Amanda's Got Talent
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**Amanda Holden** has been confirmed as Princess Fiona in **Shrek the Musical**.
Cutting It star and Britain's Got Talent judge **Amanda Holden** will star in the **West End** musical adaptation of the popular Dreamworks film franchise **Shrek**. The show will open in May 2011 at [**The Theatre Royal Drury Lane**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/11/Theatre-Royal-Drury-Lane.aspx) with tickets going onsale to the public on the 1st October this year. The musical is directed by **Robert Ashford** with music by **Jeanine Tesori**, book and lyrics by **David Lindsay-Abaire**. It is produced by **Caro Newley** for Neal Street Productions and **Bill Damaschke** for DreamWorks Theatricals.
Amanda will join comedian **Richard Blackwood** in the production who will play the role of Donkey. **Blackwood** had his own Channel 4 comedy series The Richard Blackwood Show and was recently onstage at the Novello Theatre in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof alongside James Earl Jones and The Cosby Show's Phylicia Rashad. **Holden** was nominated as Best Actress In A Musical for her performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie at The Shaftesbury Theatre in 2003.