Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.

Come with me.

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

And movies. Movies that have stories.

That the story just sucks a man.

This is just the beginning.

We would be honored if you would join us.

Hello and a very warm welcome to this special episode of film stories with Simon Brew.

I am Simon Brew as always, absolutely everything you know about me.

The aim of the podcast is well week by week I talk

the stories of films I talk production stories development stories behind the scenes stories

and I generally look at what goes to make the films that we know and love just that the

films that we know and love this is one of my occasional special episodes of the podcast. I really enjoyed

putting this one together because I've had the chance to chat to the legendary music theatre,

cinema composer, Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz, who was in London recently to discuss

the Prince of Egypt stage musical,

which he's been heavily involved with over the last couple of years,

adapting his own music from the Prince of Egypt movie from all the way back in 1998.

Now, I've not had a chance to talk to someone quite like this before,

who's turned a piece of work that

they wrote for one medium into another. And in the case of the Prince of Egypt, as you're about

to hear, the film itself was such a pivotal one in the landscape of American mainstream

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