The run closed January 3, 2010
- Opened
- 2008
- Closed
- January 3, 2010
- Performances
- 441
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 52nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Shrek the Musical 2 more that season
| 2011 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2013 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it35 named
Brian D Arcy James
Cameron Adams
Haven Burton
Jennifer Cody
Ryan Duncan
Sarah Jane Everman
Aymee Garcia
Lisa Ho
Danette Holden
Marty Lawson
Marissa O Donnell
Denny Paschall
Greg Reuter
Noah Rivera
Rachel Stern
Dennis Stowe
Rozi Baker
Maya Goldman
Brian Gonzales
Colleen Hawks
Frankie Paparone
Keven Quillon
Maia Nkenge Wilson
12 of these 35 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
Eric Petersen Shrek
Haven Burton Princess Fiona
Daniel Breaker Donkey
David F.M. Vaughn Lord Farquaad
Blakely Slaybaugh Pinocchio
Haven Burton Aymee Garcia Rachel Stern Dragon
Aymee Garcia Gingy
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Jason Moore
- Choreographer
- Josh Prince
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Shrek the Musical is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation film Shrek, along with elements of its sequels: Shrek 2, Shrek Forever After and William Steig's 1990 book Shrek!. After a trial run in Seattle, the original Broadway production opened in December 2008 and closed after a run of over 12 months in January 2010. It was followed by a tour of the United States which opened in 2010, and a re-vamped West End production from June 2011 to February 2013. A high definition filming of the Broadway production, shot by RadicalMedia, was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download on October 15, 2013, in N…
First Preview: November 8, 2008; Opening Night: December 13, 2008; Closed January 3, 2010; 37 previews, 441 performances Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 112
Warren, Shrek the Musical. All further quotes from Shrek are from this filmed version.
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 287- Nominees: Shrek The Musical (Decca Broadway) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 442
- Shrek The Musical 108, 199, 438 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 574
- DreamWorks Pictures makes its first foray into Broadway producing with a stage adaptation of its popular animated film Shrek, starring Brian d’Arcy James as the green ogre of the title, Sutton Foster as the princess he saves, and Daniel Breaker as his donkey sidekick. Shrek The Musical has a score by Jeanine Tesori and… The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2008 May 2009 Fifth Robert Viagas 5th Annual, p. 11
- Christopher Sieber with the Shrek bear from Shrek The Musical. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2008 May 2009 Fifth Robert Viagas 5th Annual, p. 411
- Billy Elliot, The Musical 10 Shrek The Musical | The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2008 May 2009 Fifth Robert Viagas 5th Annual, p. 416
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Shrek the Musical at all.
- No show page for Shrek the Musical. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.