Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The songs and score of the new film “Dicks: The Musical” are deadpan, but about as far away from dead and humanly and musically possible.
It sounds like a fully fleshed-out Broadway musical brought to vibrant life on the big screen, even though it went directly from being a two-man mini-show in a New York comedy club to a movie with a traditonal-sounding, fully orchestrated song score, the scope of which is matched only by the gleeful vulgarity of the lyrics. (We’d say that, when it comes to the music of “Dicks,” size matters, but going that route would open quite a Pandora’s box.) Creator-screenwriter-stars Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson wrote the lyrics for the songs.
But when it came to lending them total-earworm melodies, or production values that sound like the Great White Way or golden-era Hollywood, those responsibilities fell to Marius de Vries (above, right) and Karl Saint Lucy (above, middle).
The latter co-writer has been in on the job with Sharp and Jackson since they first birthed a miniaturized version of “Dicks” (then known as “Identical Fucking Twins”) at UCB in New York nearly a decade ago.
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