WHO WILL BE SHREK ON BROADWAY?

Shrek hopefuls came to audition for an open-call workshop for Shrek, The Musical on Broadway.

An open-call audition for a workshop for the upcoming Broadway show Shrek, The Musical was held at Chelsea Studios in New York.

Many hopefuls waited patiently for their chance to sing out for the part of the lovable green ogre named Shrek like Ira Gonzalez, and Casey Jones.

Ira: “I don’t know if I’m gonna be the next Shrek. I hope to be. It’s a shot in the dark for me. Like I said I’ve been away from this for so long. I hope to be it’s in my blood. I’ve been doing theater for 20 years. Casey: “I do voice-overs. I have a wide variety of accents, imitations and I do voices and Shrek’s on the list. ‘Shut up Donkey that’s all you have to say and bingo and there he is.’ Also I was kind of hoping they were perhaps casting for the Gingerbread Man or something like that, it wouldn’t be horrible.”

Some of the candidates took time off from their day jobs for a chance to light up Broadway, even former Cleveland Browns football player Bill Duff.

Bill: “If I get the role I jump off the house and me and my wife hug and move to north Jersey. I mean it’s Shrek. It’s gonna run. I don’t know how long it’s gonna run but as I said if I get the role kudos to me. Ira: My boss gave me the rest of the afternoon off to try. He knows that I sing and act and things like that. He said, ‘you know what take the rest of the day off. If you make it I could say I knew you when.’”

Shrek The Musical will be helmed by American Beauty award winning director Sam Mendes and directed by Jason Moore who won a Tony for Avenue Q.