Most exciting season for best score/ new musicals?

[dexter3]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 10:58am

This season we have new musicals slated to open by Ahrens/Flaherty, Andrew Lippa, Jason Robert Brown, and Yorkey/Kitt. That would make the most nail-biting "best score" category I can remember!

Has there ever been 4 scores by such well known writers in recent history? We've had some pretty horrid years where incidental scores were nominated, due to lack of new scores.

I'm pretty excited for this season.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 11:09am

I thought the 2010-2011 year was a pretty darn good year for new scores.

[newintown]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 11:16am

I think there have been many years when there were at least 4 new scores by terrific writers (some of them flopped, but I imagine some of this year's will flop as well). You say "recent history," which is relative, and I may not think highly of some of these examples, but it can't be denied they all have had some kind of success...:

2010: Five - Women On The Verge (Yazbek), Scottsboro Boys (Kander/Ebb), Book of Mormon (Lopez/Parker/Stone), Catch Me If You Can (Shaiman/Witman), Sister Act (Menken)

2008: Four - 13 (Brown), Billy Elliot (Elton J), Shrek (Tesori), 9 to 5 (Parton)

2006: Four - Grey Gardens (Korie/Frankel), Fame Becomes Me (Shaiman/Witman), Curtains (Kander/Ebb), Pirate Queen (Boublil/Schoenberg)

2004: Six - Caroline Or Change (Tesori/Kushner), The Frogs (Sondheim), Dracula (Wildhorn), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Yazbek), Spamalot (Idle), Light In The Piazza (Guettel)

And so on, and so forth.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 11:20am

2010 was a great year for new scores.

And 2006 also had Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins (partial), and Spring Awakening.