Enjoy 30 of our favorite Broadway patter songs in this playlist, which includes tunes from: Barnum, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Merrily We Roll Along, Little Shop of Horrors, Company, She Loves Me ...

How Steve Martin’s Epic ‘Pickwick Triplets’ Patter Song From ‘Only Murders’ Created Lyrics Like ‘A Diaper Full of Criminal Intent’ Meredith Woerner Thu, August 15, 2024 at 12:10 AM UTC ...

Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul marveled at Steve Martin’s ability to perform their rapid-fire song in Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building.Martin’s character, Charles-Haden Savage ...

The number is a patter song, which Savage struggles to master in the series. Pasek admitted the challenges of singing a patter song, saying “We have tried to do it and failed many times.” ...

Patter songs show up across opera, musical theater and even pop music, and include a famous aria in “The Barber of Seville” (“Figaro qua, Figaro la, Figaro su, ...

UPDATE, with statement: A lot was riding on Steve Martin‘s near-superhuman ability to spit out an error-free tongue-twisting patter song at crucial moments of the Broadway-themed season of Hulu ...