We've Got Hollywood Covered Ryan Murphy on ‘The Prom': ‘The World Was Feeling Dark, I Wanted to Make Something Light’ TheWrap magazine: “It was one of those weird things where everything fell into place, which has never really happened in my career so far,” says the director By Steve Pond | December 23, 2020 @ 1:54 PM A version of this story about Ryan Murphy and “The Prom” first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine. This was supposed to be a year when the musical part of the Golden Globes Best Musical or Comedy category would really mean something. Three large-scale stage musical adaptations of Broadway shows were due to be released — Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Jon Chu’s “In the Heights” and Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom” — making this the first time in 13 years that musicals might outnumber comedies among the nominees.