Quick Chat: Tom Mizer (Marvelous Mrs Maisel), Emmy Nominee!

by Nathaniel R

Moore (far left) and Mizer (far right) with cast members from The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

If you're a faithful reader of TFE you know that we're fans of the songwriting duo "Mizer & Moore" who wrote the songs for this season of Marvelous Mrs Maisel. Tom, the lyricist half of the duo, recently served on the panel of our Supporting Actress Smackdown of 1947 and then guest blogged for a day here at TFE to tell us about his Maisel experience and other movie musical interests. Naturally we were thrilled when he snagged his first Emmy nomination and called him right up...

NATHANIEL: Congratulations. I am doing a little happy dance for you in my chair as I type away about the Emmys. We've on this journey with you, at least in spirit (socially distanced!) for so long now. Are you shocked? thrilled? humbled? already exhausted by well wishers? 

TOM: Thank you so much! Sharing just a bit of this madness with you and your smart, supportive readers has been a thrill given I’ve been reading The Film Experience forever. It’s surreal to be on the “other side”...

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Movies-to-Stage. On Musical Adaptations

Today we've turned the blog over to Tom Mizer, one half of the songwriting team Mizer & Moore...

Musicals have alwasy been adapted from non-musical material

by Tom Mizer

Can I admit something and you promise not to judge me? My writing partner and I are working on adapting some movies into stage musicals. If eye-rolling made a sound, I bet I would hear a thousand violent swooshes. “Not another movie made into a musical! Why can’t there be original musicals?”...

Here’s the deal: musicals have always been built largely on the foundations of other forms, whether adapted from novels (South Pacific, Show Boat) or straight plays (Oklahoma, My Fair Lady) or, yes, movies. Musicals are incredibly difficult to make work; there are so many moving parts that having the framework of a good story already in place can be an enormous advantage...

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How I Came to Write Musicals

IT'S A SPECIAL GUEST STAR DAY!

We are thrilled to turn The Film Experience over today to Tom Mizer, one half of the songwriting team Mizer & Moore (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel). In addition to his many career accomplishments, he happens to be a longtime TFE reader! Please give him a warm welcome - Nathaniel R.

by Tom Mizer

It’s a little disturbing to discover that the best way to introduce myself to you, good readers, is by having you meet 10 year-old me. During a lockdown cleaning binge, I found a stack of “scrapbooks” I made as a kid out of construction paper and newspaper clippings. The extreme Tom-ness of who I was and who I’d become is all there. I mean, look at just this one page.

First, note the slipshod but intense workmanship. I have not a crafty bone in my body and clearly needed to avoid the visual arts...

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Introducing the Smackdown Panel for '47

We're excited to bring you a new super-sized season of the Supporting Actress Smackdown. We just celebrated 1981 with an awesome panel and we're not slowing down. Next up is 1947. In two weeks time we'll be talking the Best Picture winner Gentleman's Agreement,  Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case,  the noir Crossfire, and the countrified comedy The Egg and I on Thursday May 28th, right here. So watch those four flicks, won'cha?

We've gathered a panel of actors, industry types, and cinephiles for you. Ready? Let's meet the people who will be talking about the Oscars and actresses of 1947.

RETURNING TO THE SMACKDOWN ...

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