Based on William Steig’s novel and Dreamworks’ popular animated film, ‘Shrek the Musical’ follows the adventures of Shrek, a lovable swamp-dwelling ogre; his wisecracking sidekick, Donkey; the lovely Princess Fiona; Lord Farquaad and a chorus of everybody’s favorite fractured fairytale creatures. With more layers than ever and a completely original new score, ‘Shrek the Musical’ proves that there’s more to the story than meets the ears. – TheaterSource

The production staff at Hair Compounds spent a couple of months bleaching, dyeing, blending and finishing literally pounds of custom European hair for the character wigs worn for Shrek the musical.

Although they didn’t use only our custom European hair for all the characters it was definitely quite a lot of them. We worked on Lord Farquaad, the Ladies in waiting, the mermaids, Peter Pan, the Flower girls and many other characters.

Everyone had fun picking out bundles and imagining it as the finished wigs for Farquaad and wondering if the actor was horizontally challenged and if he would get a crick in his neck for wearing a wig with a full pound of hair in it.

Victoria Wood, Emmy nominated wigmaker and one of our favorite people, wove her magic (or should we say ventilated magic) turning out many of the character wigs for this great musical.