Contemp. Singers/Songwriters writing a musical?

[Liza + Jesus = Patti]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 12:04pm

I'm sure it's been asked before but I am going through a Jason Mraz obsession period, right now, and believe he could write a brilliant contempoary score for Musical Theatre.

What contemp. singers and songwriters, who haven't already, could really write a good score for musical theatre??

Why?

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 12:09pm

well, you know that Jason Mraz was actually going to do musical theatre in college before he dropped out for his music career? and he participated in a BUNCH of local productions when he was around the high school age in my area :) so i think yeah, he could do it

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 12:16pm

I was just thinking about Ben Folds and theatre...

I remember a year or two ago there, wasn't there a concert of Broadway performers singing his music? And, at the same time, there were some articles/rumors/talk that he was actually writing a musical?

I would love a Ben Folds musical!!

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 12:18pm

I just wanted to add... I find his music to be so theatrical and dramatic and almost all tell such a great and detailed story. His writing is very similar to JRB on those two levels and I think he would be a great MT composer.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 4:46pm

I second Ben Folds
as well as The Dresden Dolls and Regina Spektor

[winter_sky]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 5:16pm

Regina Spektor
Rufus Wainwright
Ben Folds

[UKtheatrekid]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 5:37pm

Rufus Wainwright has written an opera premiering at the Manchester International Festival eith this eyar or next,
and Pete Doherty & Car Barat of the libertines are working on a musical for the donmar warehouse
x

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 6:45pm

i love ben folds too!!

but i love REGINA EVEN MORE! :) :) :)
she is my idol and i was thinking it would be AMAZING if she did one :)

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 6:49pm

Yes to Regina and The Dresden Dolls.

But I would kill to see Nellie McKay write a musical.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 7:06pm

I was thinking of Nellie McKay, but I'd rather see her act. She was so good in Threepenny. Maybe she could go Lin Manuel Miranda and do both. She would write a very smart, cheeky show.
As much as I'd love to see The ReSpektor write a show, for some reason I can't see it actually happening. Atleast not a full fledged, Broadway material musical. Maybe a short, small chamber piece, or a concept recording, or some sort of childrens show.

[Liza + Jesus = Patti]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 7:09pm

could deff see a Concept Recording.

not a full musical.

Regina was trained, to an extent, in musical theatre... wasn't she??

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 7:11pm

Belle & Sebastian.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 11/15/08 at 5:54pm

I just remembered The Dresden Dolls have already written a musical, The Onion Cellar.
It was a pseudo-musical-cabaret-jukebox-rock show hybrid borrowing songs the duo already wrote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion_Cellar