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'Shrek' director keeps tinkering with fairy tale

23.09.11

For a guy who has spent most of this decade working on and off a project, you'd think Stephen Sposito might be tired of it by now. He insists he's not.

The project is "Shrek: The Musical," a national touring production of which comes to town Tuesday for eight performances. The musical, with Sposito as assistant director, ran for 441 performances on Broadway, from December 2008 to January 2010. Sposito is now national tour director.

"I think this show's been in development for eight years," he said in a telephone interview from Portland, where he was launching the current tour. "It's a long road from idea to now."

Sposito said he "started working on it when it was a reading of Act 1. I've seen it from ideas to where it is now, a fully realized production. Doing a musical from the group up is very creative. You and your team have to figure out everything."

Sposito said the production that will come to Sacramento – he won't be with it, as he'll fly back to New York to resume his role as assistant director on the Broadway show "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" – "has the benefit of all that's gone before. We've made changes all along the way, done something a little different from the Broadway production to the London production to now.

Source: Sacramento Bee