Though he is best known for his roles in Broadway productions like +The Changing Room (for which he won a Tony) and films like Terms of Endearment, The World According to Garp, Footloose, and Shrek, John Lithgow is also a best-selling children's author as well as a performer. In 1999 his first album for kids, Singin' in the Bathtub, which covered classic songs, was released, followed three years later by Farkle and Friends, which accompanied his book -The Remarkable Farkle McBride and found Lithgow backed by the Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra.