Entertainment News
2005-11-05
Marc Shaiman to
pen tunes for Bob the Musical
Tony-winning
composer-lyricist Marc Shaiman has signed on for musical
duties on Touchstone Pictures' Bob the Mu
Tony-winning
composer-lyricist Marc Shaiman has signed on for musical
duties on Touchstone Pictures' Bob the Musical. Mark Waters (Mean Girls) is
attached to direct the musical comedy. The openly gay
Shaiman, who was nominated for an Oscar for cowriting the
song "Blame Canada" in 1999's South Park: Bigger,
Longer, and Uncut, will write music and lyrics for the Mike
Bender–written comedy that follows a mild-mannered
man who suddenly hears the "inner song" of people's
hearts after being struck in the head. Shaiman also
will act as a consultant to musical-ize the script.
"Once I read the
script, I felt I had to do it," Shaiman said in an
interview. "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 said the script will show why people sing in
musicals: "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."
Shaiman, who won
a Tony as composer and colyricist on Broadway's Hairspray, is a five-time Academy Award nominee for his
work on such movies as The First Wives Club and
The American President. He is working on the stage musical of Catch Me
If You Can. (Borys Kit, Reuters)
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