Shrek The Musical at Empire Theatre, Sunderland
On Wednesday night my Mam and I headed to Sunderland's Empire Theatre to watch the opening night's performance of Shrek the Musical.
We couldn't get central seats so we were in B14 and B15 in the dress circle, giving us a slightly angled view.
Neither of us were really expecting much from this musical but it was actually really good, I think i'd probably rate it higher than Wicked as I didn't really find Wicked that interesting if i'm honest.
Lord Farquaad (sorry I didn't pick up a programme on the way in and didn't have time to stop by the merchandise stall on the way out sadly - we got stuck in the car park for about 40minutes last time so we ran!) basically stole the show, I don't want to give too much away for anyone who is going to be seeing this show soon, but obviously, with Lord Farquaad being a very short character they needed to portray this within the show and they way they did it was hilarious - they had an average height actor on his knees and there were many Farquaad leg gags throughout the musical.
The Dragon was amazing too - it looked just like the Dragon from the movie - and I can definitely say I think the person controlling the Dragon's head had the most difficult job of all - controlling not only the head and it's direction, but the mouth and eyes too. The gingerbread man was also controlled in a similar way - with a handle to control the mouth and buttons for the eyebrows and eyes.
Pinocchio was one of my favourite characters and i'm honestly not sure why! but he definitely was the ring leader in the group of fairytale characters.
Lord Farquaad (sorry I didn't pick up a programme on the way in and didn't have time to stop by the merchandise stall on the way out sadly - we got stuck in the car park for about 40minutes last time so we ran!) basically stole the show, I don't want to give too much away for anyone who is going to be seeing this show soon, but obviously, with Lord Farquaad being a very short character they needed to portray this within the show and they way they did it was hilarious - they had an average height actor on his knees and there were many Farquaad leg gags throughout the musical.
The Dragon was amazing too - it looked just like the Dragon from the movie - and I can definitely say I think the person controlling the Dragon's head had the most difficult job of all - controlling not only the head and it's direction, but the mouth and eyes too. The gingerbread man was also controlled in a similar way - with a handle to control the mouth and buttons for the eyebrows and eyes.
Pinocchio was one of my favourite characters and i'm honestly not sure why! but he definitely was the ring leader in the group of fairytale characters.
If you don't have tickets to see this, I recommend you hurry up and book tickets and see this before it ends!
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