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Composers You'd Like To Meet
#25re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 2:32am
Adam Guettel.
I already met Sondheim...he was nice. Also, I met John Kander, which was cool.
#26re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 2:43am
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.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#27re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:04am
The one I would do ANYTHING to meet and have a conversation with? Stephen Sondheim. The man is a genius.
I'd also love to meet Jeff Marx. I've talked to him many many many times over Myspace (so he actually knows me.) but I've never really MET him. He's a very sweet guy.
#28re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 6:54am
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.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#29re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 7:22am
Michael John LaChiusa
Paul Scott Goodman
Adam Guettel
David Yazbek (just to tell him who really deserved that Tony for Best Score back in '01)
Stephen Sondheim
Henry Krieger
ztJdBrVa
Chorus Member Joined: 1/27/07
#30re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 8:18amFranz Lehár, at his best the greatest of them all.
#31re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 8:29am
Kander & Ebb (But I guess it's too late for Ebb)
Sondheim
MacDermot
Krieger
What?
Oh wait, Call me. Frank.
#32re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 8:32am
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.
To Kill A Mockingbird
keen on kean
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#33re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 11:19amSondheim. I have also heard about how shy he is but whenever I have seen him (at the talkback after Encores! Follies, for example) he seems so bright and funny. I like the idea of a six-course dinner, too, just me and him and two other people he is comfortable with - to put him more at ease.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#34re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:50pm
Speaking of Mac Dermott
Will a show of his ever make broadway agaian ?
#35re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 5:24pmCertainly Sondheim!
dramaqueen2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/05
#36re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 9:01pm
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.
#37re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 10:41pmIf I met sondheim I think I might pass out. I met jeff Marx, cuz he went to my high school
#38re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/3/07 at 10:43pmSondheim, Kander and Ebb, and Jeff Marx.
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#40re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/4/07 at 12:33am
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.
#41re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/4/07 at 12:34amAlso, I'd love to meet ALW and tell him that I actually like CATS.
#42re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/4/07 at 12:52am
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
#43re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/4/07 at 11:47am
I met Duncan Sheik and that was absolutely amazing. But other ones would be:
Andrew Lippa
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Sondheim
Adam Guettel
Jason Robert Brown
David Yazbek
Henry Krieger (He's my friends cousin)
John Kander
Then there are a ton of people who aren't alive, specifically Fred Ebb and Jonathan Larson.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#44re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/4/07 at 12:48pm
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
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#46re: Composers You'd Like To Meet
Posted: 3/4/07 at 1:11pmTim Acito...composer of Zanna, Don't! I think he would be incredibly interesting to talk to.
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