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“I loved his voice and I loved the songs and I loved that he used to fly around the room like a crazy person,” Smith says.

Though there are flourishes of new material, disciples of composer Stephen Schwartz’s songs can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the changes are minor but welcome.

You come for the songs only to find allusions to fascism and genocide.

“I feel this is not only one of the best songs, if not the best song, I’ve written for a movie; it’s one of the best songs I’ve ever written in my life,” Warren says.

According to his website, he and the Beatles’ Ringo Starr are the only drummers in history to have had five songs on Billboard’s Top 10 chart simultaneously.