Making Shrek into a stage musical was a bad idea not because it wasn’t successful — the show ran for more than a year on Broadway, had a U.S. tour and will have a West End tour in 2011 — but more because no one really likes the idea of a man dressed in a green ogre suit. Not unless it’s Halloween. TIME’s theater critic Richard Zoglin wrote of the stage version, “Without the speed and dexterity of the digital palette, everything that was light and offhand in Shrek on-screen becomes heavy and in-your-face in Shrek onstage.” There’s something about animated farts that just seems far more palatable.
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