From Gobs puppet-assisted parody It Aint Easy Being White to the adventures of Dr. Fnkes 100% Natural Good-Time Family Band Solution, music has always been an essential part of cult comedy series Arrested Development. Now the shows hilarious original tunes will find a home on the soundtrack LP At Long Last. . . Music and Songs from Arrested Development, out November 19th.
As Indiewire reports, the songs were written by composer David Schwartz, who says the 42-track album came after a high fan demand.
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A majority of the album is weighted toward the songs, Schwartz said. Most of the songs composed for the show came together organically, but quite often [creator Mitchell Hurwitz] would call me up requesting one and float some lyrics by me while he was driving. When it comes to the humor and parody of the songs, Mitch has a great deal of trust in the shows super-smart fans. He never wants any musical reference to be too obvious.
In other Arrested Development news, Hurwitz and many members of the shows eclectic cast will appear on a November 7th episode of James Liptons prestigious interview series Inside the Actors Studio. Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia de Rossi, Jessica Walter and Alia Shawkat will reunite on the program; fan favorites Michael Cera, David Cross and Tony Hale wont be in attendance.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Hurwitz recently discussed plans to pursue a fifth season on Netflix (and a possible feature film) at the New York TV Festival. Its not my decision, but its what I want to do, Hurwitz said. The reason Im not just saying, lets go do the series next, is because Im worried itll take two years to make all those deals a mess of people, a weird tease to all of us and the audience. So my goal is to do a movie for Netflix-type thing, and then go into the series.
A stream of Get Away (sung by the shows former teen-heartthrob character Mark Cherry, played by Daniel Amerman) from At Long LastMusic and Songs from Arrested Development is available here.