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Last updated at 1:32 AM on 27th May 2011<\/p>\n

Amanda Holden has gone a little Princess crazy. Every inch of her dressing room at London\u2019s\u00a0 Theatre Royal in Drury Lane \u2014where she plays Princess Fiona in Shrek The Musical \u2014 is either pink, gold or fluffy.<\/p>\n

A velvet chaise longue rests against one wall; there\u2019s a rug on the floor that looks like pink grass, and even the fridge is covered in flowery wallpaper.<\/p>\n

\u2018I got a friend who\u2019s an interior designer in and told her I wanted it to look like a princess\u2019s boudoir,\u2019 says Amanda, while cackling in a less-than regal manner. \u2018I\u2019m rather proud of what I did with the fridge \u2014 it\u2019s special stuff you can buy to cover your wheelie bin. I should be on Blue Peter, really.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Ogre<\/p>\n

Ogre the top: Amanda Holden and Nigel Lindsay as Princess Fiona and Shrek<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As Princess Fiona \u2014 who can challenge any ogre when it comes to belching and breaking wind \u2014\u00a0 Amanda has found her perfect role.<\/p>\n

While she comes over fairly well-mannered on Britain\u2019s Got Talent, fellow judges Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan have often talked about her potty mouth.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was made to be Fiona,\u2019 says the 40-year-old\u00a0 actress about her first West End role for seven years. \u2018Most princesses are very old-fashioned, rely on a man for everything, and are waiting for their happy ever after, but Fiona is feisty, funny, and gives as good as she gets.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m cheeky and saucy. I know that most people think that I\u2019m posh \u2014 but really I\u2019m not at all. Plus, I do have a bit of a flatulence problem because I\u2019m a vegetarian.\u2019<\/p>\n

The actress won over the show\u2019s producers when she turned up to the audition with a crash helmet, having hired a motorbike taxi to get her there quickly in between finishing Britain\u2019s Got Talent and flying to Los Angeles, where she\u2019s a correspondent for the CBS news channel.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think they thought doing that was very Fiona,\u2019 she says. \u2018I wasn\u2019t trying to give that impression, but it worked.\u2019<\/p>\n

Three auditions later, she had won the part. \u2018I was in a hotel in Los Angeles watching Everton play when there was a knock at the door,\u2019 she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I was pretty peeved that someone would disturb the game, but it was my agent. She had a bottle of champagne in her hand and Daniel Radcliffe \u2014 who she also represents \u2014 was behind her. She said I had got the part of Fiona, so we had a drink and a little party. It was very glamorous.\u2019<\/p>\n

Amanda, who suffered a miscarriage while seven\u00a0 months pregnant earlier this year, has credited Shrek with putting \u2018a massive smile back on my face\u2019, and it\u2019s easy to see why.<\/p>\n

\"Short:<\/p>\n

Short: Nigel Harman as Lord Farquaad with Amanda Holden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The show, which started previews earlier this month, is a riot of good-natured fun and all the cast appear to be having the time of their lives. But that\u2019s not to say it is easy for any of them.<\/p>\n

Shrek is played by Nigel Lindsay, better known for his serious roles. For this part, he has to spend nearly two hours in make-up every night. He breaks the tedium by watching DVDs of Simon Schama\u2019s A History of Britain.<\/p>\n

But once he gets on stage, things are even worse due to his padded outfit, which is excruciatingly hot. An actor who played Shrek in the U.S. version of the show lost nearly three stone while doing the role.<\/p>\n

\u00a0‘An actor who played Shrek in the U.S. version of the show lost nearly three stone while doing the role.’<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s the most physically demanding thing I\u2019ve ever done, but I\u2019m loving it,\u2019 says the actor, whose dressing-room is nicknamed \u2018the swamp\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Part of it is just the response Shrek gets when I first appear on stage \u2014 there\u2019s a big cheer and that is a really nice thing.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m trying to get the hang of dealing with the heat \u2014 wearing the costume is bloody hard work.<\/p>\n

\u2018At one point I tried wearing an ice jacket, which is what they wear on oil rigs in the desert, but my heart started going like the clappers and I thought I might have a heart attack.<\/p>\n

\u2018Now I have little pockets in my T-shirt that have ice discs in them. I\u2019m on stage most of the time, but every time I come off into the wings the dressers unzip me to let the steam out and then they aim\u00a0 fans all over me to cool me down before I run back on again.\u2019 It is not only Nigel who finds it unpleasant. Amanda says of having to kiss her hero; \u2018It\u2019s not the nicest experience. When we kiss I get drenched in sweat\u2019.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fellow cast member Nigel Harman, 37, who puts in a show-stealing performance as the diminutive baddie Lord Farquaad, spends the entire show acting on his knees.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m always attracted to roles that amuse me and this really did amuse me,\u2019 says the actor who found fame on EastEnders as heart-throb Dennis Rickman. \u2018But I didn\u2019t know how I would do it. It would keep me awake at night.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was thinking: \u201cWhat have I done, signing up to do a show on my knees? I must be nuts.\u201d But so far I\u2019m having an absolute ball.\u2019<\/p>\n

Nigel is hooked up to a contraption known as \u2018the rig\u2019 which has padding around the knee area and braces for his torso which manoeuvre his tiny fake legs.<\/p>\n

\u2018The dance numbers are killer and I come off wheezing like an old man, but I love the camp element of Farquaad,\u2019 he says.<\/p>\n

\"Crowning<\/p>\n

Crowning glory: Amanda Holden tries on a tiara in the make-up room<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018I\u2019m attached to the idea of a mad despot who wants to rule the world but who also loves musical theatre. He\u2019s an incredibly narcissistic man who refuses to acknowledge that he is only 3ft tall.\u2019<\/p>\n

Shrek The Musical follows on from the blockbuster DreamWorks films about Shrek, a grumpy, smelly ogre, who is hiding a heart of gold. The musical focuses on the story from the first film (there are now three sequels) in which the hermit Shrek is forced to face the world when the evil Lord Farquaad exiles \u2018freak\u2019 fairy tale characters from his city and sends them to live in Shrek\u2019s swamp.<\/p>\n

Along the way he finds love with the fiery Princess Fiona \u2014 who is not all she seems \u2014 and friendship with a nice-but-dim donkey, who\u00a0 is played by former television presenter Richard Blackwood.<\/p>\n

\u2018When I got this part, I was so happy I was levitating,\u2019 says Richard. \u2018Donkey reminds me of myself in many ways in that he likes to be liked. But it has still been a challenge playing him because Shrek is so horrible to him and he takes it. I wouldn\u2019t do that.\u2019<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s producers were so keen to have Richard, 39, on board that they put him through five months of singing lessons to prepare for the show.<\/p>\n

The rest of the cast had three months of rehearsals, including singing and vocal coaching, while the complex set \u2014 which includes a castle, several giant books, and a bridge \u2014 was made in ten different workshops.<\/p>\n

Some of the complex costumes, including Humpty Dumpty with his wall and the Three Bears, took three months to make. The show started life on Broadway, but is made by the British Neal Street Productions team headed by Sam Mendes, Kate Winslet\u2019s estranged husband, in association with DreamWorks.<\/p>\n

\u2018Sam has young children and was familiar with how popular the films are,\u2019 says the show\u2019s producer and Sam\u2019s deputy, Caro Newling.<\/p>\n

\u2018He thought the elements in the first story were fantastic and perfect for a musical; there is a love story, a moral about how beautiful isn\u2019t always pretty, and a friendship between Shrek and Donkey. As he already had a relationship with DreamWorks through doing American Beauty and Road To Perdition [the two critically acclaimed films he directed for the company], doing a theatrical show with them was simply something waiting to happen.\u2019<\/p>\n

As well as looking at the films, the theatrical team went back to the first incarnation of Shrek, which started life as a book written by cartoonist William Steig. The name Shrek comes for the Yiddish word for fear.<\/p>\n

As a result, the musical\u2019s characters have far more depth than in the film: we learn why Shrek is such a misanthrope, what Fiona was doing in the tower, and all about Lord Farquaad\u2019s unusual parentage.<\/p>\n

\"All<\/p>\n

All ears: Richard Blackwood being made up as Donkey, behind the scenes at Shrek The Musical<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Caro says: \u2018For the audience, there\u2019s the pleasure of meeting characters they already know and love, and we are also giving them a back story and putting more meat on the bones through songs.\u2019<\/p>\n

The company spent \u00a315\u00a0million on the Broadway production, but it received a tepid response from critics and lasted just a year, although it is still touring the U.S.<\/p>\n

The British Shrek is a very different beast. It costs only \u00a35\u2009million to make and is more about character than theatrics.<\/p>\n

\u2018With the Broadway production we overstuffed the cushion,\u2019 says Caro. \u2018We threw everything at it including the kitchen sink. It was full of wizardry. What we\u2019ve done at Drury Lane is pare it down so that when the \u201cooh-ah\u201d moments happen they really are exciting.\u2019<\/p>\n

These mainly come from Lola, the show\u2019s 25ft dragon, and her 12ft flying counterpart. Laid out on the floor by the side of the stage between shows, she is unbelievably beautiful \u2014 a mesh of pink and purple loose fabric and foam covered with small jewels. Once she\u2019s up and about, she\u2019s not so pretty, as she breathes fire and snorts smoke.<\/p>\n

Another wow factor are the costumes; all 294 of them are totally different.
There\u2019s not enough space in the two wardrobe rooms for all of them; instead they are hung up in \u2018wardrobe village\u2019 \u2014 a specially created, huge library of clothes, wigs and shoes by the side of the stage.<\/p>\n

\u2018There are four key moments in the show when this place is crazy,\u2019 says producer James Triner of wardrobe village.<\/p>\n

\u2018You can get the 16 members of the ensemble all having to get changed in less than two minutes.\u2019<\/p>\n

The wardrobe and wig departments are always busy. At present, wig supervisor Matt George is trying to work out how to keep Donkey\u2019s ears on without having to use a chin strap, while his team are washing and drying the wigs from the previous night\u2019s production \u2014 it\u2019s not just Shrek who gets hot and sweaty.<\/p>\n

Over in wardrobe, meanwhile, Humpty Dumpty\u2019s egg really has cracked, and several foam ribs have started to stick out of one of the three little pigs.<\/p>\n

\u2018We have weird things come up like how to hang Jack And The Beanstalk\u2019s outfit \u2014 which has a huge beanstalk \u2014 while a lot of our time has been spent trying to make changing in and out of the outfits as easy as possible,\u2019 says wardrobe manager Janie Stephenson.<\/p>\n

Amanda has one change from Princess to ogre which has to be done in one minute and 14 seconds. She says: \u2018I stand there in my bra and green knickers and have about three people working on me at the same time. There are hands everywhere.<\/p>\n

\u2018Someone gets a Dulux roller and paints me green while someone else is putting my fat suit on.<\/p>\n

\u2018So far, my prosthetic nose has never been straight and when I get on stage I\u2019m normally seeing green because there is always make-up in my eye.\u2019<\/p>\n

Once the show is finished, it then takes more than an hour for Amanda to get the green make-up off, and even then she normally goes home with a jade tinge to her hair.<\/p>\n

The preview shows have already had several standing ovations, but no one working on it is taking anything for granted after what happened on Broadway.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re hoping that a British audience will really warm to Shrek,\u2019 says Caro.
\u2018The British are more subversive and they laugh out loud at the burping and flatulence jokes. There is a sense of wickedness and irreverence that the British love and relish, and they empathise with Shrek as an everyman.\u2019<\/p>\n

For Amanda, who is scheduled to appear in the show until December, there is also a personal point to prove.<\/p>\n

\u2018I have been in this business for 20 years and I have never not worked \u2014 you can\u2019t stay around for that amount of time if you are rubbish,\u2019 she says.<\/p>\n

\u2018Because I am a judge on Britain\u2019s Got Talent, I\u2019m not afraid of putting myself up for judgement. I hope people like what they see.\u2019<\/p>\n

Shrek The Musical is now in previews at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Opening night is on June 13. For tickets visit: shrekthemusical.co.uk or call 0844 871 8810<\/p>\n

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