TV: He's Timeless To Us - Happy Birthday Marc Shaiman!

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Multi award-winning music master Marc Shaiman celebrates a very special event today, October 22nd...his 50th birthday!

All of us here at BWW send our very best birthday greetings to our friend and legendary talent and hope he has a wonderful day celebrating with family and friends!

Marc Shaiman has earned five Academy Award nominations, a Tony Award and a Grammy Award for his work on the musical Hairspray, and an Emmy Award for co-writing Billy Crystal's Academy Award hosting performances. His film credits include Broadcast News, Beaches, When Harry Met Sally..., City Slickers, The Addams Family, Sister Act, Sleepless In Seattle, A Few Good Men, The American President, The First Wives Club, George of the Jungle, In & Out, Patch Adams, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Team America: World Police and HBO's From the Earth to the Moon, and 61*. He frequently works on films by Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, and Trey Parker, and has also appeared on screen in many of these films. He also wrote the viral media sensation PROP 8 THE MUSICAL which became a massive hit on FunnyOrDie.com and received a live Broadway premiere on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at the Gershwin Theatre as a special part of the "Defying Inequality- The Broadway Concert, A Celebrity Benefit for Equal Rights."

Shaiman recently presented the out of town production of his new musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN which celebrated its World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre.