From 'Almost Famous' to 'Sesame Street The Musical,' composer Tom Kitt talks through his Broadway projects.
takes place. “I get to now live in that sensibility as a composer and arranger,” Kitt says. Thescore is mostly Kitt’s original music but does incorporate iconic songs from the movie like Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer,” and Kitt’s job, in part, was “to make it feel like one voice, one score.”
While it may be Crowe’s first time as a Broadway lyricist, Kitt describes him as a natural. “Cameron already is a poet, a lyricist, just in terms of what he’s put into the world,” Kitt says, adding that the lines from Crowe’s movies are themselves “earworms.” As a writing team, “we found our groove right away,” Kitt continues.
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