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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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#30re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 12:25pm
Maria McKee
Kate Bush
Ben Folds
Thomas Newman
Nick Cave
Nellie McKay
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#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.
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#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.
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#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".
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Updated On: 6/9/08 at 01:09 PM
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#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).
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#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".
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#36re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:18pmJohn Ondrasik
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#37re: What Non-Musical Songwriter Should Write A Musical?
Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:28pmCyndi Lauper
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#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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