The only meeting up to the date between Shaiman and as director as important as Frank Oz, with Scott Rudin in the tasks of production and Paul Rudnick in the script. In fact, in the compact disc, Shaiman and jokes to both, which are gays, so we have a good comedy, which approaches openly the thorny matter of the homosexuality, with a gay scriptwriter, gay a producer and a gay composer.
The disc includes several songs, as classic as "I Will Survive", this time in voice of Diana Ross, enterteining "Macho Man" from The Village People or a classic that appeared before in other movies scored by the composer, "Everything's Coming Up Roses", by Stephen Sondheim.

Shaiman's original composition coexists very well in the CD with the songs, something that not always happens, but that here causes a very enterteining CD and that can be summarized as this:

-A Main Theme: Included in the first track of score, "Wedding Preparations", which occupies the whole take-off of the movie, and where you can listen a second main theme, often used of the brideīs character. Among these two themes, different motives, of comical and incidental nature, in continuous changes of tone and intensity, doing of this track one of the best from this CD release.
-Music for the Oscar Awards. The track "To Serve and Protect", is destined for the movie for which Matt Dillonīs role gets an Oscar. It is a unique kind of music in the soundtrack far in style and sound from the rest of the score. It is a question of a warlike movie that seems to be a parody of Born on the 4th of July, which causes a dramatic, exciting, heroic and spectacular music, and where you can guess a curious parodic reference to legendary John Williams's work for the mentioned movie, thanks to certain fragment of violin. A brilliant compilation of sounds that works genially to the war, to the military judgment and to the final drama in Washington.
-A second main theme for the bride: Heard on the first track and also into tracks as "Cameron and Emily".
-Comical incidental music. The rest of the score mainly consists on a constant game of enterteining, incidental passages and supporting an almost frantic pace, including variants of the main themes that, for a moment, almost seem to carry us to the score for City Slickers. This tone is kept during great part of the footage, up to the cut "Mom & Dad", where start an intimate and sentimental music passages, in variants of the main themes. A musical fragment turns out to be curious for the final moment of the movie, under a classic sound from musicals and that seems to make homage to Sondheim, because contains notes similar to "Lovely" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Very good track.
-Source music and musical numbers. They are songs included in CD release that, as "I Will Survive" have a special interest in the movie plot,

As conclusion it is necessary to emphasize that, though slightly more of music could exist in the movie and still unreleased, we can say that the compact disc includes the best parts of the score, and among those song what stands out specially are some tracks as "Wedding Preparations", "To Serve and Protect" or "Teacher of the Year / People / The Wedding".
Id love to listed more music composed by Marc Shaiman for a Frank Oz movie in the future.

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