Join us for “An Evening with Marc Shaiman” — part performance, part music master class, part stories from the movies and Broadway, and ALL entertaining! You won’t want to miss this celebration of music in the movies from the master musician and composer himself! Marc Shaiman has worked with and composed music for the “who’s who” of Hollywood and Broadway and has created the soundtrack of dozens of our favorite films and musicals! He is going to take you on a musical journey behind the scenes of some of his biggest smash hits!
MARC SHAIMAN, award-winning composer, lyricist, orchestrator and musician, has successfully created music for TV, film and theater since entering show business at the age of 16 in 1976.
Recently, Marc co-wrote the songs and composed the score for director Rob Marshall and Disney's "Mary Poppins Returns", the film sequel to the classic film “Mary Poppins”. For his work on the film, Marc was nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and two Oscar nominations; one for Best Original score, and one - along with his co-lyricist and longtime collaborator Scott Wittman - for Best Original song, “The Place Where Lost Things Go”.
He is currently co-writing the score for a new musical version of “Some Like It Hot”, and writing music for the upcoming Broadway production of “Plaza Suite”.
Marc has been Oscar nominated seven times (for “Mary Poppins Returns” (2), “Sleepless In Seattle”, “Patch Adams”, “The First Wives Club”, The American President” and “South Park-Bigger, Longer & Uncut”). He has received two Tony Award nominations (winning one for co-writing the score to “Hairspray” with co-lyricist Scott Wittman), five Grammy Awards nominations (winning one for The Original Cast Recording of “Hairspray”), eleven Emmy Awards (winning one for his work on Billy Crystal’s Academy Award hosting), four Golden Globe nominations (including "The Star", song co-written with Mariah Carey), and two BAFTA nominations ("Sleepless In Seattle" and "Mary Poppins Returns").
Shaiman's other film work includes “Beaches”, “When Harry Met Sally”, Misery”, “City Slickers”, “The Addams Family”, “Addams Family Values”, “A Few Good Men”, “Sister Act” (1 & 2), “George of the Jungle”, “In and Out”, “Hocus Pocus”, “The Bucket List” and “Parental Guidance”.
He served as an Executive Producer of the successful film adaptation of his Broadway musical "Hairspray".
In addition to "Hairspray", his other original Broadway musical credits are the Tony-nominated “Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me”, the Tony-winning “Catch Me If You Can”, and "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory". Broadway concert credits are "Peter Allen-Up In One", Bette Midler's "Divine Madness", Ellie Greenwich's "Leader Of The Pack" and “Patti LuPone On Broadway”. After a tremendously successful concert for The Actor's Fund, his musical "Bombshell", created as part of the television show “Smash," is now being developed into a future show.
Shaiman has co-produced and arranged Grammy-winning recordings for music icons such as Bette Midler, Harry Connick Jr. and Mariah Carey, including the Grammy-winning recordings "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "From A Distance.”