For the movie, Schwartz, music producer Greg Wells, and musical supervisor Stephen Oremus wanted to update the rhythm, but he remembers that Grande was adamant that they stay true to the original.

The 'Wicked' soundtrack album merits separate listens, to really take in a Stephen Schwartz score that sends Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo soaring.

Schwartz has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he adapted and directed), Rags and the opera Séance on a Wet Afternoon.

Stephen Schwartz will see you now. The worthier wizard of “Wicked” is the one who wrote one of Broadway’s all-time top song ...

Star Cynthia Erivo recently revealed that she collaborated with composer Stephen Schwartz to create an original song for ...

Stephen Schwartz is an American composer born in 1948. He studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 1971 he wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Godspell ...

The Wicked Witch of the West has been a fixture in American culture for nearly 125 years. After coming to life in 1900 with L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, she rose to ...

It does not.) With Schwartz himself co-producing the album with Greg Wells (“Greatest Showman”) and original music-director/arranger Stephen Oremus, it simply sounds like what the legit ...

There’s a yodel in the title when she does ‘Pop-youuu-lar.’” For the movie, Schwartz, music producer Greg Wells, and musical supervisor Stephen Oremus wanted to update the rhythm, but he remembers ...