Broadway Composers You Dislike
Broadway Composers You Dislike
PUPPETMAN
Understudy Joined: 12/28/07
#1Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 4:49pmMost of you will come down on me for this, but I do not like Sondheim when he writes both music and lyrics. His lyrics for other composers are brilliant and can not be surpassed, but rarely does he write melodies that come close to the magnificent lyrics.
#2re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 4:56pm
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Stephen Schwartz
Both write bland pop music and continuously & blatantly recycle their own melodies. Plus Schwartz is an atrocious lyricist.
Updated On: 2/18/08 at 04:56 PM
#2re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 4:57pmJason Robert Brown *shrugs*
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#3re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 4:57pmWilliam Finn. My ears hurt just thinking about him.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#4re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 5:00pm
Jerry Herman tried to sucker punch me once 
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#5re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 5:02pm
Frank Wildhorn.
Not wild about ALW either.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#6re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 5:03pm
William Finn. My ears hurt just thinking about him.
Save for a couple of songs from FALSETTOS here and there, I am SO with you on that one.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#7re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 5:06pm
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Andrew Lloyd Weber
I think he is redundant...a lot.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#8re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 5:41pm
Schwartz
Sondheim
Webber
Now, I also don't like Jason Robert Brown in general (Last 5 Years, Songs for a New World, etc.), but the only score that makes him a "Broadway composer" is Parade, which I am in love with.
#9re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:07pm
while i think most composers are not being given the proper staging to make their work "good", i have to say i'm not super wild on Lerner & Loewe. this doesn't mean i haven't heard fabulous versions of various things, i just can't fully commit to their style. it reminds me a lot of someone ripping off of "Rogers & Hammerstein" unsuccessfully.
i'm also not a fan of Boublil & Schoenberg's work.
#10re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:12pm
Andrew Lippa (fine Melody, horrible lyrics)
Tom Kitt (He Hurts My Ears)
Schwartz (Though I do enjoy Baker's Wife, never seen on Broadway)
Updated On: 2/18/08 at 06:12 PM
#12re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:14pm
Ditto on Wildhorn. Craphorn is more like it.
Choose better lyricists!
#13re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:14pm
Sondhiem
Webber
Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
#14re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:15pm
1 more!, though he has yet to have a work produced on Broadway.
Scott Alan, bleck!
#15re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:15pmIsn't hating Sondheim for no reason getting a little old?
#16re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:16pmWebber and Wildhorn
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#17re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:17pmI know that, for the big majority of musical theater lovers, I should be ashamed of myself, but...I never understood the infatuation with Sondheim ! Almost all his shows, bore me to death ! There...I said it !
#18re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:21pm^ This is not meant to be rude at all. But judging by your "favorite shows", that comes as no surprise.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#19re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:22pm
Schwartz - "Wicked" and "Working" are the only two I like...and in Working his songs are my least favorite.
Scott Alan - Boring
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
#20re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:27pmNo offense taken ljay ! It's all a matter of taste !
#21re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:38pm
Andrew Lloyd Webber
And don't crucify me for this, but I can't stand Cole Porter.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#22re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:40pm
Cole Porter! I need to stop reading this thread! You guys are killing me.
I'm sorry, but next to Sondheim, Porter is tops in the Lyric dept.
#23re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:44pm
William Finn. Don't get it.
And especially the composers to LEGALLY BLONDE and WEDDING SINGER. "Oh my God! Let's try to be uber energetic, tongue in cheek, but sensitive."
#24re: Broadway Composers You Dislike
Posted: 2/18/08 at 6:46pm
Andrew Lippa
ALW (with the exception of "Evita". Although it does seem that the score is composed of the five highest notes on the piano and nothing else.)
I like some of William Finn, but never understood the infatuation.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
