Dicks: The Musical is someway much more wild than its identify implies, making A24’s first musical really feel like an enormous swing for the manufacturing firm. It’s a bet that audiences will seemingly be glad A24 took; what started roughly a decade in the past as a musical carried out in a cramped Upright Residents Brigade theater in Manhattan has morphed into a movie that goals for the center as a lot as humor. The film was written by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp–additionally its stars and the creators of the UCB musical–and directed by Larry Charles (Borat).
Jackson and Sharp have been additionally the songwriters behind Dicks: The Musical, although that they had assist. Songwriter and composer Karl Saint Lucy has labored with the pair since their UCB days and returns for the movie together with Marius de Vries, an Oscar-winning composer whose earlier work consists of CODA, Kick-Ass, and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. Collectively, the movie’s songwriters have crafted catchy and hilarious items for the movie’s solid, which incorporates Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Megan Thee Stallion.
Karl Saint Lucy and Marius de Vries spoke with Display Rant about their work on Dicks: The Musical, working with Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally, and extra. Observe: This interview was carried out throughout the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, and the movie coated right here wouldn’t exist with out the labor of the writers and actors in each unions. This interview has additionally been frivolously edited for readability and size.
Display Rant: Karl, I consider you probably did the stage model of this again at UCB in New York. I’m certain it needed to be expanded, however how a lot modified as soon as extra folks began getting concerned and also you needed to begin interested by placing it on display?
Marius, how did you discover your method right here?
How did the collaboration work between the 2 of you and the 2 of them? Did they do all of the lyrics and did you two do the orchestrations?
How a lot have been the vocals finished on set versus within the studio? As a result of I might’ve guessed within the studio after which there was an outtake, I believe, of Megan Mullally on the set belting one thing out.
Had been there musicals that you simply two used as reference, both in songwriting or orchestrating? One in all my favourite issues about that is how candy the music sounds paired with these insane lyrics.