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07.10.2023 - 02:25 / variety.com
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. When the project got picked up for film treatment, de Vries came on board, to lend a hand that has been practiced on other movie musicals, from “Moulin Rouge” to “La La Land.” (You may also know him outside of filmdom as a veteran record producer who’s done notable work with Madonna and Bjork, among countless others.) Variety had a serious talk with Saint Lucy and de Vries about their somewhat straight-faced show tunes and score for the outrageous new musical.
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The most appreciative audience for “Dicks: The Musical” may be the Venn-diagram overlap between viewers who think the envelope for raunchy language in R-rated comedies doesn’t get pushed nearly hard enough and people who saw “Les Miserables” on Broadway three times. In other words, the warning not for every taste has never applied more.
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