“Hal Prince and I Did Six Shows Together...”

[STEPHEN SONDHEIM, spoken]
Hal Prince and I did six shows together. The last one we did on Broadway was called Merrily We Roll Along. And the irony of that being the last show that we did together was that Merrily We Roll Along deals with a partnership. It's a partnership between two songwriters that splits and they go their separate ways.

[BONNIE, spoken]
Welcome back to Live from New York Celebrity Spotlight! I have with me today the brilliant and talented composer Franklin Shepard.

[FRANK, spoken]
Ah, it’s good to see you Bonnie.

[BONNIE, spoken]
And thank you for bringing along your partner and lyricist, Charles Krangis.

[CHARLIE, spoken]
Kringas.

[BONNIE, spoken]
Now thеse two guys wrote the hit Musical Husbands. Your nеxt collaboration, Take a Left, will be finished when?

[CHARLIE, spoken]
Good question.

[BONNIE, spoken]
Well, Frank, you are so busy. I heard you just signed a deal with Paramount.

[FRANK, spoken]
Ha ha, it's true.

[CHARLIE, spoken]
What?

[FRANK, spoken]
You know, I haven't had a chance to tell you yet.

[BONNIE, spoken]
Whoops.

[CHARLIE, spoken]
We were supposed to be finally finishing.

[FRANK, spoken]
Okay, could we not discuss this right now?

[BONNIE, spoken]
Okay, you’re both from Chicago, and your friendship goes way back.

[CHARLIE, spoken]
Right up until today.