Favorite Composer

Who's your favorite composer or music/lyricist team? Mine's Ahrens/Flaherty

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Updated On: 9/11/08 at 11:03 AM

Because I'm totally uncultured, I'll say Alan Menken!

I'm also pretty fond of Frank Wildhorn.

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Stephen Sondheim.

His musicals are metaphors.

Updated On: 9/12/08 at 07:08 PM

either kander and ebb or sondheim

My hat goes to Sondheim, but they're all so different. I love so many, and I have a feeling not all of them will be mentioned here, so to preserve the honor of my heroes, here we go:

Lerner/Loewe
Adler/Ross
Hammerstein/Kern
Rodgers/Hart
Rodgers/Hammerstein
Berlin
Boubil/Schoenberg

and, already mentioned
Cole Porter
Kander/Ebb
JRB

I also feel Webber deserves a mention, although for me he's very hit-or-miss.

I'm very surprised Ahrens/Flaherty would be anyone's top...
Don't feel bad about liking him if you do (same goes for Menken and Wildhorn), but be sure you use them to push you into some more theatrical stuffs.

EDIT: I feel terrible, but I forgot the lovely pair Comden/Greeen

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Updated On: 9/27/08 at 02:31 PM

Pasek and Paul

:)

Of all time: Sondheim, Bernstein,Adam Guettel, and JRB

currently obsessed with: Kooman/Dimond and Joe Iconis

listening to Pattis "Don't Cry for me Argentina". Chills.
Andrew LW. JCS and PTO arent too bad either.

Is it too soon to say Kerrigan/Lowdermilk? I think not!

But for something a little more classic, you can't go wrong with Sondheim.

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