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What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
#25re: 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
#26re: 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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#27re: 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?
#28re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 12:15am
-SONDHEIM
-Benny Anderson
-Shonberg and Bublil (sp?) please give us something other than Pirate Queen
-PUKE if JRBrown makes it to Broadway. I will not be in attendance
goldenstate5
Featured Actor Joined: 5/8/06
#29re: 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
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#30re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 2:11amKander & Ebb. It still kills me that this can never happen again.
#31re: 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?
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#32re: 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.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#33re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 4:15amMarvin Hamlisch , PLEASEEEE
Theatreboy33
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#34re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:56amJerry Herman's a hack? Then you, dfwtheatreguy, are a moron.
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#35re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 10:13amI 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.
#36re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 10:36amJoe Raposo (unfortunately, he's no longer with us, but I would love to see a Raggedy Ann revival)
#37re: 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!
#38re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 11:01am
Maury Yeston.
J*
#39re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 11:10amI cant believe nobody has yet said the great Jeanine Tesori
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#40re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 11:15am
I just got my wish, Jeanine Tesori!
There you go Horton.
PUPPETMAN
Understudy Joined: 12/28/07
#41re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 12:43pm
Definitely JERRY HERMAN
Frank Wildhorn
Keep Sondheim as far from Broadway as possible. The ONLY decent score was Little Night Music
#42re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 5:42pmMaury Yeston & David Yazbek...and Charles Strouse (w/ Lee Adams)!
#43re: 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.
NDR
Leading Actor Joined: 11/16/06
#45re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 6:45pm
Ahrens & Flaherty
Boublil & Schonberg
#46re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:16pmI 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?
#47re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:50pm
Jason Robert Brown
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
#48re: 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.
puppetman2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/2/08
#49re: What Composer Do You Want To See Return To Broadway
Posted: 4/8/08 at 12:20am
Jerry Herman
Schmidt & Jones (The Fantasticks duo)
#50re: 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".
Rupert Holmes
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