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Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 12:07am

Sorry if this has been recently..

you can put them in order, or no order at all.

Sondheim (this is the hardest one for me)

1.Sweeney Todd
2.Into The Woods
3.Company/Passion (can't decide)

Sweeney will always be #1, the others may change though.

Kander & Ebb

1.Chicago
2.Cabaret
3.Kiss Of The Spider Woman

Cy Coleman

1.Sweet Charity
2.City Of Angels
3.The Life

I listed my scores in order for the most part. My #1's will always remain the same.

So what are your top 3 favorite scores from your top 3 favorite composers?

Updated On: 3/5/06 at 12:07 AM

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 12:14am

R & H:
The King and I
Carousel
South Pacific

no R&H:
South Pacific
The Sound of Music
Flower Drum Song

no damn it: R&H
The King and I
Carousel
South Pacific

yeah that one

I'll do Sondheim later

P.S.

Guettal:
Light
Floyd
Hymns

wait
can i change that?

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 12:59am

Sondheim:

1. Sunday in the Park with George
2. Sweeney Todd
3. Into the Woods

Jason Robert Brown:

1. Parade
2. The Last Five Years
3. Songs for a New World

Michael John LaChiusa:
1. The Wild Party
2. Hello Again
3. Marie Christine

-tie-

Adam Guettel:
1. The Light in the Piazza
2. Myths and Hymns
3. Floyd Collins

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:04am

Sondheim:

1. Sweeney Todd
2. Into The Woods
3. Company

Jason Robert Brown:

1. The Last 5 Years
2. Parade
3. Songs for a New World

Michael John LaChiusa:

1. See What I Wanna See
2. Marie Christine
3. The Wild Party

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:09am

Ah, this is too hard. I'll give it a try.

Sondheim
1. Company
2. Sweeney Todd
3. A Little Night Music/Assassins/Follies/Sunday in the Park With George (I know that's stretching it, but seriously, it's like asking me to choose between my children. Which I don't have. But I imagine that's how it would feel.)

Finn
1. The Marvin Trilogy (and if I have to pick one, March of the Falsettos)
2. Elegies: A Song Cycle
3. A New Brain

Porter
1. Anything Goes
2. High Society
3. Gay Divorce/Kiss Me, Kate

And honorable mention to:

Jason Robert Brown
1. Parade
2. The Last Five Years
3. Songs For a New World

LaChiusa
1. Hello Again
2. Marie Christine
3. The Wild Party

Updated On: 3/5/06 at 01:09 AM

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:42am

Adam Guettel
1. Myths and Hymns
2. Floyd Collins
3. Light in the Piazza

Jason Robert Brown
1. Wearing Someone Else's Clothes (okay, so it's kinda cheating)
2. Last Five Years
3. Parade

Jones/Schmidt (unfortunately, I'm only familiar with 3 of their scores)
1. Fantasticks
2. Grover's Corners
3. Celebration

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 2:25am

Sondheim:
Sweeney todd
Passion
Assassins

Jason Robert Brown:
The Last five Years
Parade
Songs for a New World

William Finn:
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
A New Brain
Elegies: A Song Cycle

"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 4:32am

Sondheim:

Follies
Sunday in the Park with George
Sweeney Todd

Rodgers:

Carousel
The King and I
The Sound of Music

Loewe:

Brigadoon
My Fair Lady
Camelot

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re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 8:18am

Claude-Michel Schönberg :

Martin Guerre
Miss Saigon
Les Miserables
(La Révolution Française)

Sondheim :

Passion
Into the Woods
Company

Michel Berger :

Starmania / Tycoon
La Légende de Jimmy

Andrew Lloyd Webber :

Aspects of Love
Sunset BLVD
The Beautiful Game

Elton John ( I know )

Billy Elliot
Aida

Stephen Schwartz :

Pippin
The Baker's Wife
Godspell

Kander & Ebb :

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Chicago
Cabaret

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#10

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 8:21am

Bernstein:

1. West Side Story
2. Candide
3. Peter Pan

Webber:

1. Phantom of the Opera
2. Evita
3. Jesus Christ Superstar

Rodgers:

1. The King and I
2. The Sound of Music
3. Carousel

Honorable mentions:

Loewe

1. My Fair Lady
2. Camelot
3. Brigadoon

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#11

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 10:16am

Stephen Sondheim:
1. Sweeney Todd
2. Assassins
3. Sunday in the Park with George/A Little Night Music

Jason Robert Brown:
1. Parade
2. Songs for a New World
3. The Last 5 Years

John Kander and Fred Ebb:
1. Chicago
2. Cabaret
3. Kiss of the Spider-woman

Talk about a hard question...

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Updated On: 3/5/06 at 10:16 AM

#12

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 10:18am

Kander and Ebb
1. Chicago
2. The Happy Time
3. Steel Pier

Sondheim
1. Follies
2. Company
3. Sweeney Todd

Rodgers (with Hammerstein, Hart and himeself)
1. No Strings
2. Carousel
4. Pal Joey

#13

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:29am

Yes, I love these teriffically "new" and "unique" threads

Charles Strouse:
1) Rags
2) Nick and Nora
3) All American

Stephen Sondheim:
1) A little Night Music
2) Sweeney Todd
3) Follies

Kander/Ebb
1) Cabaret
2) Woman of the Year
3) Kiss of the Spider Woman

in tie with

Cy Coleman
1) Sweet Charity
2) Barnum
3) City of Angels

#14

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/6/06 at 10:39pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber:
1) Jesus Christ Superstar
2) Evita
3) Phantom of the Opera

Jonathan Larson
1) RENT
2) Tick...Tick...BOOM!!

Stephen Schwartz
1) Children of Eden
2) Pippin
3) Wicked

Honorable Mention:

Jason Robert Brown
1) The Last Five Years
2) Parade
3) Songs For A New World

Claude-Michel Schönberg
1) Les Miserables
2) Miss Saigon
3) I have faith 'The Pirate Queen' will be great.

#15

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/7/06 at 1:37am

Sondheim
1.Sweeney Todd
2. Passion
3. A Little Night Music

Kander & Ebb:
Cabaret
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Steel Pier

Jonathan Larson
RENT
tick, tick...Boom!

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -Nocturne

#16

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/7/06 at 1:41am

Hmmm.

Not my top THREE composers. The only ones I can think of now, at 1:39. Though, LaChiusa is TOP TOP.

LaChiusa
-The Wild Party
-Marie Christine
-Bernarda Alba

Sondheim
-Follies
-Sweeney Todd
-Sunday in the Park with George

Andrew Lloyd Webber (why not, right?)
-Jesus Christ Superstar
-Evita
-The Likes of Us

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#17

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/7/06 at 7:51am

This is exactly why I didn't pick Brown or Guettel as my top composers - everyone is going to have the same three shows because they haven't done enough yet to pick otherwise. Doesn't mean they aren't both incredible, just not experienced enough.

Sondheim:
Sweeney
Into the Woods
Follies

R&H
South Pacific
King and I
Carousel

Loesser
Most Happy Fella
Guys and Dolls
H2S

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

#18

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/7/06 at 8:16am

Sondheim:

Sweeney Todd
Into the Woods
Follies

Rodgers & Hammerstein:

Oklahoma!
Cinderella
The Sound of Music

George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin:

Of Thee I Sing
Porgy and Bess
Strike Up the Band

Honorable Mention:

Stephen Schwartz:
Pippin
Godspell
Wicked

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Updated On: 3/7/06 at 08:16 AM

#19

re: Top 3 Favorite Scores From Your Top 3 Favorite Composers?

Posted: 3/7/06 at 9:22am

Gee this is hard because my favorites go in cycles..at one time it was Wildhorn, Boublil/Schonberg, and Lloyd Webber--then one year later it was Brown, LaChiusa, and Guettel...hmmmm

Well here goes:

Kander and Ebb
(1) Cabaret
(2) Kiss of the Spiderwoman
(3) Chicago

Jason Robert Brown
(1) Parade
(2) The Last 5 Years
(3) Songs for a New World

Adam Guettel
(1) Myths and Hymns
(2) The Light in the Piazza
(3) Floyd Collins

Honorable Mentions (and could be in top 3 tomorrow-who knows!)

Jule Styne
(1) Gypsy
(2) Bells are Ringing
(3) Subways are for Sleeping

Frank Wildhorn
(1) Jekyll and Hyde
(2) Scarlet Pimpernel

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