New Generation of Composers/Lyricists

Hey everyone... we all know about JRB, Lippa, LaChiusa, Kitt, etc etc... but there's a whole generation beyond those guys that are doing some incredible work. Just came across the music of Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen - it's incredible!! At the fear of sounding cheesy, I can honestly say that these guys are the future of musical theatre. Check out their their music at myspace.com/millerandtysen

Who are some other writing teams out there? J. Oconer Navarro? Pete Mills? Peter Foley? Brian Lowdermilk? I'm sure there are many more... anxious to hear some feedback!!

Aw, Peter Foley!

Pasek and Paul, too.

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Steven Jamail and Ryann Ferguson. Saw Byzantium at Fringe in 2005... weird production, but great score.
Also saw a workshop of Clarissa, which was awesome.
Newest thing, VOTE!, apparently is super well funded and getting a lot of interest.
www.votethemusical.com

Jeff Bowen

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Updated On: 12/17/07 at 01:34 PM

http://www.kerrigan-lowdermilk.com/

Some really good stuff.

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http://www.votethemusical.com

Kerrigan & Lowdermilk are okay. You should look up Our Lady J. She's amazing.

Scott Alan.

Pasek and Paul are pretty bad--I walked out of
their show in Albany.

And who really hears any of this new theatre music? HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL and HANNAH MONTANA are going silver platinum because they target a specific market. Broadway has championed a generation of rather listless,generic composer/lyricists. Funny enough, the commerical viablity of a Broadway score has all but disappeared. Ask a real record producer in Nashville or L.A.if he/she is familiar with Andrew Lippa or Peter Mills. This music has nothing to do with what is happening in the amazing techno revolution of digital music and does nothing to attract new listeners. And very sadly, there is less and less interest in the product. At least Alan Menken and Elton John undertand the concept of constructed "SONG", with an actual hook. It's all very sad. No wonder Disney so easily cornered the marketplace.

Ricky. Ian. Gordon.

seriously that man makes me so happy. His music is brilliant and so beautiful.

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I ABHOR Ricky Ian Gordon's work.

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Yes...I love shilling my own music...


www.myspace.com/falsetto1900

Our only collaboration song is "Room To Grow." The rest I wrote alone

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