Coming To Broadway!
Filed under: Broadway Babies
The speculation is over. It's official!
Shrek is coming to Broadway.
And a projected date has already been set!
Shrek the musical has book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori. The show is being directed by Jason Moore.
"It's the plot of the first Shrek movie," says Moore. "But because we are going deeper into the emotional lives and back stories of the characters, we reveal things about them that none of the movies revealed."
The show will play an out-of-town tryout at Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theatre August 14th through September 21st. It will open on Broadway some time in November.
The state of new and "original" musicals is dire.
Posted: January 22, 2008 at 2:37 pm



cool beans
FIRST!
ok now that im first for once. i just have to say. can dumb assholes stop fucking stop writing first!!!!…….hahaha first!!!!……..hehhehhohoo…..first!!!!. its the stupidest thing i've ever seen.
FIRST
Oh yeah first
aww cute!
I love Shrek, he is so cute! If they put Aiken in this show, I'll riot!
15?!?!?!
squirrel showing off
sky rat try hard food to taste
him now toilet brush
why do you give a shit what I post
I WANNA BE FIRST!!!!
1ST
first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome!
yay it's coming to Seattle… have to catch a preview of that. hope it's any good…
I hate PEREZ HILTON FUCK YOU DOUCHE BAG!
ugh. why does seattle always get stuck with crappy preview runs??
First!
first! i would go and see
Yay! I'm bringing the kids!
FIRSSST
Who cares 1stish
HEY LOOK ITS PEREZ AND BRITNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOL
Wow. This was reported two or three days ago from other sources…not so up to the minute are we?
Yeah Perez, Originality no longer lives.
Maybe Rosie O'Donnell can play Shrek!! LOL!! How about a "Separated At Birth" side by side???
Thos movies are so fucking stupid and musicals suck balls so this will a retarded ball-suck.
THE STATE OF NEW AND ORIGINAL MUSICALS IS NOT "DIRE"—-IT'S NOT ABLE TO HAPPEN B/C BROADWAY PRODUCERS ARE NOT LETTING THEM HAPPEN WITHOUT BIG NAMED RETARDS STARRING IN THEM!!! BROADWAY IS GOING TO SHIT DUE TO RIDICULOUS TICKET PRICES AND PRODUCERS WANTING AMERICAN IDOL REJECTS UP IN LIGHTS INSTEAD OF THEATRICALLY-TRAINED PROFESSIONALS
Hey … there are a bunch of Idol rejects just looking for the opportunity. Sorry Clay is taken.
Re: Perez Lover – Hey; that's very insulting to Shrek!! Rosie's gut is much bigger and she is way more ANNOYING!! LOL!!
UHHHHHHH…..WHY ? WTF !!!!!
OMG… i swore that was Jayz when i first took a glimpse at it…
That's who you look like Perez, I've been tryin to figure it out all along… SHREK!
Ughhhh. I heard about this over a year ago and I was PRAYING it wasn't true. Clearly, the higher power has abandoned me.
I hear Sutton Foster and Christopher Sieber are coined for this.
I love them both, but I'm so sick of Disney/Cartoon Junk on Broadway.
What happened to real theatre?
Film->Theatre is something I had to adjust to.
Maybe I'll adjust to this crap.
disaster
Paint you green and you could be the lead!
Who gives a shit? It's fucking Broadway.
It's Hollywood vs Broadway
Oh lord, like the stupid movies weren't lame enough.
ohkay. my mother works for 5th Ave and I think it will be great fun for a family.
Don't be so quick. They've been talking about the "definite" Spider-Man and Batman musicals for years now and I ain't seen shit.
FUCKING GAG ME!
gross! omg they cant even keep RENT on Broadway and they are bringing frickin Shrek to Broadway?!? god come on!!