Shrek the Musical
Prices
Tickets: $41.50–$111.50, premium $301.50
Description
The latest singing-green-monster star to be minted on Broadway is Shrek, the grouchy, stinky, nasty-looking ogre made famous in a series of DreamWorks animated films. There’s a lot to enjoy in the lavish stage version, arguably the best musical for younger audiences since The Lion King. Brian d’Arcy James labors heroically under inches of latex, Daniel Breaker and Christopher Sieber camp it up shamelessly, and Sutton Foster is, as always, delightfully spunky. So much of this snarky-sweet fable is good—including Jeanine Tesori’s fresh pop music and David Lindsay-Abaire’s clever lyrics—that you can’t help wishing the whole package was just a bit better.—AF
When
Sundays 2pm, 7pm
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Tuesdays 7pm
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Wednesdays 2pm
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Thursdays 8pm
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Fridays 8pm
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Saturdays 2pm, 8pm
Through Jan 3 2010.