Shrek The Musical

On December fourth, my parents and I saw Shrek The Musical at the DuPont for my dad's birthday.  The production was very good and I loved how they made the movie come to life.  One character in particular stuck out to me when I saw it and that was Fiona.  Fiona was played by this very talented, Broadway-good, woman and she tackled the role of Fiona spot on as if she was in the animated movie.  As soon as she stepped on the stage she was perfectly in her role as the slightly spastic yet poised Fiona.  At times I honestly felt like I was watching the computer generated version Cameron Diaz voiced over for because her movements were exactly like how Fiona's were in the movie.  She was a great actress and brought so much to her role and the show as a whole.  Okay, moving on from that rant... I also enjoyed Shrek because of the moral of the story: you should never judge anyone because you do not know what they are going through or what their story is.  In Shrek's case, he was an ugly ogre who had a horrible childhood with parents who abandoned him at the age of ten to fend for himself in a disgusting swamp he was taught to love and call home.  Can you imagine going through that at such a young age?  I cannot either and it makes sense why Shrek has so many boundaries built up.  When he meets Fiona, he feels like she is judging him and over time Shrek created up a huge wall between him and the rest of the world because he thought that no one would ever like him for his true self.  This wall pushed Fiona away in the beginning but soon after, they started to enjoy each others company, even a little bit more than as friends.  Shrek judged Fiona the way he felt like he was judged by her and the everyone else.  He believed she had this amazing life with not a single care or worry in the world when she secretly had a horrible curse upon her transforming her into an ogre every night at sundown.  Fiona had it bad until Shrek came to rescue her from the tower, but Shrek did not know that. He judged her before he could have heard her story.  This lesson, that people needed to accept those for the way they truly are, was a very important one to learn in life.  That is why Shrek was such a successful story; it reminded people that everyone is equal and that judging others will only hold you back in life.