How ‘Shrek’ Was Turned Into a Broadway Musical

NYTimes.com: "In previews the show has been clocking in at two and a half hours, a full hour more than the movie. The original children’s book by William Steig, published in 1990, is a lot shorter. A reader in a hurry can canter through it aloud in about 5 minutes 34 seconds. That would do scant justice to Steig’s pictures, which have layers of their own, though Steig never mentioned onions."