewed as a frightening figure anymore and that his ogre reputation has been abolished. However, throughout the movie Shrek reveals character traits through the trials he goes through as a father which gives him a new reputation. Shrek reveals that he is very caring, loving, compassionate, and considerate person through the experiences he underwent.

Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz based on a book by Winnie Holzman. The musical is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. Wicked celebrated its tenth anniversary on Broadway on 30 October 2013. It is the 9th longest-Broadway show, surpassing Beauty and the Beast. A typical performance runs for approximately two hours and thirty minutes.

This definition explains how piousness it is to treat people based on the color of their skin. In fact, Shrek is not only an ogre, but a green ogre. The many struggles that faced Fiona and Shrek explains how race is an issue for him. His situation with Fiona is an example of interracial marriage and the plot as a whole shows how stigmatic society is. Fiona kept insisting in Shrek II that they should not judge Shrek by his appearance.

I went the performance of The Nutcracker by Ballet West. The theme of the concert was the Nutcracker/Christmas. I saw this concert because I wanted to see a Christmas dance and a profession dance with profession dancers. Before the show started they dimmed the lights in the audience and when the show started they lit the stage up. The costumes in the show were a mouse in a normal mouse costume, a bear in a normal bear costume, the snowflakes in light blue dresses, the snow queen and king where dressed in all white, the little girls where dress in colorful dress and the little boys in skinny suits, the adults where in long dark colored dress and suits, the sugar plum fairy had a pink dress with a long gold cape.

Since the beginning of Broadway, musicals have been used as a social response to the issues going on in that time period. By using alluring music and riveting stories, these shows, along with many more, captivate their audience and grab their attention to the issues that are going on. Some shows that have reflected the time period they were performed in are Hair, Hairspray, and Rent. Hair is set in the 1960’s and follows a man who is being drafted into the Vietnam War. When he arrives in New York City, he meets a group of hippies and becomes acquainted with them.