Marc Shaiman

A Grammy-, Emmy-, and Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist, Marc Shaiman is known for his work as a film scorer, a Broadway songwriter (Hairspray, Some Like It Hot), and a music director and arranger (Bette Midler, Harry Connick, Jr.). After working with Midler and at Saturday Night Live in the 1980s, he revealed a knack for alternately warm and sentimental, tense and rousing, and jazzy and playful orchestral film scores and songs, all with an emotive stamp that is right at home on the Great White Way. Early box office hits like When Harry Met Sally (1989), Misery (1990), and ...