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Shrek the Musical, based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks film that started it all, brings the hilarious story of everyone's favorite ogre to life on the Broadway stage.

In a faraway kingdom turned upside down, things get ugly when an unseemly ogre - not a handsome prince - shows up to rescue a feisty princess. Throw in a donkey who won't shut up, a bad guy with a SHORT temper, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you've got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand, and his name is Shrek.

Shrek the Musical features a terrific score of 19 all-new songs and a cast of 27 that Newsday calls "extraordinary." Full of big laughs, great dancing and breathtaking scenery, Shrek the Musical is part romance, part twisted fairy tale and all irreverent fun for everyone!

 

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Dayton, OH Victoria Theatre-OH1/15/2013 - 1/27/2013
Salt Lake City, UT Capitol Theatre-UT2/27/2013 - 3/03/2013
South Bend, IN Morris Performing Arts Center2/09/2013 - 2/09/2013


Q&A With David Lindsay-Abaire

See what David Lindsay-Abaire, the book and lyrics writer of Shrek The Musical says about taking a wildly popular film from film to stage.

Q: Was it at all daunting for you to transform this wildly popular film into an equally loveable stage version?

A: I think the thing that makes it less scary is the amazing heart of the story, which was there in the Steig book. Obviously the humor is there and we all love the irreverence, but it's also an emotionally driven story and, at the end of the day, those are the best things in a musical. You wait for the moment in a musical when a song is going to crack open a character's heart and the audience has the opportunity to see inside of it. Shrek... has the depth to it that allows it to be different from the movie so long as that heart is there. That's what we've done; we've worked hard to make it our own. We love the source material, and it is the Shrek you know and love, but we also had to let go of it and make it our own and DreamWorks has been fantastic and supporting of that.

Q: And in what ways did you try to make it your own? What did you push yourselves to do and what did you discover about the material that you have drawn on?

A: Well, we were always asking ourselves: "What is it saying? Where is the moment you want to hear the characters sing?" In addition to that we ask: "What don't we know?" There are a lot of questions that the movie and the book raise that we were sort of curious about.

Princess Fiona, for example--how long has she been in the tower and what does she do all day? How does she get there? Who put her there? And you'll see that there is a song where we find out what this girl has been pining after for 23 years or however long she's been in that tower. And, Farquaad--what is his issue with those fairytale creatures and where did that come from? Those are all questions we answer in the musical version of this story.