Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Achieve EGOT Status With Emmys Win

The distinguished EGOT membership simply gained two new members: Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

The duo, who have already got an Oscar for “La La Land” and a Tony and Grammy award for “Pricey Evan Hansen” and “The Biggest Showman,” secured their EGOT (the house run of profitable an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award) with their Emmy win for greatest track for “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” from “Solely Murders within the Constructing.” Pasek and Paul co-wrote the track with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

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Talking backstage after the win, Paul stated, “It’s clearly thrilling and really wild to consider attending to do it alongside two of our heroes who gave us our very first job in tv –makes it most significant.”

For Paul, the collaboration on “Solely Murders” was “one of the vital joyful that we’ve ever had in our careers on a TV present that’s one in all our favorites within the historical past of tv exhibits,” he stated. “We had a beautiful time. The present was great.”

Talking with , “Solely Murders” co-creator John Hoffman stated the concept for the storyline that impressed the track “got here to me within the bathe. I actually simply thought, ‘Oh, which of the Pickwick triplets did it?’” Hoffman remembers. “The constable character was on a mission to uncover which of those little child triplets might have killed their mom — which is preposterous, however delightfully preposterous in my thoughts.”

Pasek stated the task was nothing lower than to “write one thing that’s as troublesome to sing as potential” and one thing that’s actually, actually arduous to do in a single take. That works to our benefit by way of the plot, as a result of actually the query is, can this character pull it off? And for a number of episodes, he can’t. It provides us one thing to essentially root for over the course of the season,’ Pasek stated.

Pasek and Paul change into the twentieth and twenty first members of the elusive EGOT membership. TheShockNews of those that qualify  Whoopi Goldberg, Viola Davis, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend and extra.

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