Current Broadway Composers/Lyricists
Current Broadway Composers/Lyricists
einna
Swing Joined: 3/30/09
#1Current Broadway Composers/Lyricists
Posted: 8/23/09 at 4:46pm
If you had to name some of the best or your favorite current Broadway composers/lyricists who would be on your list?
Updated On: 8/23/09 at 04:46 PM
#2re: Current Broadway Composers/Lyricists
Posted: 8/23/09 at 4:58pmMy favorite is Lin-Manuel Miranda. I think what he did with "In The Heights" is incredible and original.
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AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#2re: Current Broadway Composers/Lyricists
Posted: 8/23/09 at 5:04pmThe score for In the Heights was one of the few things I liked about that show. I am obsessed with the score of [title of show]. And Next to Normal's Tony was well deserved.
#3re: Current Broadway Composers/Lyricists
Posted: 8/23/09 at 7:37pmStephen Sondheim.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Current Broadway Composers/Lyricists
Posted: 8/23/09 at 9:54pmTom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, and Jason Robert Brown.
#5re: Current Broadway Composers/Lyricists
Posted: 8/23/09 at 10:28pm
David Yazbek - twice it's worked for me.
A few people have come up with scores I like, even though their previous work never impressed me, including William Finn (Spelling Bee)and Jason Robert Brown (13).
I think that NEXT TO NORMAL is the most compelling score I've heard in many seasons, but I still cringe recalling High Fidelity - hopefully N2N is more representative of what they can and want to do.
As for Sondheim .... most of his scores are on my "favorites: list, but really, what has he turned out recently? I hardly think of him as a "current composer/lyricist" since the most recent "new" shows have been revisions of revisions. How many more times will ASSASSINS and ROAD SHOW/BOUNCE/whatever get tweaked and performed? Fortunatel, there are enough Sondheim shows so that we get regular revivals to remind us of how great musical theatre can really be.
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