Composers You Would Love To See Do Musicals
Composers You Would Love To See Do Musicals
#0Composers You Would Love To See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 5:02am
I think Charles Aznavours would do a marvelous job composing scores for musical.
Updated On: 5/7/05 at 05:02 AM
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#1re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 5:12amRufus Wainwright.
#2re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 7:46amJim Brickman
#3re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 8:02amDefinitely Rufus, plus Kate Bush and Prince. (not all together!)
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#5re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 8:52am
I'll add Christine Lavin and Michael McKean. The latter is currently working on one with his wife, Annette O'Toole (they played a song from it at Standing Ovations 2)
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 9:10am
i have to pick up the new book by Rupert Holmes which has some jazz music enclosed with it. His music for Drood was pretty amazing. I'd like to see what (after a very long haitus) can do next.
Updated On: 5/7/05 at 09:10 AM
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#7re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 9:23am
Perhaps John Williams.
Updated On: 5/7/05 at 09:23 AM
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#8re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 9:55am
Deena, SWING is decent. Nothing fabulous and not nearly as incredible as DROOD.
Would love to see Carol King get her hands on a Broadway musical.
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#9re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 10:08am
The Roches!
And if Rufus doesn't write a musical, maybe his dad Loudon Wainwright III would.
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#10re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 10:58am
Michael Daugherty and Randall Woolf are two of the most interesting and gifted composers around right now. It would be fascinating to see what either of them might come up with in the musical theatre form.
William Bolcom is another composer whom I'd like to see cross over and do a full-fledged Broadway/Off-Broadway musical. His "Casino Paradise" comes close.
#11re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:00am
You're right Master and Wildcat, Rufus Wainwright would write a great musical!
Hmmm...who else? Tori Amos.
She's even said she wants to write one.
Updated On: 5/7/05 at 11:00 AM
#12re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:03amWould also love to see the Cretu (Enigma) write scores for a musical. Could be very interesting, but maybe too electronic for the purist.
Jazzysuite82
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/6/05
#13re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:08amBen Folds. He's a great storyteller.
#14re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:10am
"Ben Folds. He's a great storyteller."
Good call. Another great storyteller, Peter Gabriel.
#15re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:15am
Ben, Ben, Ben Folds.
Years ago, on Fresh Air, the Five played and the interviewer mentioned he could write a good musical.
Ben proceeded to play a song he wrote one night for this "musical." It was absolutely hysterical.
I have no doubt he'd write a fantastic pop score that would actually work!
#16re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 11:30amBen Folds is great. I saw him last summer, and he puts on a great show. His lyrics are really honest. He'd write a great musical if he had the right source.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#17re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 12:48pmJazz genius Dave Frischberg.
#18re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 1:09pmJERRY HERMAN
#20re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 4:46pm
Phillip Glass, more than anyone.
I would also like to see Corine write a musical. It would star Harvey Fierstein and be about a young girls love affair with homosexual men.
Ben and Rufus, mentioned above, as well.
#21re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 5:23pm
Phillip Glass has written many pieces that could be called musicals, operas, or whatever you want to call them.
Einstein on the Beach is a brilliant work. Whatever it is.
MissMommy
Chorus Member Joined: 1/28/05
#22re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 5:53pmThis world needs more Menken!
#23re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/7/05 at 5:57pm
H.O.W.A.R.D S.H.O.R.E
that man is a genius
jollipops
Chorus Member Joined: 4/10/05
#24re: Composers You Would Love See Do Musicals
Posted: 5/8/05 at 2:29amAbsoulutely DANNY ELFMAN. what a genius! And i agree with a previous comment 'the world needs more Menken'
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