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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Guerrilla) has signed on to write, direct and executive produce an untitled musical drama for Showtime, which has received a straight-to-series order. On the project, originally announced in July with a series commitment, he joins executive producers Alicia Keys…

Showtime has given a series commitment to an untitled musical drama executive produced by multiple Grammy winner Alicia Keys and the Oscar, Tony and Grammy winning team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman). Pasek and Paul also will contribute music to the series, produced…

EXCLUSIVE: Last year’s multiple Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen which won not only Best Musical but Best Lead Actor and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Ben Platt and Rachel Bay Jones, respectively, is on its way to becoming a film. Stephen Chbosky, who directed last year’s sleeper worldwide box…

When Dear Evan Hansen debuted on Broadway, it became the hot ticket musical and went on to win six Tony Awards in 2017 including Best Musical. With music and lyrics from Academy Award-winning La La Landers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and book by Tony winner Steven Levenson, the has leveraged social media to sculpt a…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit And you thought Washington D.C. was bad! It is nothing compared to the Oscars when every vote is on the line. With voting going on in force, it seems it is prime time for political controversy and headline-grabbing attempts at making a last-minute…

The musical team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul won a Grammy tonight for Dear Evan Hansen, which adds the “G” to a foreseeable EGOT in their future. Pasek and Paul won tonight for Best Musical Theater Album for Dear Evan Hansen — which also won for Best Original Score and Best Musical Theater Album at last year’s Tony…

Upon cursory examination of the films taken on by Broadway songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, a theme emerges. Oscar winners last year for La La Land, whose P.T. Barnum pic The Greatest Showman bows later this year, the pair are suckers for larger-than-life stories of show business trials and triumphs, who have…

A Christmas Story is “its own genre,” EP Marc Platt told TV critics at TCA today, noting its un-Christmas-like lack of sentimentality. “TV has the unique opportunity to take musicals, live events, so it has that feeling and excitement and spontaneity, but still has a camera between you and what you are watching,” said…

It would be an understatement to say that songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are on a roll this year. The duo, song collaborators ever since their days at University of Michigan, kicked off 2017 with a Golden Globe and Oscar win for their La La Land penned-tune “City of Stars,” and just 11 days ago, their Broadway…

Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul denied Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda the first – though undoubtedly not his last – opportunity to sweep the awards quartet known as the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), by winning the Oscar for Best Song, “City Of Stars,” from Hurwitz’ already Oscar-winning score for La…

Award-winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen) have written a song for The Flash/Supergirl upcoming musical crossover episode. The Flash star Grant Gustin will perform the original song “Runnin’ Home To You” in the episode titled “Duet” airing Tuesday, March 21 at 8 PM on the…

Broadway had a ho-hum week typical of January — save for one new show that’s performing at a Hamilton-ian level in terms of ticket sales and bodies in seats. That would be Dear Evan Hansen, whose producing cadre includes the Shubert Organization, virtually every major independent Broadway player and two of the country…