What if a different composer did your favorite/least favorite show...?

Okay, wierd thought crossed my mind earlier today, so I was thinking about these few things:

1. Name a show that you may or may not like, but that you'd like to see a different composer doing the lyrics. i.e.: Adam Guettel doing Yeston's "Titanic" or Jonathon Larson doing "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", which are my picks.

2. Name your favorite show, and who you think would have done the worst job with composing. For me, the show is "Parade", and I'd have to say William Finn. I love "A New Brain" and what I've heard of "Falsettos", but the story and his style just clash something fierce.

Respond with your picks to these two ideas.

Guettel doing Titanic could be very interesting....

I'd love to see Sondheim write In My Life....he could make it really dark.

I was listening to Piazza (one of my favorite shows) a few weeks ago and thought about what it would sound like if Yeston (one of my favorite composers) had written it.

I, like everyone else, would've loved to hear Sondheim's take on Wicked.

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Um - Yeston doing Piazza -- wouldn't it just sound like Nine?

How about Frank Loesser writing Hair if you want something different!

"I've never done this drug before
Now all at once I'm high
I'm floating off the floor

I've never done this drug before
I thought the air was safe
I thought I'd smoke some more

But this high, is all too strange and strong
I'll smoke another bong
I can't resist the lure.

So please forgive the hazy mood I'm in
I've really never been
This high before."

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You shouldn't have to wonder what it would have been like - it would have been brilliant, of course


I tried to think of a show that I think has potential, but was in the complete wrong hands...so my choice is Sondheim writing AMOUR.

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how bout Sondheim doing every show ever written?

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...How about Jerry Herman's "Hair?"

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1. I definitely would have loved to see Sondheim do Wicked.

2. I can't pick a favorite show:
Stephen Schwartz doing West Side Story or Sweeney Todd

Rodgers and Hammerstein doing Rent