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- Karey is best known for his screenwriting credits on films such as The Rescuers Down Under and James and the Giant Peach, while Wayne is best known for his lyrical contributions to albums from artists such as Garth Brooks, Amy Grant and Little Big Town.
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Wayne Kirkpatrick (born c. 1961) is an American songwriter and musician born in Greenville, MS, who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979. His younger brother is American screenwriter and director Karey Kirkpatrick.
Nov 24, 2021 · Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick have come a long way from their beginnings in Christian rock, but they’re glad to be creating a family-friendly musical comedy.
- On First encounters with Shakespeare
- Their Inspiration For Something Rotten
- Shakespeare’s Popularity Now vs. Then
- How Writing Something Rotten Changed The Way They Think About Shakespeare
Karey Kirkpatrick I took “Intro to Shakespeare” in ninth grade and hated it. And my teacher was not very good. It wasn’t until I did Romeo and Julietas a senior and played Romeo and that’s when I started realizing, “oh, it’s really not meant to be read, it’s meant to be performed.” And then the more I got into it, I was like, “oh, this is fun to, y...
Wayne Kirkpatrick I don’t know that spoofing Shakespeare was the initial idea. We just, we wanted to write a musical. And actually we don’t really know how the idea came about, it was so organic. You know, there was a lot of: “what if two writers were just trying to write a hit and they were constantly in the shadow of the guy that everything he wr...
Wayne Kirkpatrick Yeah, I think we were aware of the fact that he was, you know, he wasn’t as popular as we make him out to be. But our show does a lot of melding of two worlds. In our day Shakespeare is the literary rock star so we kind of take that notion and put it into that time with our writers in our show and he is a rock star. So we play fas...
Karey Kirkpatrick I think in a weird way it’s kind of personalized him to me a little bit, as you just start to think about what it was like to create back then. And it mostly makes me think about the language, the sophistication of the language, the sophistication of the plot, and how long they take. Now I’ll admit, I’m a product of shorter attent...
Feb 23, 2023 · The Mrs. Doubtfire musical comes to use from the brilliant songwriting team of American brothers Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick, plus British book writer John O’Farrell — all shepherded by the experienced director Jerry Zaks.
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Jul 2, 2015 · Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick. By now it’s common knowledge that brothers Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick achieved the unthinkable by having their very first musical skip out-of-town previews and open successfully on Broadway in the spring of 2015.
Dec 6, 2021 · “ Mrs. Doubtfire,” a polished and pandering new musical from Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, has been dutifully trotting the bases of its source material (the 1993 film starring...
