PBOL: How do you write - music first, then lyrics or vice versa?
MS: First we talk about what the song needs to be, the title or hook. Then I go to the piano — "Play, monkey, play!" — and make a dummy lyric. Scott has been responsible for all of the titles on Hairspray. For example, he said, "The first song has to be 'Good Morning, Baltimore.'" Then we carve away. I'm the nuts and bolts, the professor, the "we need two syllables here." Scott's good at sprinkling it all with hipper words.
Marc Shaiman
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