Legends alert. This week Jonny’s guests are the creme de la creme of Broadway musical composing, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Their music for the current Broadway smash Some Like It Hot is still on heavy rotation in the Stage Door household and they’re the musical force behind Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sister Act, Oscar-nominated songs by the bucketload, Tonys, Grammys - the whole nine. But what lives too! Take them from being madly gifted theatre-obsessed kids from unlikely backgrounds yearning to get to New York to their first meeting in Marie’s Crisis, mad 200-strong productions of The Trojan Women, a close-up look at how they write songs together, the ravages of the AIDS crisis, a MOMA retrospective of their downtown days, all the way to conquering Broadway- and a magnificently moany insight into how hard it is to stay at the top of the American musical. 

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