Your favorite composer?

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:11pm

Whose your favorite composer?

Mine is Stephen Sondheim of course!

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:13pm

stefen shortz

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:15pm

Andy Webber

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:23pm

I'll get back on track here, Sondheim and LaChiusa.
Updated On: 12/29/06 at 02:23 PM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:26pm

Stephen Sondheim
Frank Wildhorn
Adam Guettel
David Yazbek
Ahrens and Flaherty
Jason Robert Brown
Michael John LaChiusa

Updated On: 2/22/07 at 02:26 PM

[Julian2]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:35pm

Jerry Herman

[smilinggiggle]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:40pm

Sondheim

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:50pm

Jason Robert Brown

[B3TA07]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:57pm

Stephen Flaherty.

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:04pm

Tie between JRB and Sondheim

[swerve]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:09pm

Michael John LaChiusa

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:10pm

1. Leonard Bernstein
2. Richard Rodgers
3. Oscar Hammerstein
4. Stephen Sondheim
5. Claude Michel
6. omitted - thanks B3TA07

Updated On: 12/29/06 at 03:10 PM

[B3TA07]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:14pm

Boublil's a lyric/book writer.

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:19pm

Stephen Sondheim
Jerry Herman
Comden and Green
Arhens and Flaherty
Cole Porter

Updated On: 12/30/06 at 03:19 PM

[elvisitis1302]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:48pm

Sondheim and LaChiusa - hands down.

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:51pm

I love Sondheim and William Finn and Jason Robert Brown. But Rodgers and Hammerstein do great work too. Love love Comden and Green musicals (with the exception of Wonderful Town) and there is Gershwin because he created Porgy and Bess and that is simply a masterpiece!
And of course Adam Guettel. That music is sooooo beautiful.

[glimpseofstocking]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 4:10pm

Cole Porter
Stephen Sondheim
Comden & Green
Jule Styne
Jason Robert Brown
Rodgers & Hart
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Jerry Herman

Updated On: 12/29/06 at 04:10 PM

[joniray]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 5:42pm

musicaltheatre1, what did Oscar Hammerstein compose music for?

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 5:45pm

That's a tough question because I think every composers has had hits and misses. I'd have to say Sondheim - soley based on Sunday in the Park with George, I'm not a HUGE sondheim fan like most people. And Maury Yeston because i think he writes some gorgeous melodies. And LaChiusa for taking some obscure subjects and making them into rather fine musicals. Not JRB fan at all, I just can't get into his music. And I wouldn't consider Guettel my favorite yet because he's only had one major staging of his work.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 5:56pm

JRB just for L5Y.

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 6:01pm

I don't have one favorite but I have a top 10: (Count Tesori twice)
1. Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez
2. Jeanine Tesori
3. Gerard Alessandrini- For creating the funniest lyrics to all my favorite shows.
4. Marc Shaiman
5. Jerry Herman
6. Rogers and Hart/Hammerstein
7. Comden and Green
8. Sondheim
9. Schwartz
These are my top favorites.

Updated On: 12/29/06 at 06:01 PM

[jenna2]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 6:04pm

Sondheim and Gershwin are definitely my top two. I'm sure I could come up with a top five (or ten) list, but it would be nothing but 2 and 3-way ties the whole way down!

[keen on kean]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 7:51pm

Sondheim, then Cole Porter and Gershwin tied for second.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:37pm

Stephen Sondheim
Kander & Ebb (can I really be the first to mention them???)
Jason Robert Brown
Adam Guettel
George Gershwin
Cole Porter

[alliez92092]

Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:43pm

I'm kind of on a Duncan Sheik high right now.