Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have now achieved the status of the EGOT.
The duo won an Emmy on Sunday for “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” An original song they co-wrote with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman for the “Only Murders in the Building” – Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Pasek and Paul became the 20th and 21st members of the EGOT club, which has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony award.
Their age-39 is also a tie with heavyweight songwriter Robert Lopez as the youngest to win all 4 awards. They are also the first such creative team to earn all four awards and do so concurrently with the remaining members of the cabinet.
The first step in the EGOT came when they won Best Original Song Oscar for City of Stars in 2017 for the motion picture La La Land.
They went on to win the Tony Award for original score in the show Dear Evan Hansen, they also won a Grammy for best musical cast recordings of the said play in 2018.
Emmy wins for Only Murders
The couple, who met at the University of Michigan, write songs for musicals such as ‘The Greatest Showman’ and are crafting lyrics for upcoming releases like ‘Snow White’ and ‘Atlantis.’
Pasek and Paul are part of the select group of EGOT composers, lyricists and writers, including Richard Rodgers, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, John Legend, Alan Menken, and most recently Elton John.
Steve Martin
Steve Martin was impressed by the murder mystery play “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” featured in a fictitious Broadway musical in the third season of the Hulu series.
Paul highlighted the narrative tension in Martin’s character, an over-eager performer scared of costumes, in an interview about the audience’s intense engagement with the explosive content driving the performance in Only Murders, raising questions of surpassing expectations.
It beat songs in which the original music and lyrics received an Emmy such as the track The Medium Time from Girls5eva, the True Detective: Night Country song No Use by John Hawkes,
Love Will Survive from the Tattooists of Auschwitz by Kara Talve, Hans Zimmer, Walter Afanasieff and Charlie Midnight as well as Maya Rudolph Mother’s Day Monologue by Eli Brueggemann, Maya Rudolph, Auguste White, Mike DiCenzo and Jake Nordwind from Saturday Night Live.
“Only Murders in the Building”, pretentiously estimated at 21 nominations, including best comedy series and actors Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd.
A cut-down version of the two-day Creative Arts Emmys edits from the two evenings’ presentations will be brought together and broadcast on FXX starting at 8 p.m. Continuation of the two-night event gradually grows paired so as not to frighten voracious appetites of audiences around New York City.
The Primetime Emmy Awards
also known as the Primetime Emmys,w this year will take place at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles and will be televised live on ABC on September 15 at 8 pmAriel ’s obligatory crown fell down. Yoni and Dan Levy will present the award. This will be an interesting fact. They will do it as the first – father and son pair.
Lee Ashley works at the Los Angeles Times
As a staff writer covering such topics as the theatre, movies, and television, as well as the theatre to film and back worlds. A graduate of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute and Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices, she teaches arts reporting workshops during the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Earlier, she was based in New York as an editor for The Hollywood Reporter. Los Angeles is home to such publications as The Washington Post, Backstage, and American Theatre, where she contributed articles.
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