Idina Menzel of "Wicked" performs onstage during the 58th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Jin New York City. Schwartz said he is writing new songs for the film adaption, but they won’t just be written so that the film can snag more trophies, since music needs to be original for film adaptations to win Golden Globes or Academy Awards. I literally have no idea who's going to be Elphaba, who's going to be good, but, you know, that's something that we're going to have to know pretty soon.” “You know we're just now at the stage where we're really seriously starting to talk about casting. “We don't know who that's going to be yet,” he said. The brightest star on her resume was the show “My So-Called Life,” which while only on air for one season in 1994-1995, developed a cult-like following and launched the careers of Claire Danes, Wilson Cruz and Jared Leto. He brought in Winnie Holzman to write the musical’s script, who was most known for writing for television at the time. Schwartz found some unlikely inspiration when he started to adapt the book it is based on for the stage. Probably his best known work is “Wicked,” which after opening in 2003 is now the fifth longest-running show on Broadway, having been deemed " a cultural phenomenon" by Variety. (His life and work are so distinguished, there's a documentary about him in the works.) status, as his trophy case already includes three Grammys, three Oscars, a special Tony and even one Golden Globe. Schwartz is only an Emmy away from the coveted E.G.O.T. "It is because of ‘My So-Called Life’ and how she writes young women that Winnie and I did this show together and we created what we created.” Produced by DreamWorks in 1998, the animated film “The Prince of Egypt” featured music and lyrics by Schwartz, including the popular song “When You Believe.” The pop version, produced by Babyface and recorded by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, went on to become a commercially successful single, and snagged the Academy Award for best original song for Schwartz as well. But I’m excited my colleagues will be able to get back to work.” “It's been tough enough psychologically as a writer, just to maintain some kind of motivation, but at least I can do what I do without having to be in front of an audience. “It's been an incredibly difficult time, I think particularly for performers and musicians, directors, you know people who make their living when live theater is happening,” he said, adding that the show is slated to reopen in June 2021. Based on the 1998 DreamWorks animated film, "The Prince of Egypt" was a hit in London before shutdown and is slated to reopen in June 2021. The show also got to record a cast album, which was nominated for best musical theater album at the 2021 Grammy Awards, and is available now through Ghostlight Records. We just had the very beginning of momentum, and whether we'll be able to recapture that remains to be seen, but I feel so bad for shows that were supposed to open in New York, which never got to open at all.” “I feel with ‘The Prince of Egypt,’ we were fortunate that we got to open and had begun to build an audience and sales were going well. “It's been a really, really tough time for live arts,“ Schwartz, 73, told TODAY.
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