Lets solve a mystery!

[Unknown User]

Lets solve a mystery!#1

Posted: 10/3/13 at 1:52pm

From the Blind Gossip website:

Which Tony Award-winning composer didn’t actually write all of their own music?

We’ve learned that a Tony Award-winning composer, who received rave reviews for writing a major Broadway hit, didn’t actually do all the work themselves!

The musical was actually put together by a ghost writer and no one knows.

Tricky, tricky!

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[jv92]

Lets solve a mystery!#2

Posted: 10/3/13 at 1:56pm

Cyndi Lauper

KINKY BOOTS

"Sex is in the Heel" or "The History of Wrong Guys"

It very well could be Mel Brooks but he has acknowledged Glenn Kelly and Doug Besterman as major aids and contributors. Lauper hasn't completely ignored Stephen Oremus, but there hasn't been much word on her "composing process." Brooks admits he hums his songs into a tape recorder/phone/whatever.

[Liza's Headband]

Lets solve a mystery!#2

Posted: 10/3/13 at 1:59pm

I thought it was a pretty well known fact that as a ghost writer/music arranger/music producer, Oremus made the scores of both 9 TO 5 and KINKY BOOTS into what they are today.

[Unknown User]

Lets solve a mystery!#3

Posted: 10/3/13 at 1:59pm

I wonder about that- Cyndi Lauper has been writing music for 40 years. Why does she need a ghost all of a sudden?

[jonartdesigns]

Lets solve a mystery!#4

Posted: 10/3/13 at 2:06pm

Isn't there a persistant rumor that Jonathan Larson is the actual author of "Children Will Listen"?

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[Liza's Headband]

Lets solve a mystery!#5

Posted: 10/3/13 at 2:06pm

For the same reason Dolly Parton, also a songwriter of 40+ years, needed Stephen. Writing for pop/radio is much different than writing for the theatrical stage.

Anyway, I'm just assuming they are talking about Lauper because of the Oremus connection. I do know that Dolly has wholly credited him for the final version of the 9 TO 5 score. She discusses it in some kind of interview that was posted here last year..

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Lets solve a mystery!#6

Posted: 10/3/13 at 2:07pm

Isn't there a persistent rumor that Jonathan Larson is the actual author of "Children Will Listen"?

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[tazber]

Lets solve a mystery!#7

Posted: 10/3/13 at 4:10pm

From the comments:

Cyndi Lauper for Kinky Boots I presume, as it’s gender neutral and using she would be so much of a dead giveaway. Lauper was ‘feat’ on a song by Tricky.

That’s a shame, wiki says she was the first woman to win solo for that category.

The song – ‘Five Days’ by Tricky featuring Cyndi

....but the world goes 'round

[CATSNYrevival]

Lets solve a mystery!#8

Posted: 10/3/13 at 4:35pm

Isn't this sort of common and why there's a Tony award for orchestrations? The orchestrator turns the simple melodies into a score. That's not some big secret.

[darquegk]

Lets solve a mystery!#9

Posted: 10/3/13 at 4:56pm

Required listening for this topic should be Elton John's demo and concept recording for AIDA. Good example of the way a well structured song must still be reimagined to work as a stage song, while still functioning as the same song.

[Liza's Headband]

Lets solve a mystery!#10

Posted: 10/3/13 at 5:04pm

Much more than just orchestrations, CATS. We're not talking about the superficial sound of a score; we're talking about the real bones of a composition. Someone who takes a basic idea or composition and then arranges and produces it into a fully fledged song for the stage.

[KirbyCat]

Lets solve a mystery!#11

Posted: 10/3/13 at 5:35pm

What about Mel Brooks and The Producers (and Young Frankenstein)? I remember reading that he just hummed tunes into a tape recorder and Doug Besterman worked his magic.

[darquegk]

Lets solve a mystery!#12

Posted: 10/3/13 at 5:38pm

The sME story applies to Irving Berlin, that he would plunk melodies in C on all the white keys of the keyboard, and then someone else would turn his melodies into more structured and workable songs and melodies, especially by adding in the black notes.

[Unknown User]

Lets solve a mystery!#13

Posted: 10/3/13 at 5:45pm

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are also Tony-Award winning Broadway composers.