What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Mr Roxy
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#1What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:14pmJerry Herman
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#2re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:16pmAdam Guettel.
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#2re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:18pmI'm with IBF. I was going to see Guettel too.
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#3re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:30pm
I'll cheat just a little bit and choose three composer's:
Jerry Herman, Charles Strouse, Stephen Sondheim :)
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#4re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:30pm
Adam Guettel
Michael John Lachiusa
William Finn (Yes, I know Spelling Bee was recent, but still)
Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
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#5re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:33pmBURT BACHARACH!!!!!
#6re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:35pmJason Robert Brown
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#7re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:42pmCan I bring back dead ones?
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#8re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:45pm
All of the good one's are dead..
Well, except Jerry
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#9re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:49pm
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Mr Roxy
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#10re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:50pmCy Coleman & his unproduced musicals.
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#11re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:53pm
Strouse.
"Can I bring back dead ones?"
If there are dead ones who have unproduced shows that are any good then I don't see why not.
Personally, I'd love to see someone put on Cole Porter's Aladdin just as a one night only charity event or something. I've never heard any of the music and know that it's been panned but it's Porter could it be THAT bad?
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Updated On: 2/12/08 at 07:53 PM
#12re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:56pmManilow
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
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#13re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 8:01pmI agree 100% with BACHARACH!!!
#14re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 8:04pm..but not in the form of the dire 'Look Of Love' a few years back! One of the most dreadful nights on Broadway ive had
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
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#15re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 8:55pm
SONDHEIM!
Ya'll disappoint me...
Mr Roxy
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#16re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:14pmBring Lost Horizon To Broadway for Bacharach fans.
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#17re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:20pm
Thank you all for not saying Frank Wildhorn.
I'm waiting for the return of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. (They were represented last year by Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, which was an underrated and very, very funny score. Too bad they didn't get more recognition for it. They have a talent for making very very funny songs.)
Catch Me If You Can should be interesting.
#18re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:25pmCatch Me If You Can will be fantastic.
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#19re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:30pmFrank Wildhorn
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#20re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:35pm
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#21re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:44pmSondheim. But preferably not with "Bounce".
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#22re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:51pm
Ahrens and Flaherty, Strouse, Guettel, Sondheim, and Finn.
... a top 5? 
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#23re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:55pmSondheim. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE one more.
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#24re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/12/08 at 11:07pm
I love Sondheim just as much as the next guy, and that is why I must insist he doesn't return to Broadway. Considering the resounding failure that was THE FROGS and the almost complete reluctance to produce BOUNCE, it looks to me that he doesn't have it anymore.
Stephen created (or co-created) about a dozen of the finest musicals that we have ever seen. I would hate to see a late show ruin that.
Don't let Stephen Sondheim MJ himself.
He deserves better.
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