Hot Young Writing Teams...

[Theatre1]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:03pm

Any faves out there?

I'm excited about Tim Kitt's new show, "Next to Normal". And "Fugitive Songs"!!! Anyone heard anything about either one?

[BkCollector]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:05pm

Joshua...something has a very eerie and haunting score for The Adding Machine and I just read that he's working on Candida. Very interested.

one for the list of NOT hot writing teams is Pasek and Paul, really amateurish.

[DrTheatre]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:10pm

Who is Tim Kitt? I know of a TOM Kitt! Are they two different people?

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:11pm

BK, I don't know what you have against Pasek and Paul, but you bring them up bizarrely often.

Pasek & Paul, Salzman & Cunningham, Ryan Scott Oliver & Kirsten Guenther, Thomson & Mann, Thomas Newman, Gaby Alter and Mark Allen, Danny Larsen, Iconis & Maddock, Bobby Cronin...

I have a thing for young composers...

[Theatre1]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:12pm

Yes, I meant Tom Kitt...

[Theatre1]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:13pm

I see that... have you heard any of the stuff from FUGITIVE SONGS? It's this new show by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen. So far everything I've heard is amazing!!!

[DrTheatre]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:15pm

Where can you hear samples of FUGITIVE SONGS?

[Theatre1]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:27pm

check out their myspace page - that's where I found them...

www.myspace.com/millerandtysen

I think they might have a space on facebook too... I also got a rough recording of the closed reading they had in January with a few more of the songs. Check it out! "Passing Tracy" and "Patty and Dede" are both from the show.

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 3:18pm

Pasek and Paul

[acrocksyo]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 3:26pm

I really like what I have heard from Kerrigan and Lowdermilk. Wish they would have a show produced in NYC sometime in the near future!

[Nick Plasia]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 11:48pm

Pasek and Paul are so terrible. But they
slept with Stephen Schwartz, so go figure...

[jennyish]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 11:54pm

I think Kerrigan and Lowdermilk, while they haven't hit their stride yet, have serious potential.

Pasek and Paul, on the other hand, bore me to death. All of their songs feel practically the same to me--they're so formulaic.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:00am

Pasek and Paul had a three-way with the stright Schwartz???
That would make a good musical.
This thread is full of teams I never heard of.
If Kander and Ebb don't get THE VISIT on Broadway, they can all slit there wrists right now.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:38am

Miller and Tysen are okay.

both TRUE FANS and FUGITIVE SONGS were a complete wash, though! they haven't had much success.

Pasek and Paul's EDGES is heading to off-broadway next season and one of their musicals is being commissioned by Lincoln Center!

So exciting.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:46am

David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger wrote a few great tunes in CRY-BABY.

Hopefully we will hear more from them soon.

[Nick Plasia]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 11:00am

Schwartz is straight? Ha ha ha ha!

[playbills]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:30pm

My favorites have to be Kerrigan and Lowdermilk. I adore their stuff from The Unauthorized Biography of Samantha Brown (especially "Run Away With Me") and their new work for Tales from the Bad Years

[SgtDonut]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:53pm

Lin Manuel Miranda and his cru.

[mr.scribble]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:47pm

you gotta mention Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen for [title of show]

[musicalman2]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 6:19pm

watch for a new young composer named Dan Kazmi as well. Works out of Philly. Fantastic.

[clarkstallings]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 6:25pm

Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I can't think of a single young team out there that writes at the level of more established composers and lyricists. I hear so much sameness, so many trite lyrics, that even though I'm an optimist, it's a bit distressing that this could be the future of musical theatre.

[dramarama2]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 8:03pm

Jamail & Fergussion

<3<3<3<3<3

http://www.votethemusical.com

[bjh2114]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 8:10pm

I second Salzman and Cunningham.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 8:12pm

I need to throw in with the "Kerrigan and Lowdermilk" group. I was at their "Tales from the Bad Years" concert in May and thought what I heard was top notch.

[TannerONbw]

Posted: 10/7/08 at 5:03pm

Hey Ya'll I did a search and couldn't find a better thread to post this in but i figured i would add it in here instead of starting a thread devoted to it. This is a song by Pasek and Paul called Do you remember? sung by Gavin Creel. It is amazing. I hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgupoQGt1c&feature=related