Jani, a valuable team member since 2000, slips an ogre green latex prosthetic, complete with warts and Shrek's trumpet shaped ears, over Angove's head. Like the costume parade, the makeup application is a test run to see how all the pieces work together. In another corner three rats prance in front of a mirror while a roly-poly Humpty Dumpty, delicate Sugar Plum Fairy, cute Ugly Duckling and flamboyant Mad Hatter do a few warm-ups.Īway from the chaos in the quieter dressing rooms, makeup artist Noreen Jani builds Shrek's face onto actor Steven Angove, a children's theatre alumnus and graduate of MacEwan University's musical theatre program. In one corner the Wicked Witch, wearing a pointy hat that looked like the feminine version of the Harry Potter sorting hat, swishes past Princess Fiona as she's being measured in an elegant wedding dress. Getting readyĪt the costume parade, actors and designers met in Progress Hall to fix any little bugs, adjust garments and run cast members through several of the show-stopping numbers. On the way he rescues the mouthy Donkey and involuntarily becomes champion to the romantic but testy Fiona, a princess with an embarrassing secret. Shrek sets out to visit Farquaad in an effort to get his privacy back. The villainous and vertically challenged Lord Farquaad has banished the characters from the Kingdom of Duloc. In an era when bullying is scrutinized under a more intense microscope, the "don't judge a book by its cover" educational message was all it took for children's theatre artistic director Janice Flower to snap up the rights.Īs in the animated version, Shrek's peaceful but lonely existence is interrupted after a flood of storybook characters arrive at his swamp. Transformed into a pop culture icon, the Oscar-winning tale was morphed into a Broadway musical with David Lindsay-Abaire's witty book and Jeanine Tesori's pop-rock music.
SHREK MIRROR COSTUME PROFESSIONAL
The rights alone were $13,000 and the stagecraft for this production is worthy of any professional company.įairytale fans first got to know the loveable green ogre Shrek by reading William Steig's book, and later watched it become one of DreamWorks mega-hit animated films.
21 for an 11-day run.Īnd it's quite possibly the biggest show the theatre group has produced.
SHREK MIRROR COSTUME FULL
Albert Children's Theatre has thrown its full resources into mounting Shrek, the Musical, a lush extravaganza that opens Thursday, Nov.
The first sightings that something mysterious was afoot happened during a costume parade last Wednesday night. The Arden Theatre is slowly undergoing a magical transformation into a fairyland with a Chinese dragon, sassy gingerbread man and a transvestite wolf.
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