{"id":61708,"date":"2025-05-06T19:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=61708"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:19:14","slug":"shrek-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/shrek-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrek the Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The always excellent Abu Dhabi Choral Group, the city&#8217;s best-established and best-regarded community theatre company, offers this &#8220;hilarious and heartwarming&#8221; adaptation of the popular film, a successful Broadway and West End musical (music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire). It&#8217;s based on the first film, albeit with elements of the sequels: so we have the grumpy but lovable ogre embarking on a quest to rescue the feisty Princess Fiona for the scheming Lord Farquaad. Along the way, Shrek is joined by a lively cast of fairytale characters, including his wisecracking sidekick Donkey. There&#8217;s a message \u2013 &#8220;they challenge stereotypes, discover the meaning of friendship, and prove that beauty lies within &#8230; <em>Shrek The Musical<\/em> celebrates individuality and self-acceptance&#8221; but it&#8217;s the jokes, the repartee, the songs and the sheer fun that will get you applauding for encores &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There are further shows on 30 and 31 May at 7.30pm and on 31 May and 1 June at 2pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The always excellent Abu Dhabi Choral Group, the city&#8217;s best-established and best-regarded community theatre company, offers this &#8220;hilarious and heartwarming&#8221; adaptation of the popular film, a successful Broadway and West End musical (music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/shrek-the-musical\/\" title=\"Shrek the Musical\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[91],"class_list":["post-61708","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-musical","cat_musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61708"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=61708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}