Favorite Broadway composers NOT born on March 22nd

[CastAlbumFan]

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?

[ashley0139]

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.

[meagan9848]

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.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

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

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

[Pippin]

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

Guettal, Gershwin, Flaherty, and Bock

[little_sally]

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

Jason Robert Brown and Maury Yeston

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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.

[gavrochegirl]

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

Ahem.

JASON ROBERT BROWN.

The end!

[Unknown User]

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

Adam Guettel

[ThE nEw KiD]

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]

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

I also like Boubil and Schonberg and Kander and Ebb.

[frontrowcentre2]

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

[RentBoy86]

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

Jonathan Larson - duh!

[Jon]

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

[Composer9]

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

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

[Urban]

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

Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty

[JBSinger]

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.

[freeadmission]

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

[buffyactsing]

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

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

[xM3L24x]

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

Jonathan Larson

[RaininSmilies]

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

Jason Robert Brown!

[timote316]

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

Kander & Ebb
Cy Coleman
Jonathan Larson
Alan Menken

[SayWhyNot]

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.

[dotvmike]

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

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