TV Exclusive: Meet the 2013 Tony Nominees- Benj Pasek & Justin Paul 'Freaking Out' to Meet Their Fellow Nominees!

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BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet & Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, nominees for Best Score for A Christmas Story. Check out what they had to say below!

Their works include: Dogfight (Second Stage Theatre, dir. Joe Mantello, chor. Christopher Gattelli), James and the Giant Peach (Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices, Goodspeed Musicals, dir. Graciela Daniele, chor. Pilobolus), Edges (licensed by Music Theatre International, 200+ productions worldwide including South Korea, Australia, China, South Africa, the Philippines, Denmark and more), Sesame Street, Johnny & the Sprites (Disney TV series), Duck for President and If You Give a Pig a Pancake(Theatreworks USA) and a new musical with playwright Steven Levenson. Their songs can be heard on the upcoming season of NBC's hit series Smash. Honors include: 2011 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2011 Sundance Institute Fellowship, 2011 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, 2011 ASCAP Songwriters Fellowship Award, 2007-2008 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, 2007 Jonathan Larson Award, Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, Dramatist Magazine's "50 to Watch." BFA, University of Michigan, Musical Theatre.

The story from a cherished movie classic that's enchanted millions is now a musical spectacular. In 1940's Indiana, a bespectacled boy named Ralphie has a big imagination and one wish for Christmas-a Red Ryder BB Gun. A kooky leg lamp, outrageous pink bunny pajamas, a cranky department store Santa, and a triple-dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole are just a few of the obstacles that stand between Ralphie and his Christmas dream. Co-produced by the film's original Ralphie, Peter Billingsley, A Christmas Story, The Musical is holiday entertainment that captures a simpler time in America with delicious wit and a heart of gold.

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