FROZEN Composers and Neil Patrick Harris Team Up for Paul Ryan's Inner Monologue Song

Following in the footsteps of Sara Bareilles' song written from President Obama's point of view (and featuring vocals from Tony Winner Leslie Odom Jr.), This American Life commissioned Frozen songwriters, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, to write a song as the inner monologue of Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

The couple obliged and recruited Neil Patrick Harris to sing the number, which some are saying could be Ryan's 2020 campaign song. Featuring lyrics such as, "The truth sets in but the dream persists/I don't believe you're all white nationalists...," the track, titled "Will I Know Anyone At This Party Anymore," covers Ryan's possible thoughts on the current state of the Republican Party. The song particularly focuses on Trump, although the Presidential candidate's name is never explicitly mentioned.

Kristen Anderson-Lopez won an Oscar for Let It Go from Frozen, which she co-wrote the score for with her husband. With husband Robert Lopez, she co-wrote Finding Nemo: The Musical (playing at Walt Disney World since 2006), the Broadway-bound original musical Up Here and songs for Winnie the Pooh (Disney feature animation, 2011). Her Drama Desk Award-winning musical, In Transit, begins previews on Broadway next month. She is currently adapting Frozen for the stage with her husband and the film's screenplay writer and director, Jennifer Lee.

Robert's first two Broadway musicals, Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, have both been critical and commercial smash hits and Best Musical Tony Award winners. He shared Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book for The Book of Mormon. He also shared a Tony for Best Original Score and a Grammy nomination for Avenue Q, which he co-wrote and conceived. He shared two Emmy Awards for his music for "The Wonder Pets" and an Emmy nomination for the "Scrubs" musical episode. Member BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild, WGA, AEA, Yale grad, native NY'er. He is now an EGOT-Winner, having received the Best Original Song Oscar for "Let It Go" from Frozen, which he co-wrote with his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez. They are currently adapting Frozen for the stage.

Neil Patrick Harris made his Broadway debut opposite Anne Hechein the Pulitzer-Prize winning drama, Proof. In 2014, Harris won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the title character in the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Harris also starred on Broadway as the . His additional theatrical credits include the Emcee in Cabaret, the Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald in the Tony Award-winning production of Assassins, All My Sons, Tick, Tick...Boom, The Paris Letter, Sweeney Todd, Rent, and Romeo and Juliet. Harris made his theatrical directorial debut with I Am Grock at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. He has also served as host of the Tony Awards Ceremony.

Check out a fan-made lyric video of the song below:

For the full episode of This American Life on which the song originally appeared, click here.

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