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#26

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/12/08 at 11:22pm

Marvin Hamlisch
Jason Robert Brown
Adam Guettel
Stephen Sondheim
Craig Carnelia
Andrew Lippa
Mark Hollman/ Greg Kotis
Richard Maltby Jr./ David Shire
William Finn
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#27

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/13/08 at 12:01am

Sondheim
LaChiusa
Duncan Sheik (the lyrics in Spring Awakening may be disjointed, iffy and ambiguous, but Sheiks score is amazing)
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#28

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/13/08 at 12:09am

I'd like to hear another Lucy Simon score.

But of course.. how could any true lover of musical theatre NOT want to hear a new Sondheim score?
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#30

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/13/08 at 2:01am

C'mon, the winner is clearly Sondheim. How could you ever go wrong?

Wait...scratch that. Make that Sondheim, pre-Bounce.

I wouldn't mind seeing Ahrens & Flaherty return to composing something for the great white way either...

Updated On: 2/13/08 at 02:01 AM

#32

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/13/08 at 2:22am

not Jerry Herman, he's a hack.

Sondheim needs to do one last show - but not "Bounce" - maybe a full stage version of "Evening Primrose"

Kander & Ebb can come back one more time with "The Visit" - PLEASE!!!!

Guettel and Robert Brown need to come back.

Can Ian Gordon finally make it to Broadway?
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#33

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/13/08 at 3:36am

Strouse with "Marty"
Kander(&Ebb) with "The Visit"
Cy Coleman with "Ostrovsky"
Sondheim with whatever (I even liked Bounce, the score was enjoyable)
Hamlish had been mentioned, yes
Jerry Herman (though I doubt he'll do another show and Miss Spectacular wasn't exactly a dramatized work)
Schmidt & Jones (though Harvey Schmidt would have to withdraw from his retired life)
Maury Yeston (he hasn't had a show since Titanic)
Marc Shaiman (of course with Catch me if you can, which is a highly enjoyable score)
Flaherty & Ahrens, yes, but they'll come anyway with their "Rocky" adaption. Which sounds somewhat ... to me.

I'm a little reluctant about JR Brown since I wasn't exactly in awe of what I listened of his new shows that head to Broadway. But of course I would go see his shows as well, he's generally a talented composer.
#36

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/13/08 at 10:13am

I would love to see Charles Strouse with one more big fat Broadway hit. Even when some of his shows failed, there was always something to admire in his music.
#38

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/13/08 at 10:59am

Charles Strouse and Lee Adams with It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman! I saw the concert version with Cheyenne Jackson and Shoshana Bean and I loved it! And with the proper staging it could be amazing!

And Sondheim, pre-Bounce!
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#44

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 2/13/08 at 5:45pm

Jonathan Larson.

'Cause we all know how likely that is.
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#46

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:16pm

I could've sworn I heard that Jerry Herman vowed never to write another Broadway show after La Cage. I forget if it was just a rumour though, does anyone know?
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#48

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 4/7/08 at 11:51pm

Jerry Herman, definitely (and the guy who said he's a hack... well, how do you even respond to such dumbarsery?)

Yeston is a yes!

JRB for sure. His best work is still ahead of him.

Oh, and Frank Wildhorn should NOT be allowed anywhere NEAR Broadway, ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever again. Ever.
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#50

re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway

Posted: 4/8/08 at 12:45am

Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick are both still alive and kicking and should be doing another show. I had such hopes when they wrote that new song for the revival of "Fiddler".

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