Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
HopeChanged
Stand-by Joined: 10/2/10
#1Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 6:42pm
I am familiar with many older musicals, but – having just discovered the music of “Next to Normal” and fallen in love with it – I want to find whatever else exists in terms of gorgeous contemporary Broadway music. Which musical scores do you find most beautiful/moving/goosebump-inducing? Ones you can’t imagine living without?
#2Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 6:47pmRagtime, Parade, The Light in the Piazza, Caroline or Change
#2Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 6:49pmYa know, I looked at the title of this thread, and the first thought in my head was NEXT TO NORMAL
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#3Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 6:54pmSpring Awakening and The Last Five Years
#4Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 6:57pmBilly Elliot and Spring Awakening
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#5Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 7:01pm
Oh, does Miss Saigon count?
Sunset Boulevard too.
And I know it's not Broadway (yet) but Love Never Dies.
#6Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 7:17pmRagtime, Piazza, Grey Gardens
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#7Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 7:19pm
Miss Saigon
A New Brain
Parade
Rent
Caroline, or Change
The Secret Garden
Titanic
Ragtime
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Passion
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Sunset Boulevard
Tommy
Jane Eyre
Once On This Island
A Christmas Carol
The Light in the Piazza
Billy Elliot
Marie Christine
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Wicked
Bombay Dreams
The Pirate Queen
Zorro (London)
In the Heights
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#8Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 7:33pm
Wicked
Hairspray
Rent
Young Frankenstein (in SOME places)
Piazza
Maybe "catchy" can substitute for "beautiful"
#9Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 8:31pmPiazza. Period.
garyl
Understudy Joined: 7/12/07
#10Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 8:38pmGrey Gardens period
madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
#11Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:06pmTwo Michel Legrand scores: Amour (Broadway) and Marguerite (London).
#12Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:16pm
My top 3:
1. next to normal
2. Rent
3. Spring Awakening
#13Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:19pm
I agree with the PIazza, Ragtime and Grey Gardens trio.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#14Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:31pmI think that the scores of "Titanic," "Side Show," "Steel Pier," and "The Dead" (unfortunately not recorded) were quite good. And I know I'm in the minority in liking "Whistle Down the Wind." (This is probably the only score of the last 20 years I actually listen to!) "Hairspray," "Spamalot," and "Altar Boyz" were also fun.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#15Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:38pmSecret Garden.
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#16Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:56pm
Ragtime
Parade
The Light in the Piazza
Grey Gardens
The Secret Garden
Titanic
Passion
Sunset Boulevard
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#17Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 10:37pmAdding to the love of Piazza, Grey Gardens, and Ragtime. It's such a shame that none of those shows won the Tonys for Best Musical in their respective years. Passion also has such a beautiful score. I have to round out my top five with Songs For a New World.
#18Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 11:02pm
[Title of Show]
Everyday Rapture (both on stage and the Cast Album, although it seems very out of place)
Gypsy
Les Miserables (only the actual 'named' songs. not the sung dialouge in between - I don't know the actual music term for that...aria?...just made a fool of myself sayin that! haha)
Little Shop Of Horrors
Sister Act - Soon-to-be-Broadway!
Sweeney Todd
The Producers
Wicked
but my all time favourite score, ever is The Lord Of The Rings Musical, even if it is for the one song " Wonder". It did very well in the West End but i think it flopped on Broadway (didn't research that, don't quote me!)
grandpianoalex
Stand-by Joined: 2/15/10
#19Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 11:55pm
^past 20 years. lol.
I don't think Gypsy, Little Shop, Sweeney Todd, and Les Miserables make the cut.
#20Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/7/10 at 11:57pmThe Last Five Years.
"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite
#21Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/8/10 at 12:14amThe overture of Piazza alone wins this prize...
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#22Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/8/10 at 12:20am
Umm , no, Lord of the Rings never had to go as far as Broadway to flop. It died in Toronto and had a quasi resurection on the West End.
Agree w Parade and Assasins and most of Grey Gardens
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#23Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/8/10 at 2:00amTitanic for sure
#24Most beautiful musical scores composed within past 20 years
Posted: 10/8/10 at 12:01pmI agree about Piazza and Ragtime, in that order. everythingISpossible, you are so, so right about the overture of Piazza. Absolutely gorgeous.
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