"Scott Wittman" (born 1955) is an United States/American director, lyricist, and writer for Broadway theatre/Broadway, concerts, and television.

Wittman was raised in Nanuet, New York, graduated high Nanuet Senior High School in 1972 and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical theatre in New York City. While directing a show for a Greenwich Village club he met Marc Shaiman, and the two became collaborators and life partners. While Shaiman wrote for television shows, including Saturday Night Live, Wittman directed concerts for such artists as Bette Midler, Christine Ebersole, Raquel Welch, Dame Edna Everage, and Lypsinka, among others.

In 2002, Shaiman and Wittman collaborated on Hairspray (musical)/Hairspray, which won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, the Tony Award for Best Original Score, and a Grammy Award. In addition to Hairspray, Wittman conceived, wrote lyrics for, and directed Martin Short/Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and conceived and directed Matters of the Heart, a solo concert by Patti LuPone.

The partners worked on Catch Me If You Can (musical)/Catch Me If You Can, a musical adaptation of the 2002 Steven Spielberg Catch Me If You Can/film, together with Terrence McNally. They again worked together on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical.

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The narrowness in the market is troubling and that probably means that the short term is not going to be all that exciting.

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The narrowness of the market is troubling and that probably means that the short-term is not going to be all that exciting and that's what leads me to the conclusion that, while 10,000 is a milestone, it does not herald the next leg up in the bull market.

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Either the smaller and mid-cap companies start to catch up or the larger cap companies will come down to meet them. It's one of those two, ... We're obviously hoping that it's the smaller and mid-cap companies that start to catch up.

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Everyone assumed the Internet would be the thing and somehow the Internet would damage their business.

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We did a workshop version in the fall in New York, and for four weeks we honed the show. Then we brought in four other people and started writing to their strengths.

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