Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#0Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:13pm
Inquiring minds want to know!
I want to know.
I have many.
Mine is a tie:
Tesori/Kushner/Scanlan
Lopez and Marx
Updated On: 5/16/05 at 08:13 PM
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#1re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:19pmR&H and Stephen Schwartz!
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
defy_gravity
Stand-by Joined: 9/12/04
#3re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:23pm
I love Sondheim, myself.
Into the Woods (and Sunday in the Park and Company and Gypsy and Sweeney Todd and Assassins and A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum and A Little Night Music and Follies and Merrily We Roll Along and Pacific Overtures and...) kicks ass!
We can't all come and go by bubble...
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#4re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:24pmI feel HORRIBLE saying this but... I've always been scared to get the PIPPEN CD! Mainly because of the ppl on it. With me, if I dont like the singers, then I CANT listen to the CD.
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#5re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:25pmI'm actually a huge fan of Maury Yeston. And of course, I love Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown. Lippa's music is also quite enjoyable. I can't really say I have a favorite.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#7re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:27pm
I have to say I don't have 4 favorites. I have 29.
Sondheim is up there. So is Shaiman and Wittman, Hart, Hammerstein, Rodgers, Gershwin.
It would probably be easier to ask what Composers don't you enjoy. 
#8re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:29pmI also sort of forgot Rogers (with Hart preferably) and Tesori.
#9re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:29pm
Jeffery Cotton...it's not theater music...but it's great contemporay chamber and string writing!
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#10re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:29pmIf I had to pick one, it would be Richard Rodgers. But there are soooooo many other great ones.
#11re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:31pm
One favorite? How about 3?
Gershwin
Bernstein (WWS COME ON!)
R and H
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defy_gravity
Stand-by Joined: 9/12/04
#12re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:36pm
Irving Berlin
Rodgers & Hart
Maury Yeston
Sondheim (<333)
Gershiwns
Rogers & Hammerstein
We can't all come and go by bubble...
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:36pmMozart, Puccini, Beethoven, Mahler, and Tchaikovsky.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#14re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:57pm
Um Sondheim
thats a no brainer
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
#15re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:01pmSondheim is probably my favorite but there are so many.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#16re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:03pmJonathan Larson, he's a composer in his own right is he not?
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#17re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:49pmJonathan Larson. He's my favorite.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:58pm
Stephen Sondheim and Kander & Ebb
Updated On: 5/19/05 at 09:58 PM
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#19re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:59pm
These teams:
Sondhem
William Finn
Tesori
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#20re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:03pm
Hmm...Saint-Saens, Mozart, Bach. Paganini's Caprices are deadly.
Oh. And Gerswhin. :)
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kitkatgirl54
Leading Actor Joined: 5/19/04
#21re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:07pm
wow. this is hard.
toss-up between lippa, finn and lachiusa.
and i'd probably be saying larson if he had been able to write more stuff 
#22re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:09pmSondheim, JRB, and Yeston
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#23re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:23pm
Sondheim
Testori
Ahrens and Flaherty
(in no particular order)
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
#24re: Who Is Your Favorite Composer?
Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:26pm
Stephen Flaherty
Stephen Sondheim
and tie between Richard Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein
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