Shrek the Musical

Shrek the Musical (2013) is the filmed Broadway production you can watch online on iFILM. The big green ogre is back — only this time he sings, in a live stage capture of the show built from the animated hit.

Shrek's swamp gets overrun when Lord Farquaad banishes every fairy-tale misfit onto his land. To win it back, the ogre sets off to rescue Princess Fiona from a dragon-guarded tower, a motor-mouthed Donkey tagging along the whole way. Brian d'Arcy James sings under the prosthetics, Sutton Foster gives Fiona a secret of her own, and Christopher Sieber plays Farquaad as a tiny man with enormous plans.

With songs by Jeanine Tesori and a book by David Lindsay-Abaire, the show picked up Tony nominations during its Broadway run, and this capture keeps the costumes, the puppetry and the live pit orchestra intact. It's the easiest way to hand kids a familiar story in a fresh shape, and a fair excuse for parents to sing along. Stream Shrek the Musical (2013) online on iFILM.