I Know It's Today (Sutton Foster) | Shrek The Musical | TUNE 

That was literally my life.

You were kept in a tower ​@@silentsplinter6032

Basically kids growing up on Disney and being told they could be whoever they wanted lmao incoming harsh reality check

@@TheMorrigan333why are millennials so determined they are different despite Gen X and every gen after that grew up watching disney? Even boomers grew up watching disney.

@@leoofchild8039 It’s more about the timeframe than Disney itself. Film and books pushing the idea “you can be whoever you want to be.” It was a big “theme” during that time period. That’s why a lot of millennials grew up dealing with depression and anxiety. The world wasn’t what we thought it was. I’m not saying it’s just millennials but a good majority affected by this situation are.

realllll

Ikkkk

young Fiona especially blows my mind everytime I watch this. very expressive in both her voice and acting

I love the teenage Fiona Marissa O’Donnell

Yes, marissa

@Staggering_Stickbugs N o

A good childhood friend of mine! Marissa O’Donnell :)

Her voice reminds me of Sierra Boggess as Christine Daae!

@@Amandaaa2244she was my Annie when the tour came to ny

She certainly is!!! And sweet too. So excited for her to return in the musical Once Upon A Mattress, which was the first fairy tale parody musical that came before shrek!

@@AutismThespian1993 Omg she’ll be great for that role!!! At least as I remember it. Haven’t seen OUaM in years lol…

I was teen Fiona in my play of Shrek the musical, and the harmonies were so fun to learn!

I mean I would’ve laughed

i think they cut out a lot of the crowds reactions:)

I’m not gonna lie, it was really funny

I’m pretty sure they’re also recording the track through the personal mics, not just the cameras and stage mics so if there’s a big reaction that drowns out the singing they don’t lose that section of audio

@@shrimp.trap3 you're correct!!

not alot of people get that joke

@@superty6666 I don't get it

Its not really a joke, but more of how she says it. It's how desperate she is that Fiona, a character from Shrek, calls upon God for help. It's funny because you'd never expect her to do it, added with how she looks at the audience/sky

@@wmichel8919it’s a reference of a book “are you there god? it’s me, margaret” about a religious girl who feels like god has forgotten her

@@ckies4777 thats not the joke, its a reference to the book "are you there God, its me Margaret"

But yes she's good

This was in 2007 soooo.... lol

@buggart If she continued singing then she's probably so much better now

I think they mute the crowd during these performances

@@acelesbianmrcleanthere was a lot of laughing tho

​@@chillinwithchivsthat usually happens when the audience is really loud

To have the confidence and desperation of a tween girl

​@@chillinwithchivsthey sound like laugh tracks but idk

I thought she was like in her 30s tho? Doesnt she mention that she gets locked up at the age of 7?

@@orianamartin9161she would be 30 if she was first locked up at 7. 7 she enters the tower, 23 years stuck, making her 30 when Shrek rescues her.

@@orianamartin9161 Well, she clearly didn't get locked up as a baby, since she's only been there for 23 days when she's a child.

@@ashildrtheswift3028Also in this I think the teen Fiona says it’s been 988 days. Which is only 2.7 years, so presumably kid Fiona is 12 or so, rather than 7 Unless she says 98 which makes even less sense but it’s a musical about a movie about fairy tales so

@@DeathnoteBB Teen Fiona could be meant to be a preteen. Theaters usually cast kids a little older than what they actually what them to be for reasons involving rehearsal, what children can actually handle, and skill. So, if you see a teenager on the stage, they are often meant to be a little younger. So, if we assume that Fiona is an older 7 year old and hits her 8th birthday a month or two after the tower, and round 2.7 years to 3 years, then that puts the second actor around 11 years old. Which… actually would make a bit of sense. 11 is a tricky age for child actors, so the director probably just went for a skilled teen actor, figured no one would do the math anyway, and called it good enough. Basically, usually when a script calls for a non-main character to be a preteen, it’s probably going to be a teenager. Or even an adult that can pass for a teenager. Might not always be very authentic, but authenticity doesn’t matter if your child actor gets overwhelmed and quits in the middle of tech week. You’d be surprised how hard these rehearsals can be on little kids - no matter how experienced. Having a teen or adult play the role is less risky and healthier. That first girl probably didn’t go to as many rehearsals or left early a lot of the time. She likely had someone checking in on her frequently and a parent backstage during rehearsals. Also, children need separate dressing rooms and a very different approach to rehearsals. Also, if the play goes on tour they have to set up education for any kids and bring parents. It’s a whole thing.

Yeah I felt sorry for Fiona by the time 23 years have passed the isolation Nearly drove the poor girl insane

99th like! so true tbh

Real

Real

But Shrek was being sent away and in the song “I think I got u beat” she said she was send away on Christmas Eve and Shrek was sent away on his birthday

@@Eliza-b7bShrek was born on Christmas Eve so it was his birthday when Fiona was sent away.

Is there any musical adaptation of a dreamworks that isn'c this or prince of egypt?

@@mariavirginiacolas7278 madagascar 😭😭

@@mariavirginiacolas7278 i think it’s just a prince of egypt dig, which is well deserved

Dude, how many examples *are* there? It's coming first in a race between two people.

@@mariavirginiacolas7278 Madagascar

I get chills every time

@DeffsDelulu she was in the tower for 23 years… she wasn’t in there from birth, she was like 6 or 7

yeah so 30

That would mean teen Fiona was like 10. They should’ve upped the number to like 2000.

So many years without her in this show!!! You should watch morning person!

THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS YEARS AGO AND HAD NO IDEA

I was today years old when I heard "are you there god" for the third time and heard "fiona", went "what" and found that THERE'S A MUSICAL ABOUT SHERK

Where did you know her from?

@@smellincoffee Mainly from the recent Music Man revival and her current run in Sweeney Todd!

So related

Fr

Are you there, God? Its me, Fiona ITS ME, FIONAAAAAAAA

now I know he’ll appear because there are rules and there are scripturesss

I believe the storybooks I read

by candlelightttt

My white night

My only pet peeve is teenage Fiona is only like 2 years older than young Fiona lmao

Fiona probably loved doing bowling in her castle before she was put in the Tower.

Leah Greenhaus as young Fiona and Marissa O'Donnell as teen Fiona.

@@GLE_1290 ummm like how they did for hamilton

LMAOOOO

That's the best part

Thank you I'm so bad at maths

Each part could be used as an audition for three different age categories

True but a lot of auditions especially for kids would be 16 bars but ofc a lot are 32 bars too and if you are a kid they’re really isn’t 3 age categories but I see where your going

@@whatwhatwhatidkwhatstuff the jr. version for young Fiona’s part is closer to that. I know I said auditions but I was more thinking theatre competitions where there’s Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced solo. Of course some go into more depth than that though

Fiona’s such a sad character. She was so little when she was locked away :(

The king and queen are very shallow and scared of what people will think if they find out about their daughter

@@choppersworld5094If we go off the movies, it was more so because her father was afraid that the Fairy Godmother would turn him back into a frog if he didn’t let Prince Charming marry Fiona. Fiona’s mother actually tries to be understanding of Fiona’s choice to be an ogre and be married to Shrek. King Harold was willing to put his daughter through years of isolation and false hope just because he was scared of what people would think of his true appearance. Of course, you could argue that King Harold only did this because the Fairy Godmother “blackmailed” him by threatening to turn him back into a frog if he didn’t go through with this plan, but Fiona’s suffering still occurred due to his own vanity.

ITS ME FIONAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@@ika_makesdargons xd

@Steakisgay A musical is literally what Shrek was made to sarcastically parody. So its basic premise is already in conflict with the original movie.

You scare me

You have a crush on Shrek?

I have a crush on Shrek is a sentence I never thought I would read 😭

​@@Jiafei.YeHuanXiangHe is my pookie wookie 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰

@@M1k05t4rs I won’t judge, branch from trolls is 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍