Cecilia Heston

Eighteen months after the Broadway opening of a show that was shrill, insecure, overproduced and overly anxious to please, the second iteration of “Shrek the Musical,” which opened Sunday night at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, has finally discovered a human scale.

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It’s not that rare for a small Chicago theater to produce an intimate, low-budget version of a Broadway musical, and do so with copious amounts of competence, creativity and truth.

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Amra-Faye Wright and Carol Woods return to the cast of the Tony-winning revival of Chicago July 13 in the roles of, respectively, Velma Kelly and Matron “Mama” Morton.

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