Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

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Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 8:44pm

Just for fun, who are your favorite Broadway composers that were NOT born on March 22nd (That means no Sondheim or Webber, folks!). Mine are Cy Coleman, David Yazbek, Jule Styne, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin and the VERY under-appreciated Harold Rome.

Yours?

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 9:21pm

Most definetly Jason Robert Brown. I don't know his exact birthday, but it's pretty unlikely that it's March 22 right? I love his music. I like every song on SFANW and L5Y. He's amazing.

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 9:27pm

-Cole Porter
-Stephen Schwartz
-Jason Robert Brown
-David Yazbeck
-Andrew Lippa

...those are also my favorites if March 22 was fair game...I hate ALW, and like most of Sondheim's works, but don't love it all.

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 9:56pm

JASON ROBERT BROWN. Hands down without a doubt in my mind. Yazbeck is my second favorite.

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:07pm

Guettal, Gershwin, Flaherty, and Bock

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:10pm

Jason Robert Brown and Maury Yeston

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:12pm

I don't like that birthday clause, but if I must choose another composer that's nto Sondheim then it has got to be the team of Kander & Ebb because they wrote the music for my favorite show "Chicago." Also, I think Adam Guettel and Jonathan Larson are/were great composers and their songs are extremely touching and deep.

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:17pm

Ahem.

JASON ROBERT BROWN.

The end!

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:46pm

Adam Guettel

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:56pm

Guettel, Brown, LaChiusa, Tesori, Gordan, Finn, Intrabartolo, A & F, Miller/Tysen, Lopez and Marx, Yazbek...Pretty much all the 'good' modern writers...

I'm not one for the older generation but I love R & H (such craft!) Bernstein, Jule Styne is perhaps my fav. of that era.

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/12/05 at 11:03pm

I also like Boubil and Schonberg and Kander and Ebb.

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 12:58am

1. Richard Rodgers
2. George Gershwin
2. Fritz Loewe
3. Irving berlin
4. Jerome Kern
5. Victor Herbert
6. Cole Porter
7. Jule Styne
8. Frank Loesser
9. Leonard Bernstein
10.Jerry Herman

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 1:34am

Jonathan Larson - duh!

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 2:53am

There is only ONE Broadway composer born on March 22, plus one British hack songwriter.

Favorite other Broadway composers:

Rodgers, Gershwin, Bernstein, Kern, Loesser, Styne

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:27am

Bernstein, Styne, Rodgers, Guettel, Herman, Porter, GOD, it's so hard not to say Sondheim!!

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:09am

Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 11:03am

-Jule Styne
-Harold Arlen
-Jerry Herman
-Jason Robert Brown
-Stephen Schwartz
-Michael John LaChuisa
-Flaherty/Ahrens
-Alan Menken
-Rodgers/Hammerstein or Hart
-Loewe/Lerner
-Bock/Harnick
-Kander/Ebb

Granted, not everything these people have written is "gold", but on the whole, very fulfilling songwriting.

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 11:40am

Jason Robert Brown
George Gershwin
Fritz Loewe (so much so that I want to name my son after him, if I ever have one)
Leonard Berstein

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 12:45pm

Speaking strictly musically: Rodgers, Flattery, Bernstein & La Chuisa

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:56pm

Jonathan Larson

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:58pm

Jason Robert Brown!

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 5:04pm

Kander & Ebb
Cy Coleman
Jonathan Larson
Alan Menken

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 5:07pm

I'm with you, Timote. I don't think Larson had near the experience or the chance to really see his full potential, but I'd replace him with Flaherty and Ahrens. Not one boring tune in their varied and professional repertoire. Flaherty is genius, period.

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re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

Posted: 9/13/05 at 5:09pm

1. Finn
2. Steinman
3. Flaherty
4. Menken
5. Larson