The Plotzes and Zetzes of a Life in the Musical Trenches

The Plotzes and Zetzes of a Life in the Musical Trenches

A lot of dreams have come true for Marc Shaiman, Broadway songwriter, soundtrack savant, Jewish Eeyore and human Spotify. (Go ahead, ask him: He knows every song.) And yet each fruition seems to have prompted an equal and opposite karmic blowback. In 2012, after bragging to his mother that he’d “rehearsed with Billy Crystal all day and recorded with Bette Midler all night,” she pricked his ego balloon by saying, “So, maybe through them you’ll me…