Marco Pennette has spent much of his career as a television writer, so he knows how to write “down to the second,” as he put it. Those skills served him as he adapted the movie “Death Becomes Her” into a stage musical. Pennette packs a wallop in his Tony Award-nominated book for the musical, making room for the story the movie-lovers know, new twists, additional character development and joke after joke.

Listen to the latest episode of “5 minutes with a Tony nominee” hosted by Ruthie Fierberg, executive editor of  Broadway News, to hear directly from Pennette about putting a fresh take on the story for the stage and penning a new ending.

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Photo credit: Marco Pennette; photo by Mike Coppola for Getty Images/Tony Awards Productions