Even More Singing in the Building
I’ve been posting songs that were performed in the Hulu series, Only Murders in the Building, whose storyline this year centered around putting together a Broadway production of a musical. So, here’s a third number.
This one is sung wonderfully by Meryl Streep (she sings two numbers in the series, both gloriously), with a small assistance by Paul Rudd, titled "For the Sake of a Child." In the musical being staged, Streep’s actress character plays a nanny for infant triplets bizarrely suspected of the stage murder, and Rudd’s arrogant movie star character is making his Broadway debut playing the detective. And we see the number being performed in a flashback.
A sort of tiny – borderline insignificant “warning” (though it’s not much of one). While it doesn’t even remotely give away anything about the murder mystery that the season is trying to solve, it does “give away” a plot point in the musical within the show -- which honestly isn't a big deal at all – and, to repeat, has absolutely nothing to do with the mystery in the series overall. But if you haven’t watched the third season yet, and plan to and want to know absolutely nothing, then perhaps you’ll want to skip this. Just know that this plot point within the musical is pretty much not even addressed during the season except here, which shows how minor it is, since the TV viewing audience really doesn’t care.
The songs for the series were written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote the stage musical Dear Evan Hansen, and the move musicals La La Land and The Greatest Showman. They augmented their work here by bringing in other accomplished writers to collaborate with them on most of the songs. For Meryl Streep’s song noted above, it was co-written with Sara Bareilles. For this number, they worked with the playwright and composer Michael R. Jackson, whose musical “A Strange Loop” won a Pulitzer and two Tony Awards.
By the way, if you missed the two other songs we’ve posted here, you can find the links to them at --
Meryl Streep singing “Look for the Light”.
Steve Martin singing “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?”
But back to the number at hand, here wonderfully is Meryl Streep once again -- along with a tidbit of Paul Rudd.
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