Composers You'd Like To Meet — Page 2

Sondheim, no contest. I met JRB at a performance at Birdland last June and he was an absolute doll. Totally sweet. But yeah, I'd do just about anything to have a real conversation with Sondheim.

I had a class on Sondheim last semester with a professor who's actually helped to translate and edit the letters for LoveMusik. (Apparently one semester when he was doing a show with Hal Prince he got him to come up and do a Q&A for his Sondheim class, but I wasn't as lucky.) He had a great story about being at Yale at the time Sondheim did The Frogs there. At the opening night party, my professor said that Sondheim was standing all by himself. So he thought, "What the hell, it's Sondheim, I'll never get a chance like this again." So he went up and talked to him. Can't remember a word of their conversation, though.

I met Menken, he was very nice (even sent me a cd of King David)

I have leterally dreamed (dreamt?) that I met Cy Coleman (RIP).

Of course the composer I most want to meet is Mr. SONDHEIM.

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Franz Lehár, at his best the greatest of them all.

I met Jason (? Howland), the composer of Little Women and he was very nice.

I also met on the street Matthew Skar, who composed the Wedding Singer and asked if I had fun and whatnot and he said "I don't care what the critics think. I see people leaving this theater happy and having fun and I feel fulfilled." Or something along those lines.

I'd like to have a 6 course dinner with Sondhiem and enjoy every singly moment of it.

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Speaking of Mac Dermott

Will a show of his ever make broadway agaian ?

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jason robert brown, leonard bernstein, george gershwin, and i guess i'm only human: sondheim.

i know, 2 & 3 isn't likely.. but if i could, i would.

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Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, and Jeff Marx.

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Kander and Ebb. Sondheim needs to stay on the pedestal I placed him on in my mind and needs to retain that god-like quality. I've seen him once and that was enough of him I'd ever need in my memory, beaming and proud. LaChiusa hopefully wouldn't be too full of himself, but I'd settle with the dynamic duo.

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Updated On: 3/4/07 at 12:33 AM

Sondheim
Kander (and Ebb, although he unfortunately is no longer with us)
Rodgers (though he's dead), although I hear he wasn't a particulary nice fellow
Guettel
Herman
Yeston

Please don't say the Richard Rodgers wasn't a nice guy, you'll crush my dreams! He HAD to be nice!

Rodgers
Webber (Genuinely)
Schoenberg

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Tim Acito...composer of Zanna, Don't! I think he would be incredibly interesting to talk to.