Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

#1

Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 11:56am

I though that that would be one of my nightmare-from-hell-questions,
so i thought i might share it with my fellow-theatre-goers!

so,
if you had to choose THREE (only three, no cheating!) favourite composers of musicals, who would they be?

simple extra RULES:
1) don't count in their lyric-writing abilities-just music.
2) choose from everywhere, anytime in history, stage or screen-but musical-writers!

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#2

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 11:58am

In no order

1.Sondheim
2.Cy Coleman
3.John Kander

#3

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 11:59am

- Sondheim
- Jason Robert Brown
- Leonard Bernstein

#4

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:00pm

1. Stephen Sondheim (NO contest here.)
2. Andrew Lloyd Webber...(sorry! Phantom is still my favorite!)
3. William Finn (Three words...A NEW BRAIN)

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#5

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:01pm

1. Stephen Sondheim
2. Jason Robert Brown
3. William Finn

#6

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:02pm

1. sondheim
2. larson
3. jason robert brown

#7

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:02pm

Sondheim
LaChiusa
Porter

An occasional dash of Coleman and Kander

Updated On: 2/26/06 at 12:02 PM

#8

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:02pm

In no order...

Michael John Lachiusa
Jason Robert Brown
Stephen Sondheim

Liking the Honorable Mentions Idea:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Johnathan Larson
Stephen Schwartz
William Finn
Alan Menken
Adam Guettel

Updated On: 4/16/06 at 12:02 PM

#9

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:04pm

Stephen Sondheim
Richard Rodgers
Frederick Loewe

Honorable mentions:

Jason Robert Brown
John Kander
Adam Guettel
Jerry Herman
July Styne
Cole Porter
Irving Berlin
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Charles Strouse
Marvin Hamlisch
Cy Coleman
Jonathan Larson

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#10

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:05pm

David Yazbek
Stephen Schwartz
Jason Robert Brown

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#11

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:07pm

When i originated this thread I never imagined people would be so decisive! be able to actually choose from the vast variety of amazing composers! worthy of appreciation...

I don't have the mental stability to choose only three favourites! that's why i tossed the question to you... to ponder it!

seems like y'all are very certain! GOD!
I promise i WILL post MY list at some point in this thread's coming history.

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#12

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:08pm

btw, does anyone else think munkustrap178 cheated ?!

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#13

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:10pm

Jerry Herman
Richard Rodgers
Stephen Sondheim

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Updated On: 2/26/06 at 12:10 PM

#14

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:11pm

Sondheim
Kander
ALW

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#15

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:12pm

Mine.

1. Alan Menken (Loved what he did with the Disney musicals of the 90s)
2. Sondheim (Love almost every show he's done)
3. Leonard Bernstein (West Side story is my favorite composition)

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#16

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:14pm

I dont think that was cheating. There was a decisive top 3 there. It's just sad to leave other greats ( who sit outside of the top 3) unmentioned.

Notice I defend myself as well.

Updated On: 2/26/06 at 12:14 PM

#17

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:16pm

I can't choose three...there are way too many to choose from

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#18

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:17pm

Sondheim
Guettel
JRB

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#19

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:17pm

William Finn
Stephen Sondheim
and my guilty pleasure, Stephen Schwartz

#20

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:18pm

Sondheim, Larson, and Jason Robert Brown. But special mentions have to go to Scott Alan and Kerrigan&Lowdermilk.

#21

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:18pm

Richard Rodgers
Stephen Sondheim
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Honorable Mentions:

Cole Porter
Adam Guettel

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#22

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:27pm

1) LaChiusa
2) LaChiusa
3) LaChiusa

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#23

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:27pm

Andrew LLoyd webber
jonathan larson
alan menken
(Im moving the number up to four because I love this man)
Stephen Sondheim

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#24

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:30pm

1. Kander
2. Sondheim
3. Rodgers

Honorable Mention
1. Loesser
2. Loewe
3. Yazbek

Updated On: 2/26/06 at 12:30 PM

#25

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:31pm

"Michael John Lachiusa
Jason Robert Brown
Stephen Sondheim"

Damnit. You stole my list, haha.

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