THEATER: All The Moving Parts

Marc Shaiman has spent nearly five decades at the center of American entertainment, composing and arranging for Bette Midler, scoring films like When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, and winning a Tony Award for Hairspray. Now the seven-time Oscar nominee has written a memoir, Never Mind the Happy, and he sits down with Patrick Pacheco to hold almost nothing back. Shaiman traces his unlikely origin story from underage piano player at Marie's Crisis to musical director for Midler, recounts the downtown creative explosion of Club 57 where he and longtime collaborator Scott Wittman first found their voice, and reflects on the Hollywood years that made him famous while Broadway waited. Along the way, he shares candid stories about Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Martin Short, Trey Parker, and Stephen Sondheim, including one story Sondheim himself asked him to sit on for twenty years. Shaiman also speaks openly about fear as a creative force, the complicated legacy of Smash on both television and Broadway, and what it means to call yourself a pessimist while living a life that keeps exceeding your wildest expectations.

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Tape Date: 04/01/2026 First Air Date: 04/24/2026

Guest: Marc Shaiman, Author, Never Mind the Happy

On THEATER: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco looks beyond the spotlight at the passionate and unheralded creative talents that are critical to the theatrical experience. From costumer designers to dramaturges and everything in between, Patrick looks at all the moving parts of a Broadway production.

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In a city built on chance encounters, what happens when two complete opposites collide? On this episode of Theater: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco sits down at Sardi’s with the stars of the Broadway romcom Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty.

They dive into the heart of this charming and chaotic love story, following Dougal, an earnest British newcomer chasing a life changing truth, and Robin, a guarded New Yorker juggling responsibility, stress, and emotional baggage. As their paths intertwine over the course of one unpredictable day, sparks fly, defenses drop, and the possibility of connection begins to feel real.

From building characters rooted in vulnerability to capturing the magic and mythology of New York City, Pitts and Tutty share what it takes to bring this unlikely love story to life on stage.

Watch the full conversation and discover why sometimes the most unexpected encounters can change everything.

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Tape Date: 03/26/2026 First Air Date: 04/10/2026

Guest List:
Christiani Pitts, Actor, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Sam Tutty, Actor, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

On THEATER: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco looks beyond the spotlight at the passionate and unheralded creative talents that are critical to the theatrical experience. From costumer designers to dramaturges and everything in between, Patrick looks at all the moving parts of a Broadway production.

Watch more at: https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/theaterallthemovingparts/
THEATER: All the Moving Parts playlist https://bit.ly/2N5eNLs​

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Combine a rewrite of "Romeo and Juliet" with the songs of the top hitmaker Max Martin and what do you get: "& Juliet" on Broadway! Host Patrick Pacheco talks with the cast of the show and then with Bill Sherman, the musical supervisor. In this clip actor Betsy Wolfe, who plays Ann Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife in the musical, talks about the songs of Max Martin.

Watch the full episode at https://tv.cuny.edu/show/theaterallthemovingparts/PR2011745

On THEATER: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco looks beyond the spotlight at the passionate and unheralded creative talents that are critical to the theatrical experience. From costumer designers to dramaturges and everything in between, Patrick looks at all the moving parts of a Broadway production.

Watch more at: https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/theaterallthemovingparts/

THEATER: All the Moving Parts playlist https://bit.ly/2N5eNLs​

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In this episode of “THEATER: All the Moving Parts,” host Patrick Pacheco welcomes master lighting designer and 6-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz. For the
2022 Tony Nominations, she received a nomination for Lighting Design for a Musical for "MJ, the Musical", which received 10 nominations. In this clip, she talks about how she designed the lighting for the Michael Jackson character in "MJ, the Musical".

Watch the full episode: https://tv.cuny.edu/show/theaterallthemovingparts/PR2010837

On THEATER: All the Moving Parts, host Patrick Pacheco looks beyond the spotlight at the passionate and unheralded creative talents that are critical to the theatrical experience. From costumer designers to dramaturges and everything in between, Patrick looks at all the moving parts of a Broadway production.

Watch more at: https://tv.cuny.edu/show/theaterallthemovingparts/

THEATER: All the Moving Parts playlist https://bit.ly/2N5eNLs

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