Pasek and Paul

And you name it, you name the Broadway star, they've come in to thrill us.

Ariana DuBose and Pasek and Paul, Stephen Schwartz, Lauren Bacall.

It was a who's who and it always knocks me out.

As you said, Cast Party's been running for 23 years now at Birdlands.

I think he's a fantastic songwriter.

I think the next sound of new musical theatre that we're hearing between Todrick Stuff and Marlow & Moss, who wrote Six, I think we're moving away from the kind of greatest showman-y Pasek and Paul commercial musical theatre sound.

We're moving to something kind of more queer pop inspired.

I think there's so much to say about the show and there's much to say about its relationship to race that is not particularly my business.

And I think that sort of translated through my life to, you know, and this happens on many projects, including, you know, most recently, The Lost Boys.

But with The Greatest Showman specifically, I think it was getting the initial set of demos, you know, the composer's demos, which Justin Paul and Benj Pasek had done with enormous detail, you know, and hearing the first, the initial demo of This Is Me.

And just remembering being completely knocked out by it.

It was so anthemic, so powerful, and the message behind it was just extraordinary.

What did he write for Smash?

[gasps] Oh my God, was it Rewri- no, that was Pasek and Paul, I think.

No.

Um, okay, fun.

Um, what else is memorable to me?

Okay.

Written by Pasek and Paul.

Written by Pasek and Paul, Original.

I'm not sure

... oh, Pasek.

Pasek, 'cause it's Pasek and Paul.

That's the company.

Oh, okay.

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entertainment, including Broadway star and Bananas pitcher Derek Klenna, performing new music from the greatest showman writers and EGOT winners, Pasek and Paul.

It's an actor's dream, and especially an athlete's dream, to perform at this level alongside these amazingly talented guys.

You'd be Bananas to miss a second of it.

We were here at Nationals Park yesterday when they were rehearsing that epic final inning show.

Superstar surprise guest that, I'm not kidding, I was floored by, which was amazing.

We're getting new music from Pasek and Paul, who are the guys who did La La Land and The Greatest Showman.

That's all coming up, and we had a sneak peek of all of it.

What are we going to see tomorrow at the Banana Bowl?

Also, we teamed up with Pasek and Paul, the writers from The Greatest Showman, on seven brand new original songs.

Each team's anthem is going to be performed and then a huge final inning performance.

We're going all out.

We're going to have a lot of costumes, a lot of characters.

I can't share all of it, but yes, they are right now working on the final inning show, which is going to be an 11-minute performance at the end of the eighth inning, which of songs, performances, dances, choreography people have never seen before.

We've got the great Mandy Moore helping with choreography, Pasek and Paul.

It is, like I said, this is our Super Bowl, but for us it's even bigger.

Like, historically, I was like, okay, it's good.

But, like, me and Bailey were talking about this, like, I don't particularly love Pasek and Paul, who are the writers.

Yeah.

Same.

Yes.

Uh, I agree that I...

Like, I see why Pasek and Paul songs are so catchy.

I see why they go so big.