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Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#25re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:27pmSonheim, Tesori, Bernstein, Jason Robert Brown...off the top of my head
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#26re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:51pm
Sondheim towers above the others for me... but also on the list, I'd have to add -
Porter
William Finn
Jason Robert Brown
Menken
Flaherty
Gershwin
"Not a day goes by..."
Therese
Broadway Star Joined: 1/2/05
#27re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:55pm
Hmm, am I the first to add Frank Loesser in here? Not only for "Guys and Dolls," but a few years ago I saw "The Most Happy Fella" for the first time. I went in knowing fairly little about it, and was surprised how much I enjoyed it.
If I only get one, though, I think I almost have to go with Richard Rodgers; I have a CD of R&H overtures, and the wealth of beautiful melodies, even from the lesser-known scores, is overwhelming.
"In my own little corner..."
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#28re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:59pm
my ultimate favorites are ahrens and flaherty..
i also really love william finn and obviously sondheim.
my other group is boublil and schoenberg.
but ahrens and flaherty are my favorites. i could listen to once on this island, ragtime, a man of no importance and dessa rose all day!
Updated On: 5/16/05 at 10:59 PM
#29re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:59pm
Cy Coleman is first on the list.
From Sweet Charity to City of Angels to Will Rogers Follies to The Life, and all the shows and jazz hits in between...The best was always yet to come!
He was always partnered with incredible lyricists as well...
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
Theatre1
Chorus Member Joined: 4/11/05
#30re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 11:07pm
Hey Everyone..... come out to see Ricky Ian Gordon on Monday May 30th at 9pm at OPIA. Ricky is one of my favorite composers, and he's agreed to do this show for our company.
Visit www.lonelysky.org for more info about the show.
Michael Arden is just one of many performing in the show, and it's going to be great.
The concert is a benefit for Lonely Sky Theatre Company, a new theatre dedicated to producing contempoary musical theatre. This is a worthwhile cause, I think, and a show worth seeing.
Hope to see lots of you there. And please come up and say hello. I'll introduce you to Ricky, and I'd be happy to talk to you more about what we're doing with musical theatre!!!!
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#31re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 11:28pmLeonard Bernstein--genius!
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#32re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 11:32pmFlaherty, Larson, JRB, and Sondheim.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
futurewinnerbud
Understudy Joined: 2/23/04
#33re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 11:39pm
David Yazbeck
Stephen Schwatrz
Alan Menkein
Jason Robert Brown
Stepehn Flaherty
Jazzysuite82
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/6/05
#35re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/17/05 at 12:28amwell Sondheim is a given. I mean come on. But out of the new guys, the ones I admire most are Michael John LaChiusa. I wish I could get my hands on more of his music. I LOOOOOVE his stuff. I'd work for free to do one of his shows. In a close second comes Adam Guettel. He got much closer with Piazza. He's breathtaking. I envy freakin Audra McDonald so much!
phantom_tenor
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
#36re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 6:45am
Puccini
Bernstein
Sondheim
Webber (earlier to mid)
Akbar-n-Jeff
Understudy Joined: 8/22/04
#37re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 7:02am
Harold Arlen, whose centennial this year is already yesterdays news 
"If you really loved me, you'd enjoy my cold, joyless gloom."
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#38re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 9:19amCharles Strouse. Masterfully melodic indeed.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#39re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 9:32am
Classical - Beethoven
Musical theatre - Richard Rogers
Pop - Elton John
#40re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 9:37am
(not in order)
Maury Yeston
Jason Robert Brown
and Stephen Sondheim (of course)
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
romanov
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/05
#41re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 9:48amKander and Ebb. I even liked The Rink.
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#43re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 9:50am
Webber, but only most of the time (and not recently)
and Alan Menkin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre
cserannie
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
#44re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 12:37pmStephen Schwartz and Cole Porter
Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."
#45re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 12:44pmKander & Ebb; Cole Porter
Not today, Geraldine.
november
Featured Actor Joined: 5/17/05
#46re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 12:58pmHands Down Sondheim Ever since Company Jane Russell was in it WOW telling my age now
#47re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 1:09pm
Well, I know i'm not being very original.... But Stephen Sondheim has GOT to be number 1. He is a genius.
I also enjoy Jule Styne, Leonard Bernstein, Kander & Ebb and Richard Rodgers' work very much.
"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "
#48re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 1:17pmStephen Schwartz definetly... Tim Rice? I guess he doesn't compose but that would be cool too
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.
#49re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/18/05 at 1:22pm
First Stephen Schwartz
After: Jason Robert Brown, Craig Carnelia and Alan Menken.
From the past: Cole Porter
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