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'Frozen' songwriters pen a musical number for Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris

"YouTube, get ready!" the producers of the Oscars telecast said in a statement.

By Karen Butler
Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez, left, and Robert Lopez hold their awards for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song 'Frozen' backstage during the 86th Academy Awards last year. File Photo by Phil McCarten/UPI
1 of 2 | Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez, left, and Robert Lopez hold their awards for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song 'Frozen' backstage during the 86th Academy Awards last year. File Photo by Phil McCarten/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Married Frozen songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez are working on an original, multimedia, musical sequence for Neil Patrick Harris to perform at the Oscars.

"On the heels of the international success of last year's Frozen and their Oscar for 'Let It Go,' we couldn't be happier to have Kristen and Bobby Lopez write an incredibly special song for Neil Patrick Harris and special guests to perform this year on the Oscar stage," Oscar telecast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said in a joint statement Tuesday. "YouTube, get ready!"

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"We love the Oscars and have always been huge Neil Patrick Harris fans, so when he asked us to write him a song for this year's show, we said, 'Yes!' before he could finish the sentence -- it's possible he may have been asking us for something else," added the Lopezes. "We are having so much fun collaborating, and have even enjoyed weaving our experience as Oscar nominees into the song."

The Oscars ceremony honoring excellence in film for 2014 is to air Feb. 22 on ABC.

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