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65 - Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez is an American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the 3D Disney computer animated film Frozen, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez... Read More

41 mins
3/27/16

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Robert Lopez is an American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the 3D Disney computer animated film Frozen, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Of only fifteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, he is the youngest and quickest (10 years) to win all four.

I got to spend an hour with Bobby in his brand new songwriting studio in Brooklyn (which was the coolest space btw – in addition to the computers and white boards that had notes about dramatic structure – there was this big ol’ cabinet that housed all of the awards that make up that EGOT title), and we talked all things about songs and his success including . . .

  • What an early meeting with Stephen Sondheim meant to his career.
  • Why he never thought The Book of Mormon would ever happen.
  • Why he recommends the BMI Workshop to Writers.
  • What he thought the moment he and his wife, Lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez, finished writing “Let It Go.”
  • If there might be another collaboration with the South Park guys in the future.

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