Creative
Summer of '42 | Party Come Here | Vanities - A New Musical
My first instinct was something a bunch of other people have probably chosen, CAMELOT's "If Ever I Would Leave You;" it just doesn't get any better. But as a contemporary theatre songwriter, I feel like, in the end, I wanna go with some more recent stuff, and my three favorite love duets from the last decade or so are Yazbek's "Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True" (DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS) for its old-school melody and goofy originality, LaChiusa's "People Like Us" (THE WILD PARTY), with its sexy and soulful take on how two lonely, damaged people can connect, and, especially, Hamlisch and Carnelia's "Don't Know Where You Leave Off" (THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS), which has a great lyric hook, endless longing, and in its own jazzy way, soars musically as much as anything since the days of Lerner & Loewe. All incredible, beautiful numbers, which prove they can write 'em like they used to. Here's hoping the most romantic Broadway love songs haven't even been written yet.