Marc Shaiman

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on5 works

Hairspray
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Some Like It Hot
Catch Me If You Can
Smash

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In the literature8 passages

• In 2003–2004, composer and colyricist Marc Shaiman, colyricist Scott Wittman, director Jack O’Brien, associate director Matt Lenz, choreographer Jerry Mitchell, cast members Kerry Butler and Linda Hart, and lead producer Margo Lion had a Tony-winning smash with Hairspray. It ran 2,642 performances.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• No one working in musical theater in the twenty-first century is better than Marc Shaiman at understanding the sounds of the swinging sixties (before they really started swinging by decade’s end). He is so adept at pastiche that pistachio must be his favorite ice cream.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• “It was the gayest Tony Awards show ever, including composer Marc Shaiman kissing his love and lyricist.… But why did Shaiman say gay people aren’t allowed to marry ‘in this world’? Has he never heard of France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, a growing number of others, including soon Germany? The United States is not the world.”—DELPHINE ROSA…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• Left to right: Dick Gallagher, Marc Shaiman, and Scott Wittman—all three deep and dear friends—the creative team for my Carnegie Hall solo debut .ebooks/Lupone, Patti/Patti LuPone - Patti Lupone.txt
• First, we talked about the Marc Shaiman/Scott Wittman/Terrence McNally musical Catch Me If You Can , which is the reading he's doing right now. He said he's done so many readings of it that he now feels like he's doing a revival! He's playing the Tom Hanks character from the movie and thinks the show's gonna be great . Of course, Norbert…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 1 - Seth Rudetsky.txt
• The Marc Shaiman. Emperor of the Oscar-night parody medley (something extremely dear to my heart); composer of my favorite movie score of all time (City Slickers ); with his partner, Scott Wittman, the Tony-Award winning writer of Hairspray, and more pertinently, of Bombshell, Smash’s musical-within-a-musical about Marilyn Monroe. Oh, and…ebooks/Shukert, Rachel/Let Me Be Your Star - Rachel Shukert.txt

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