Your favorite composer?
Your favorite composer?
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#1Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:11pm
Whose your favorite composer?
Mine is Stephen Sondheim of course! 
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#4re: Your favorite composer?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#5re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:26pm
Stephen Sondheim
Frank Wildhorn
Adam Guettel
David Yazbek
Ahrens and Flaherty
Jason Robert Brown
Michael John LaChiusa
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#6re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:35pmJerry Herman
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#8re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:50pmJason Robert Brown
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#9re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 2:57pmStephen Flaherty.
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#10re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:04pmTie between JRB and Sondheim
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musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#12re: Your favorite composer?
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
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Updated On: 12/29/06 at 03:10 PM
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#13re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:14pmBoublil's a lyric/book writer.
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#14re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 3:19pm
Stephen Sondheim
Jerry Herman
Comden and Green
Arhens and Flaherty
Cole Porter
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Kaye Thompson
Updated On: 12/30/06 at 03:19 PM
#16re: Your favorite composer?
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.
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#17re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 4:10pm
Cole Porter
Stephen Sondheim
Comden & Green
Jule Styne
Jason Robert Brown
Rodgers & Hart
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Jerry Herman
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
Updated On: 12/29/06 at 04:10 PM
joniray
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/04
#18re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 5:42pmmusicaltheatre1, what did Oscar Hammerstein compose music for?
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#19re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 5:45pmThat'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.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#21re: Your favorite composer?
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
#22re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 6:04pmSondheim 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!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#23re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 7:51pmSondheim, then Cole Porter and Gershwin tied for second.
#24re: Your favorite composer?
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
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#25re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:43pmI'm kind of on a Duncan Sheik high right now.
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