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Hi and welcome back to Pop Culture Spirit Wow, the newsletter that is unexpectedly obsessed with musical theater songwriters this week!
Last month I had the great pleasure of talking to Alan Schmuckler and Michael Mahler, the songwriting team behind the musical Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which is just finishing a run in Milwaukee. It’s a great show, and the three of us had a wide-ranging conversation about its origins, development, and my favorite song from the show. Paid subscribers will get to hear a lot about all this and more later this week!
But as it turns out today is another day for musical theater songwriters. Richard M. Sherman (top left), who died over the weekend served with his brother Robert as Disney’s in-house songwriting team in the 1960s. Over the course of their careers they wrote the songs for such films as Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Aristocats and Charlotte’s Web. They also …
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