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#26

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:32pm

1. Stephen Sondheim
2. Leonard Bernstein
3. John Kander

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#27

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:33pm

Stephen Sondheim
Richard Rodgers
I originally wrote John Kander, but I changed my mind to George Gershwin

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Updated On: 2/26/06 at 12:33 PM

#28

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:48pm

Stephen Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown
Michael John LaChiusa

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#29

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:50pm

Choosing just three is very difficult:

Sondheim
Loesser
Rodgers

When they have more work under their collective belts, Brown and Guettel may well replace the second two. No one is taking Sondheim off that list.

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#30

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:01pm

I almost couldn't bear to choose!

Well, my absolute number 1 is Sondheim.
I listen to Adam Guettel's three CDs a LOT. I mean, a lot a lot. I don't know if he deserves a place as one of my favorite composers until he's had more work under his belt, but in spirit he occupies a "my favorite" place in my heart.
Eric Idle... no, completely jay kay... I dunno, I can't pick a third. I'm not good at ranking things. I guess Sondheim is my favorite composer, and then there are maybe five people who are at the top for various reasons on various days.

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#31

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:06pm

Sondheim
Sondheim
Sondheim

#32

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:11pm

Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown
Adam Geuttel

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#33

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:18pm

-Andrew Lloyd Webber
-Jason Robert Brown
-Jim Steinman

#34

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:26pm

stephan sondheim
jason robert brown
william finn

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#35

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:55pm

1. Sondheim
2. Tesori
3. Guettel

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#36

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 2:28pm

Stephen Sondheim
Alan Menken
Jason Robert Brown

#37

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 2:51pm

Jonathan Larson
Stephen Schwartz
Andrew Lloyd Webber

*Honorable Mention*
Jason Robert Brown

#38

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 2:57pm

1. Jason Robert Brown
2. Stephen Schwartz
3. Andrew Lippa

In that order.

#39

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:00pm

1) Stephen Sondheim- I've gotten very attached to him in the past year.
2) Cole Porter- Amazing melodies, way ahead of his time
3) Paul Gordon- Jane Eyre, need I say more

Honorable Mentions:
Richard Rodgers
Jason Robert Brown
John Kander
Fredrick Loewe
Paul Gordon
ALW

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#40

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:14pm

stephen sondheim
jason robert brown
adam guettel

honorables:
gershwin
bernstein
ALW (come on, you know you like him)
kander

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#41

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:28pm

1. Alan Menken
2. Jason Robert Brown
3. William Finn

honorables:
Sondheim
Kander
Coleman
Schwartz
Larson
Webber
Steinman
Loewe

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#42

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:35pm

Sondheim
Flattery
La Chuisa

Runners Up: Rodgers, Bernstein

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#43

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:37pm

1. Andrew Lloyd Webber
2. Sondheim
3.5 I don't know if Billy Joel counts for Movin' Out, but hes one of my favorite composers but if he doesnt count then My third is
3.5 Jonathon Larson

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#44

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:51pm

Bernstein
Gershwin
Sondheim

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#45

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:53pm

SONDHEIM!
Larson
Bernstein

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#46

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:02pm

Wow, this is hard.

Adam Guettel
Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown

#47

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:02pm

1. Stephen Sondheim

2. Michael John LaChuisa

3. TIE (no order)
Alan Menken
Leonard Bernstein
Jason Robert Brown
Adam Guettel
Jonathan Larson
Stephen Schwartz

#48

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:15pm

theatre queen -- EXCELLENT POINT about billy joel. he's most definitely one of my favorite composers.

and ihearttheatre -- 6 way tie? really? come on, don't you think that's a little excessive :-P

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#49

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:16pm

At least the six way tie was due to excellent taste.

#50

Not possible.

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:32pm

There is no way to choose three. I have a long list.
But, I will list my top 9.
1. Jerry Herman
2. Jeanine Tesori
3. Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez
4. Rodgers and Hart
6. Bill Finn
7. Ebb
8. Gerard Alessandrini
9. Schwartz for Pippin

Updated On: 2/26/06 at 04:32 PM