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#1

Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 10:37pm

So, who are they?

Mine are:

Schonberg (with Boublil, of course)
Yazbek
Wildhorn
Kander (and Ebb- combo)
Bock
Herman

I am tired now, and can't think....

EDIT: Wow, I must be tired:

....Sondheim




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Updated On: 3/24/05 at 10:37 PM

#2

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 10:42pm

Sondheim
Finn
Jason Robert Brown
Kander and Ebb
Porter
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#3

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 10:43pm

Like your list a whole lot

Add to it Galt McDermot - more to follow
Poster Emeritus
#4

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 10:43pm

Sondheim
Kander and Ebb
JRB
Michael John LaChiusa
William Finn
Ahrens and Flaherty
Guettel
Ricky Ian Gordon
Cole Porter
#5

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 10:45pm

Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown
Maury Yeston
William Finn
Aherns and Flaherty
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

Updated On: 3/25/05 at 10:45 PM

#8

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 10:48pm

Pretty much everything they've ever written:

Stephen Sondheim (except THE FROGS, BOUNCE, and FORUM)
Maury Yeston
Jason Robert Brown
Michael John LaChiusa
Richard Rodgers
Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Cole Porter
John Kander


Only select shows:

Charles Strouse (BYE BYE BIRDIE, ANNIE)
Sherman Edwards (1776)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (CATS, SUNSET BOULEVARD, SONG AND DANCE)
Meredith Willson (THE MUSIC MAN)
Frederick Loewe (BRIGADOON, MY FAIR LADY, CAMELOT)
Galt McDermot (HAIR)
Frank Loesser (HOW TO SUCCEED...)
Jule Styne (PAL JOEY, GNTLMN PREFER BLONDES, GYPSY, BELLS ARE RINGING, FUNNY GIRL.)


Only a few songs:

Frank Wildhorn (from THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL)
Jerry Herman (from HELLO, DOLLY! and MAME)
Andrew Lippa
Jeanine Tesori
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

Updated On: 3/24/05 at 10:48 PM

#9

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 10:48pm

Gershwin
Porter
Bernstein
Rodgers
Sondheim
Tesori
JRB
LaChiusa
Finn
Flaherty
...Handel

Updated On: 3/24/05 at 10:48 PM

#10

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 10:50pm

Sondheim
JRB
Lippa
Schonberg and Boublil
Wildhorn
#11

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:01pm

jason robert brown, sondhiem, rogers & hammerstein, frank loesser, cole porter, george gershwin...yeah pretty much everything everyones already said
life is PANDEMONIUM.
#12

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:07pm

Why not change this thread topic to 'List Anyone Who Has Ever Composed A Broadway Musical.'
#13

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:21pm

I'm going to stick with just 3:
Bernstein
Kander
Jason Robert Brown

Not that the rest listed aren't great and fantastic, those three just happened to be my favorites.
HROK?
#15

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:28pm


Jim Steinman
Daniel Sturman
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Stephen Sondheim
Who can explain it, who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, wise men never try -South Pacific
#16

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:28pm

To John Popa

Missing In Action from the list

Stephen Schwartz
Erwin Drake
Walter Marks
Charles Strouse
Frank Loesser

Next question ?
Poster Emeritus
#17

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:30pm

Leonard Bernstein at his peak.

I mean Candide...that's a DAMN good score right there.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being." --Phylicia Rashad
#19

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:37pm

Sondheim
Loewe
Rodgers
Burton Lane
Mozart
Aaron Copeland
Alan Menken
J.S. Bach is the LORD of melody

Updated On: 3/25/05 at 11:37 PM

#20

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:44pm

I love the work of a lot of composers mentioned here. But top personal favorite: Sondheim.
#21

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:48pm

Not in order:
jason robert brown
sondheim
Aherns and Flaherty
Claude-Michel Schonberg
Jonathan Larson
and I SOMETIMES like Andrew Lloyd Webber
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#22

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:51pm

im a BIG composer fan, i could rattle off a long list so ill just give you the short version
Sondheim (all around fav)
JRB (new fav)
coleman (current obsession)
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#24

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:56pm

Okay I've gotta make my own:

Sondheim
Kander and Ebb
JRB
Michael John LaChiusa
William Finn
Ahrens and Flaherty
Yeston
Cy Coleman
Leonard Bernstein
Cole Porter
Lippa
#25

re: Your favorite Composers

Posted: 3/25/05 at 12:02am

1. SONDHEIM! the Mozart of musical theatre!
2. Stephen Schwartz
3. Alan Menken
4.Styne
5.Berlin
6. Webber
7 JRB
8 Wildhorn
9 Elton John
10 R&H
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