Remembering Adam Schlesinger with the creators, songwriters, and cast of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Rachel Bloom with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend musical collaborator Adam Schlesinger, who died this week of complications from COVID-19. Photo: Walter McBride/Getty Images By the time it ended last year, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had gifted 157 songs to the world. A lot of the musical credit goes to Grammy- and Emmy-winning composer, songwriter, and producer Adam Schlesinger, who died on April 1 at age 52 from complications of COVID-19.
Schlesinger, Bloom, and Dolgen at the Creative Arts Emmys. Photo: Courtesy of Aline Brosh-McKenna I found out Adam was in the hospital on a ventilator hours after my daughter was born, and she was in the NICU also on a ventilator. It was so on the nose. People on Twitter have been quoting the song we wrote, “The End of the Movie.” The reprise is “sometimes life is annoyingly obvious and it’s so on the nose.
I remember once he said to me, “It doesn’t make any sense that we’ve been able to do this.” He was really bowled over by the amount of songs that we were doing. He said, “The only person who thought this was possible was you, and that’s because you’re not a musician or a songwriter.” Because if I had been, I would have known what it really meant to write two or three songs every week. It was relentless.
He was extremely thoughtful. After they won the Emmy, you can request a certificate for someone who contributed to the Emmy. And he got me a certificate but he didn’t tell me I was getting it. So I got this piece of mail from the Academy, and it was a certificate with my name on it. And I sent him a text, and I asked, “What is this amazing certificate you gave me?” And he said, “They sent me a form to order some certificates. So you got one. Sorry I did not include my actual Emmy.
Dolgen and Schlesinger collaborating. Photo: Courtesy of Aline Brosh-McKenna My favorite way of writing in that group was that the three of us would get together and brainstorm, ideally in person, but if not on the phone. Adam was just a superstar at turning a brainstorm into a fully completed song. It seemed easy the way he did it. It’s very unusual what he was able to do. He made everyone’s life easier, but he was sometimes a pain in the ass, too.
Pete Gardner Adam was a made man; he was legitimate. When I met him, he’d already won some Emmys, he’d been nominated for an Oscar. I was very new to the singing world, and the very first song that I had to sing was “I Love My Daughter .” We would do our songs at the table reads and mine came after Santino Fontana had sung “Settle for Me” the week before, and it was like sitting next to Frank Sinatra.
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