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Marc Shaiman

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Marc Shaiman (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; born October 22, 1959) is an American composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, best known for his collaborations with lyricist and director Scott Wittman, actor Billy Crystal, and director Rob Reiner. Shaiman has received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. He has also received seven Academy Award nominations.

Early life, family and educationEdit

Shaiman was born to a Jewish family<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Claire (née Goldfein) and William Robert Shaiman.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

He attended Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, but he left school at age 16 to start working in New York's theaters; he later obtained a GED.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

CareerEdit

Shaiman started his career as a theatre/cabaret musical director. He started working at Saturday Night Live as an arranger/writer. He portrayed Skip St. Thomas, the accompanying pianist for The Sweeney Sisters, a singing duo played by Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks, which earned him an Emmy nomination; he returned for an appearance on The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, having co-created Martin Short and Maya Rudolph's salute to musical sketch characters.<ref name="NBC Shaiman"/> He began his professional relationships with Billy Crystal and Martin Short during his tenure at the show. He also was a vocal arranger for Bette Midler, eventually becoming her musical director and co-producer of many of her recordings, including "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "From a Distance." He helped create the material for her performance on the penultimate The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. His work with both Midler and Billy Crystal led to his involvement on their films. He later produced Midler's album It's the Girls, which had the highest debut of Midler's recording career on the Billboard Album charts, and co-wrote Crystal's farewell to Jay Leno which featured Carol Burnett and Oprah Winfrey among others.

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, Hairspray, Flipped, Mary Poppins Returns and HBO's From the Earth to the Moon and 61*. On television, he worked on the final performances for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show (with Bette Midler), Conan O'Brien's Late Night (with Nathan Lane), both of Jay Leno's final Tonight Show broadcasts, and Nathan Lane's farewell to David Letterman called "Dead Inside."

Shaiman has earned seven 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 performances. He has also been Grammy-nominated for his arrangements for Harry Connick Jr.'s recordings When Harry Met Sally... and We Are in Love as well as Hairspray and Smash and Emmy-nominated for his work on Saturday Night Live and Smash. In 2002, he was honored with the "Outstanding Achievement in Music-In-Film" award at The Hollywood Film Festival, and in 2007 he was honored with ASCAP's Henry Mancini Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions to the music of film and television.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is the first recipient of the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Comedy Feature Film. He wrote and sang the song "Yes" for his agent's film Finding Kraftland, and co-wrote (with partner Scott Wittman) songs for Neil Patrick Harris when Harris hosted the 63rd Tony Awards (2009) and the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (2009), and was Emmy-nominated for musical directing and co-writing the 82nd Academy Awards (2010).

Shaiman co-produced and co-wrote cuts on Mariah Carey's 2010 Christmas album Merry Christmas II You. He and Wittman wrote original songs for the musical-based television show for NBC, Smash, which ran from 2012 to 2013, and served as executive producers. For their song "Let Me Be Your Star," Shaiman and co-lyricist Wittman were nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award, and as executive producers they were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical.

Shaiman and Wittman were honored on April 28, 2014, by The New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.<ref name="NBC Shaiman">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following year, Jennifer Hudson sang the Smash song "I Can't Let Go" at the 87th Academy Awards during the in memoriam tribute, featuring revised lyrics. The duo's Broadway musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ran on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, after finishing a four-year run on London's West End at The Royal Drury Lane Theater. Shaiman was Tony-nominated for his orchestrations for their previous Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can. In 2021, they wrote a song titled "Save the City" for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in-universe Broadway production titled Rogers: The Musical featured in the first episode of Hawkeye, "Never Meet Your Heroes".<ref name="RogersTheMusical">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was released as a single on November 24, the day the episode became available on Disney+.<ref name="SaveTheCity">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In February 2021, it was announced that Shaiman and Wittman were writing songs for a new musical adaptation of Some Like It Hot, which premiered on Broadway in 2022 with a book by Amber Ruffin and Matthew Lopez.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

ActivismEdit

In 2008, a controversy erupted nationwide when California Musical Theatre's then artistic director Scott Eckern<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> resigned over the revelation of his personal donation of $1,000 to a political campaign to support California Proposition 8, an amendment which enshrined into the California Constitution that "only marriage between a man and a woman [was] recognized in California". After the amendment was passed, donor information became public. Shaiman and other Broadway artists who had previously worked with the director became critical and called for a boycott of the theatre by all gay artists and performers, ending in the director's resignation days later.

To protest the passage of California Proposition 8 in November 2008, Shaiman wrote a satiric mini-musical Prop 8 – The Musical. The three-minute video was distributed on the internet at FunnyOrDie.com, beginning on December 3, 2008. It was written and produced in just a few days. The cast includes Jack Black (who plays Jesus), Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, and Rashida Jones. Shaiman plays the piano and appears briefly in the video. It received 1.2 million internet hits in its first day.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Shaiman is openly gay,<ref>Itzkoff, Dave. "For This Songwriter, the Political Is Musical" The New York Times, December 6, 2008</ref> and married Louis Mirabal, a retired lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, on March 26, 2016.<ref>"Hairspray Composer Marc Shaiman Ties The Knot" Template:Webarchive Playbill, March 26, 2016</ref> He lives in both Manhattan and upstate New York.

Filmography (composer unless otherwise noted)Edit

FilmsEdit

Year Title Director Notes
1988 Big Business Jim Abrahams Songs only
Beaches Garry Marshall Music supervisor
1989 When Harry Met Sally... Rob Reiner Template:N/A
1990 Misery Template:N/A
1991 Scenes from a Mall Paul Mazursky Template:N/A
City Slickers Ron Underwood Template:N/A
The Addams Family Barry Sonnenfeld Template:N/A
Hot Shots! Jim Abrahams Actor
For the Boys Mark Rydell Songs only
1992 Sister Act Emile Ardolino Template:N/A
Mr. Saturday Night Billy Crystal Template:N/A
A Few Good Men Rob Reiner Template:N/A
1993 Sleepless in Seattle Nora Ephron Template:N/A
Heart and Souls Ron Underwood Template:N/A
Hocus Pocus Kenny Ortega Musical arrangement: Additional arrangements
Life with Mikey James Lapine Template:N/A
Addams Family Values Barry Sonnenfeld Template:N/A
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Bill Duke Template:N/A
1994 City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold Paul Weiland Template:N/A
North Rob Reiner Template:N/A
Speechless Ron Underwood Template:N/A
That's Entertainment! III Bud Friedgen and Michael J. Sheridan Template:N/A
1995 Stuart Saves His Family Harold Ramis Template:N/A
Forget Paris Billy Crystal Template:N/A
The American President Rob Reiner Template:N/A
1996 Bogus Norman Jewison Template:N/A
Mother Albert Brooks Template:N/A
The First Wives Club Hugh Wilson Template:N/A
Ghosts of Mississippi Rob Reiner Template:N/A
1997 George of the Jungle Sam Weisman Template:N/A
In & Out Frank Oz Template:N/A
1998 My Giant Michael Lehmann Template:N/A
Simon Birch Mark Steven Johnson Template:N/A
Patch Adams Tom Shadyac Template:N/A
1999 The Out-of-Towners Sam Weisman Template:N/A
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Trey Parker Template:N/A
The Story of Us Rob Reiner With Eric Clapton
Get Bruce Andrew J. Kuehn Appears as himself
2000 The Kid Jon Turteltaub Template:N/A
2001 Get Over It Tommy O'Haver Songs only
One Night at McCool's Harald Zwart Template:N/A
The Wedding Planner Adam Shankman Template:N/A
2003 Down with Love Peyton Reed Template:N/A
Alex & Emma Rob Reiner Template:N/A
The Cat in the Hat Bo Welch Songs only
Marci X Richard Benjamin
2004 Team America: World Police Trey Parker Song only
Score was rejected and replaced by Harry Gregson-Williams
2005 Rumor Has It... Rob Reiner Template:N/A
2007 Hairspray Adam Shankman Template:N/A
The Bucket List Rob Reiner Template:N/A
Bee Movie Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner Song in end credits only
2010 Flipped Rob Reiner Template:N/A
2012 The Magic of Belle Isle Template:N/A
Parental Guidance Andy Fickman Template:N/A
2014 And So It Goes Rob Reiner Template:N/A
2016 LBJ Template:N/A
2017 The Star Timothy Reckart Template:N/A
2018 Mary Poppins Returns Rob Marshall Template:N/A
2021 Tick, Tick... Boom! Lin-Manuel Miranda Cameo appearance
2022 Bros Nicholas Stoller Template:N/A
Hocus Pocus 2 Anne Fletcher Additional lyrics / song and vocal producer
2023 Albert Brooks: Defending My Life Rob Reiner Template:N/A

TelevisionEdit

Year Title Notes
1984–1985,
1986–1987 		Saturday Night Live
1986 Comic Relief
Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started Television special
1987 Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started - The Lost Minutes Television special
1988 The Mondo Beyondo Show
1989 I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood Television film
What's Alan Watching? Television special
1990 Billy Crystal: Midnight Train To Moscow Television special
62nd Academy Awards Television special
1991 63rd Academy Awards Television special
1992 64th Academy Awards Television special
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Episode: "Robin Williams/Bette Midler"
1993 65th Academy Awards Television special
1997 69th Academy Awards Television special
Bette Midler in Concert: Diva Las Vegas
1998 70th Academy Awards Television special
From the Earth to the Moon Episode: "The Original Wives Club"
1999 Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary Special Television special
1999, 2002 South Park Composer (Episode: "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics")
Actor (Episode: "Cripple Fight")
1999 Jackie's Back Television film
2000 72nd Academy Awards Television special
Bette
2001 61* Television film
2002 Greg the Bunny
2003 Charlie Lawrence
The Score
2004 Biography Episode: "Bette Midler"
76th Academy Awards Television special
2005 77th Academy Awards Television special
2007 79th Academy Awards Television special
2009 63rd Tony Awards Television special
61st Primetime Emmy Awards Television special
2010 82nd Academy Awards Television special
The Kennedy Center Honors Television special
2012 84th Academy Awards Television special
2012–2013 Smash
2015 Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special Television special
87th Academy Awards Television special
2016 Hairspray Live! Television special
2020 Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special Television special
2021 The Prince Episode: "School Musical Part 2"
Hawkeye 2 episodes
2023 Only Murders in the Building
The Kennedy Center Honors Television special

TheatreEdit

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Broadway

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Disney Parks

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InternetEdit

  • Prop 8 - The Musical (2008) (composer, lyricist, pianist) - 2009 "Webby" winner for Best Comedy: Short or Individual Episode
  • Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Celebration for the Film and TV Music Community (2020) ("The End Titles" song)

DiscographyEdit

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Mariah Carey

Bette Midler

Harry Connick Jr.

Peter Allen

Original Broadway cast recordings

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Soundtracks

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Concert/cabaret workEdit

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AccoladesEdit

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For his work as a composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, Shaiman has received numerous accolades including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. He earned the Hollywood Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music and Film in 2002.

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