Tony Award Winner Marc Shaiman Pens Music And Lyrics To 'Bob The Musical'

By: BWW News Desk Nov. 04, 2005

Tony-winning composer-lyricist Marc Shaiman has signed on to write the music and lyrics for Disney's "Bob the Musical" according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Mean Girls' Mark Waters will direct the comedy about a mild-mannered man who suddenly hears the "inner song" of people's hearts after sustaining a head injury.

Marc told the Hollywood Reporter, "Once I read the script, I felt I had to do it. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time."

Shaiman is a Tony Award Winner as composer and co-lyricist on Broadway's "Hairspray," and a five-time Academy Award nominee for such films as "The First Wives Club" and "The American President." Along with his partner, Scott Wittman, he is also working on bringing "Catch Me If You Can" to Broadway.

On why characters sing on stage and in particular "Bob the Musical" Shaiman replied, "The emotions are so strong that dialogue is not enough. It takes that and shows it in a literal sense and a magical sense. And each person he comes across, male and female, has a different point of view and different emotion, and they'll be different generationally and socially, so each song will be unique. It's our way to have our cake and eat it, too, with many different styles."

No theatrical release date has been announced as of yet.

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