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Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#25re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:32pm
1. Stephen Sondheim
2. Leonard Bernstein
3. John Kander
Stop looking at my charisma.
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#26re: 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
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
Updated On: 2/26/06 at 12:33 PM
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#27re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 12:48pm
Stephen Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown
Michael John LaChiusa
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#28re: 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.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#29re: 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.
yr ronin,
joey
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Attendthetale331
Featured Actor Joined: 1/8/06
#31re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:11pm
Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown
Adam Geuttel
"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."
#32re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:18pm
-Andrew Lloyd Webber
-Jason Robert Brown
-Jim Steinman
rent1988
Featured Actor Joined: 11/22/04
#33re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:26pm
stephan sondheim
jason robert brown
william finn
life is PANDEMONIUM.
MrBungee7
Stand-by Joined: 1/8/05
#34re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 1:55pm
1. Sondheim
2. Tesori
3. Guettel
What's pink and green and flies all over?
DiamondGirl
Stand-by Joined: 10/1/05
#35re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 2:28pm
Stephen Sondheim
Alan Menken
Jason Robert Brown
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#36re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 2:51pm
Jonathan Larson
Stephen Schwartz
Andrew Lloyd Webber
*Honorable Mention*
Jason Robert Brown
#37re: 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.
bwaybaby891
Featured Actor Joined: 2/8/05
#38re: 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
"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals"
-Benjamin Franklin
Sporti2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/04
#39re: 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
"grace, you're stuffed in a box getting rid of ass plaque. let's face it, this evening is a bust."
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#40re: 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
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#41re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:35pm
Sondheim
Flattery
La Chuisa
Runners Up: Rodgers, Bernstein
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
#42re: 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
~Now I'm standing centre stage, I'm at home at last!~
#43re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:51pm
Bernstein
Gershwin
Sondheim
Hear the words I sing: war's a horrid thing. So, I sing sing sing... Ding a ling a ling.
#44re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 3:53pm
SONDHEIM!
Larson
Bernstein
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#45re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:02pm
Wow, this is hard.
Adam Guettel
Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#46re: 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
Sporti2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/04
#47re: 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
"grace, you're stuffed in a box getting rid of ass plaque. let's face it, this evening is a bust."
#48re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!
Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:16pmAt least the six way tie was due to excellent taste.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#49Not 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
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