Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
#0Favorite 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?
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#1re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/12/05 at 9:21pmMost 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.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#2re: 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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#3re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/12/05 at 9:56pmJASON ROBERT BROWN. Hands down without a doubt in my mind. Yazbeck is my second favorite.
#4re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:07pmGuettal, Gershwin, Flaherty, and Bock
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#5re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:10pmJason Robert Brown and Maury Yeston
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#6re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:12pmI 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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gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#7re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/12/05 at 10:17pm
Ahem.
JASON ROBERT BROWN.
The end!
What the puck?!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: 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.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#10re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/12/05 at 11:03pmI also like Boubil and Schonberg and Kander and Ebb.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#11re: 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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RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#12re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/13/05 at 1:34amJonathan Larson - duh!
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#13re: 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
#14re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:27amBernstein, Styne, Rodgers, Guettel, Herman, Porter, GOD, it's so hard not to say Sondheim!!
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
~Leonard Bernstein~
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#15re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:09amLynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
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Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/04
#16re: 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.
#17re: 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
#18re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/13/05 at 12:45pmSpeaking strictly musically: Rodgers, Flattery, Bernstein & La Chuisa
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RaininSmilies
Featured Actor Joined: 3/31/05
#20re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:58pmJason Robert Brown!
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#21re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/13/05 at 5:04pm
Kander & Ebb
Cy Coleman
Jonathan Larson
Alan Menken
SayWhyNot
Swing Joined: 9/4/05
#22re: Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd
Posted: 9/13/05 at 5:07pmI'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.
#23re: 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
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