Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer

[Forester]

Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#0

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:31am

Since we have one for composers, list your favorite lyricist/book writers.

For me, Tim Rice

[phantom_tenor]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#1

Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:00am

stephen sondheim, tim rice, w.s. gilbert, larry hart

[Pinguin]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#2

Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:33am

I love Sondheim as a lyricist of course, and I like Lapine as a book writer...

-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?

"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????

[bwaybound865]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#3

Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:52am

I love RENT so I have to say Johnathan Larson!!

[MasterLcZ]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#4

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:36am

A hip-hooray for Peter Mills - the best lyricist you're never heard of (and one I had never heard of till I saw THE PURSUIT OF PERSEPHONE) plus a cheer for Mark Campbell, lyricist for SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED.

Peter Mills

"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

Updated On: 5/30/05 at 10:36 AM

[melissa errico fan]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#5

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:40am

FAVORITE LYRICISTS
Stephen Sondheim
WS Gilbert
Michael John LaChiusa
Adam Guettel
Jason Robert Brown

FAVORITE BOOKWRITERS
James Lapine
George Furth
Terrence McNally
Richard Nelson
Arthur Laurents
Updated On: 5/30/05 at 10:40 AM

[jim coleman]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#6

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:43am

What about Oscar Hammerstein and Arthur Laurents. They were responsible for:
OKLAHOMA
CAROUSEL
THE KING AND I
SOUTH PACIFIC
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
FLOWER DRUM SONG
GYPSY
WEST SIDE STORY

BatonMan

[GYPSY1527]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#7

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:56am

Lyricists:
Sondheim
Lynn Ahrens

Bookwriters:
Terrrance McNally
Arthur Laurents
James Lapine

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

[jasonf]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#8

Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:02am

Lyricists: Sondheim (can we take that as a given?)
Jason Robert Brown
David Zippel (City of Angels is brilliant)
William Finn
Frank Loesser

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[gavrochegirl]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#9

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:25pm

Sondheim with a captial S.

What the puck?!

[phantom_tenor]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#10

Posted: 6/1/05 at 5:13am

"What about Oscar Hammerstein and Arthur Laurents. They were responsible for:
OKLAHOMA
CAROUSEL
THE KING AND I
SOUTH PACIFIC
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
FLOWER DRUM SONG
GYPSY
WEST SIDE STORY "


West Side Story was Sondheim, and wasn't gypsy as well? Or did Oscar Hammerstein and Arthur Laurents do the book?

[phantom_tenor]

re: Favorite Lyricist/Book Writer#11

Posted: 6/1/05 at 5:13am

"What about Oscar Hammerstein and Arthur Laurents. They were responsible for:
OKLAHOMA
CAROUSEL
THE KING AND I
SOUTH PACIFIC
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
FLOWER DRUM SONG
GYPSY
WEST SIDE STORY "


West Side Story was Sondheim, and wasn't gypsy as well? Or did Oscar Hammerstein and Arthur Laurents do the book?