SHREK THE MUSICAL Announces Global Tour - Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and More!

Broadway Entertainment Group FZ LLC and NETworks Presentations LLC are pleased to announce their first ever, global tour of the English language production of SHREK THE MUSICAL with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori. The production begins its journey in Istanbul, Turkey on the 22nd January, 2016 and will tour to diverse markets including Europe, the Middle East and Asia to cities including; Abu Dhabi, Jakarta and Singapore to name a few.

Broadway Entertainment Group FZ LLC and NETworks Presentations LLC continue their success as the most experienced touring theatrical companies on the international stage. This powerful combination of producing expertise and global distribution allows the team to offer the finest theatrical productions in new and emerging markets.

"SHREK The Musical marks the anniversary of our partnership with NETworks Presentations as we continue to deliver first-class productions. Our new approach to touring has reinvented the traditional model of live theatrical distribution, creating a framework for delivering quality titles to an extended network of international presenters and venues" says Liz Koops, Broadway Entertainment Group.

Ken Gentry of NETworks Presentations says "we are thrilled to be launching our second international tour with Broadway Entertainment Group. Following the success of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Shrek The Musical, with its wide appeal toward all audiences around the world, seemed the perfect choice for our next international venture. NETworks is thrilled be able to bring this top quality production into markets like Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Jakarta and Singapore".

SHREK THE MUSICAL is based on the Oscar®-winning DreamWorks Animation film that started it all. This live adaptation brings the hilarious story of everyone's favorite ogre to the stage. In a far away kingdom turned upside down, things get ugly when an ogre - not a handsome prince - shows up to rescue a feisty princess. Throw in a donkey that does not keep quiet, a villain with a short temper, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you've got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand and his name is Shrek.

SHREK THE MUSICAL features a book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize® winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Good People), music by Olivier Award-winner Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Caroline, or Change). SHREK THE MUSICAL is choreographed by Chris Bailey and directed by Stephen Sposito who served as Associate Director of the Broadway revival How To Succeed In Business starring Daniel Radcliff. Costumes are the Tony Award® winner designs by Tim Hatley (Private Lives, Spamalot).

This production of SHREK THE MUSICAL is produced by Broadway Entertainment Group FZ LLC and NETworks Presentations LLC.

Broadway Entertainment Group is the world's first ever theatrical distribution company to consolidate an international circuit and bring top quality entertainment into emerging markets. Broadway Entertainment Group is breaking new ground and rapidly expanding into the markets of the Middle East, Commonwealth Independent States, South and Central Asia and Latin America.

Chief Executive Officer Liz Koops as produced shows internationally for over 20 years, with touring productions in over 37 countries. Currently, Broadway Entertainment Group is touring Disney's Beauty and the Beast, SHREK The Musical, Sister Act, The Birmingham Repertory Theatre production of The Snowman and Dein Perry's Tap Dogs. During her tenure as Managing Director of Clear Channel (now Live Nation), Liz was instrumental in establishing the European and Asian Touring circuit for first-class musicals.

Previous productions include: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mathew Bourne's Swan Lake, Fosse, Cats, Chicago - The Musical, Miss Saigon, Gumboots, Slava's Snowshow, Bounce, Lady Salsa, Circus Oz, Lano and Woodley, Mum's the Word, Rudy Coby, Shaolin Kung Fu Monks and Jerry Seinfeld World Tour.

Broadway Entertainment Group FZ LLC currently has offices in New York, London, Dubai and Australia. For more information about Broadway Entertainment Group FZ LLC, please visit, www.broadwayentertainmentgroup.com.

ABOUT NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS LLC (Producer)

NETworks Presentations LLC (NETworks) from its inception nearly 20 years ago has been an industry leading producer and manager of touring musical theatre productions and remains committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide. Having toured over 60 productions throughout North America, NETworks is now expanding its tours into international markets including South America, Europe, South East Asia, and the Middle East. Current touring productions include Cameron Mackintosh's The Phantom of the Opera, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Dirty Dancing, Blue Man Group, Elf the Musical, Bullets Over Broadway, Love Letters, Once the Musical and international tours of Beauty and the Beast and Shrek The Musical. www.networkstours.com

DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE (Book & Lyrics) nominated for two Tony Awards for his work on Shrek The Musical: Best Book of a Musical and Best Score (with composer Jeanine Tesori). Prior to that he was awarded the 2008 Ed Kleban Award as America's most promising musical theatre lyricist and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Rabbit Hole, which premiered on Broadway at MTC's Biltmore Theatre. Rabbit Hole also received five Tony Award nominations, including Best Play, and the Spirit of America Award. His other shows include Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World, High Fidelity and A Devil Inside, among others. In addition to his work in theatre, David's screen adaptation of Rabbit Hole stars Nicole Kidman and is directed by John Cameron Mitchell. David is a proud New Dramatists alum, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School, as well as a member of the WGA and the Dramatists Guild Council.

JEANINE TESORI (Music) has written four Tony-nominated scores for Broadway: Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan), Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner), and Shrek the Musical (lyrics, David Lindsay-Abaire). The production of Caroline, or Change at the National Theater in London received the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Her first off-Broadway musical, Violet, written with Brian Crawley, received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1997. Last fall, Ms. Tesori's FUN HOME was presented at The Public Theater as part of the 2012-2013 Public Lab Season. A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck, her commission for the MET/LCT Opera/Theater, was featured at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2011. She has been the recipient of many other honors including Drama Desk and Obie awards, and was cited by ASCAP as being the first woman composer to have "two new musicals running concurrently on Broadway." She composed the music for The New York Shakespeare Festival's production of Brecht's Mother Courage, as translated by Tony Kushner, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. She has written songs for the movie Shrek The Third. Her film scores include Nights in Rodanthe, Winds of Change, Show Business, Wrestling With Angels, and Every day with Liev Schreiber. She has produced sixty CD's for Silver-Burdett Ginn's Making Music and the original cast albums for Twelfth Night, Violet and Caroline, or Change. Ms. Tesori is currently working on a new opera for WNO.

STEPHEN SPOSITO (Director) As Director: Shrek The Musical (US Tour), The Obie Awards, The American Theatre Wing Gala (Honoring, Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones, and Hal Prince). Associate Director: The Book of Mormon, Wicked, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof starring Scarlett Johansson and How To Succeed In Business starring Daniel Radcliff. Other credits include: Promises, Promises (Broadway); Shrek The Musical (Broadway); Dogfight (Second Stage); Parade (Mark Taper Forum); Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall); Speech and Debate (Roundabout Theatre Company); 81st Annual Academy Awards. Graduate of The University of Michigan.

DREAMWORKS THEATRICALS DreamWorks Theatricals, a division of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., was established in 2007 to develop and execute live stage and arena show productions inspired by the Company's franchise properties.

WILLIAM STEIG (Author of the book Shrek!). Named the "King of Cartoons" by Newsweek, William Steig remains The New Yorker's longest-running contributor, with more than 1,600 drawings and 117 covers to his name. He began writing and illustrating books for children at the age of 60. His work Sylvester and the Magic Pebble earned him the Caldecott Medal, the highest honor bestowed on children's picture books, but it was the 1990 fairy tale Shrek! That ultimately brought him his largest audience by inspiring one of the most successful film franchises in motion picture history. William Steig wrote and illustrated children's books up until the last year of his life and died in 2003 at the age of 96.

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