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What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
#25re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 5:19amDianne Warren writes very beautiful music.
#26re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 5:49am
Yes; if only it had been your second post I was replying to. 
#27re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 12:13pmSara Bareilles.
#28re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 12:13pmSara Bareilles.
#29re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 12:21pmNellie McKay
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#30re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 12:25pm
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#31re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 12:59pm
During her last concert at Joe's Pub there was a running gag of how Nellie McKay had been approached to make a musical out of the movie Election. She played several songs from it that were totally bizarre. Pretty sure it was just a joke though, although with her you never know.
I second Aimee Mann.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#32re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 1:03pm
Billy Joel, perhaps.
I know Movin' Out was done with his songs, so it might be weird to have another musicals with his songs that the actors actually sing, but I'm talking about a new score not using his original music.
#33re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 1:09pm
Danny Elfman is writing a musical. He's working on "Houdini" which, I think, is a great vehicle for him.
They didn't write all of their own stuff but I've been wondering for quite some time how a musical using the music of the Carpenters would work. I don't know if it would be best to do it as their biography ala "Jersey Boys" or have a totally different plot like "Mamma Mia" or "All Shook Up."
I'd like to, also, throw Michael Buble out there. The original stuff he has written and co-written has been really good. I love "Home" and "Lost".
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#34re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 1:14pmBilly Joel should take his "Italian Restaurant" idea and make it a show. Different patrons in different time periods visiting the restaurant (like the French movie Le Bal).
#35re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 1:19pm
"Billy Joel should take his "Italian Restaurant" idea and make it a show. Different patrons in different time periods visiting the restaurant (like the French movie Le Bal)."
I think "Piano Man" could work as a show also. Maybe even "Goodnight Saigon" but that show would probably end up being too close to "Miss Saigon".
#36re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:18pmJohn Ondrasik
#37re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:28pmCyndi Lauper
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Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#38re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:41pm
James Taylor contributed to Schwartz' "Working"
I 2nd or 3rd the idea of Billy Joel writing music for a musical. And Kate Bush. Vienna Teng might be interesting.
#39re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:42pmThe boys of Tenacious D.
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