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David Shire

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Composer b. 1937

David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. Among his best known works are the motion picture soundtracks to The Big Bus, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Conversation, All the President's Men, and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline". His other work includes the score of the 1985 film Return to Oz (the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz), and the stage musical scores of Baby, Big, Closer Than Ever, and Starting Here, Starting Now. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.

Also credited on1 work

Big

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In the literature8 passages

  • All were set to David Shire’s music that nicely reflected the different age groups. The Tony voters gave it no awards, but after that Sunday closing, community theaters made it their baby.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • DAVID SHIRE has composed music for both film and theater, including the Broadway show Big .ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • DAVID SHIRE: Richard Maltby and I did two off-Broadway shows together, Baby and Closer Than Ever . People from the theater community were saying, “Wow, these guys are comers.” Therefore I think an expectation was set for our next collaboration, Big . People thought it was going to be groundbreaking.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • DAVID SHIRE: We couldn’t destroy this false perception that FAO Schwarz had creative control of the show. In the movie, the store scene is set in FAO Schwarz. What were we supposed to do? Put it in Toys ‘R’ Us?ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • DAVID SHIRE: It turned out he was a political reporter, and the thrust of his piece was about the tie-in with FAO Schwarz. It was a hatchet job.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • DAVID SHIRE: From the day we opened, our approval rating was as high as 85 or 90 percent. Yet only 8 percent of our audience was coming from Manhattan. It seems that sophisticated theater people wrote us off. Out of town, the fact that it was a kids’ show was a plus. But in New York that was somehow turned into a minus. We were nominated…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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