Shrek Books the Broadway; Foster, Sieber & Lewis-Evans Sign On

According to Variety, the stage adaptation of the animated smash Shrek has booked the Broadway Theatre, soon to be vacated by The Color Purple, where it will open on December 14. Sutton Foster, Christopher Sieber and Kecia Lewis-Evans, who all appeared in recent readings of the show, have signed on to star.

Foster, who will play Princess Fiona, won a flurry of awards—a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Astaire Award and three Broadway.com Audience Awards—for her star role in Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002. She has subsequently been nominated for Tonys for her leading turns in Little Women and The Drowsy Chaperone and is currently playing sexpot lab assistant Inga in Young Frankenstein.

Currently back playing Sir Dennis in Spamalot, the role that earned him a 2005 Tony Award nomination, Sieber is a Broadway musical comedy favorite. He made his debut in 1997's Triumph of Love and has been notably seen in such shows as Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Chicago. He is also known as the TV dad to twins Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen on the sitcom Two of a Kind. In Shrek, he will play Lord Farquaad.

Lewis-Evans, who has been cast as the Dragon, was last seen alongside Foster in the original cast of The Drowsy Chaperone, playing Trix, the aviatrix. She made her Broadway debut as a standby in Ain't Misbehavin in 1988 and went on to playing Asaka in Once on This Island.

The pivotal roles of Shrek and Donkey have not yet been cast.

Shrek starts previews on November 8.

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