Oct 28 2009 04:00 AM ET

'Shrek the Musical' headed for DVD release

Categories: Film, News, Stage

DreamWorks Animation is planning a DVD release of its Broadway show Shrek the Musical, according to The Hollywood Reporter. During a presentation of third-quarter financial results, CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg noted that Shrek the Musical was filmed about 10 days ago and will be released on DVD in “unique packaging,” THR noted. As EW previously reported, the show ends its Broadway run on Jan. 3.

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  • JPX

    I can’t imagine anything I would want to watch less.

    • Anonymous.

      Have you ever SEEN the show? It’s incredible. Don’t go making judgements unless you’ve seen this amazing, beautiful, and moving show.

  • Hayley

    I’m buying this, watching it ten times, and remember all the good times I had last December~

  • John

    A Broadway show getting preserved on DVD is always a good thing, not matter what. I hope Sutton Foster was still in it when they filmed it.

    • Anonymous.

      She was. :)

    • Andrew

      She’s going to be with the show till it closes. Brian d’Arcy James who plays Shrek is leaving the show November 8 which was after the filming took place.

      • Andrew

        I meant which IS after the filming took place. Brian was there for the filming.

  • orville

    I wish they’d do this for more Broadway shows (especially with the original casts).

  • Andrew

    I’m going to the national tour next year in Dallas and I’m also getting this DVD.

  • Tony

    This is great news!! It’s amazing this got filmed!… More Broadway shows should do this.

  • Muso123

    Hoorah! Wonderful news!

    I agree it would be nice if more musicals (not just Broadway ones, there are a wealth of other brilliant shows outside of the US you know!) did this. However it’s unlikely. ‘Shrek’ is a rare exception as they have a movie studio as producers. As a movie studio Dreamworks has exactly the sort of annual revenue and resources to get a show filmed, sort out the legal issues with the writer’s agents, actors agents and their respective unions and arrange residual payment deals.

  • Jeremy Odden

    I saw it 3 times while it was in Seattle: Once in previews, once on opening night, and once on the last weekend. IT GOT BETTER AND BETTER, AND I’M TOTALLY GETTING THIS DVD!!!!!!

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