Musicals.....

[Monkster]

Wasn't sure if this belonged here or M&E but since it deals primarily with music it goes here (feel free to move it if need be)

Anyway for those that like Musicals who is your favourite composer?

A bit of Info on the three contenders:

Gilbert and Sullivan:

- H.M.S. Pinafore
- The Pirates of Penzance
- The Mikado

Rodgers and Hammerstein:

- The King and I
- The Sound of Music
- South Pacific
- Oklahoma

Andrew Lloyd Webber:

- The Phantom of the Opera
- Cats
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Evita
- Sunset Boulevard

As much as I love Phantom (and hate Sound of Music) I would probably have to say Rodgers and Hammerstein are my favourites, no particular reason I just think their shows are/were better.

Any others I missed out on?

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Rogers and Hammerstein, because their's also translated well to movies.

The others works didn't.

 

[soupaman]

Jesus Christ Superstar is simply fantastic. I absolutely love it. Very well done and there are heaps of bridges and whatnot that make you go wow!

 

[skilts]

The Blues Brothers - nothing else even comes close.

 

[Brewster_]

R & H
I LOVE The Sound Of Music and Oklahoma.

 

[raskolnikov]

the hills are alive....

 

[Mobbs]

Rogerson!

 

[John]

Rogers and Hammerstein. The beez kneez.

 

[CURVE]

Irving Berlin and George and Ira Gershwin. The only musicals I can sit down to watch without squirming in my seat or throwing a brick at the Screen are the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals.

 

[Mobbs]

Irving Berlin and George and Ira Gershwin. The only musicals I can sit down to watch without squirming in my seat or throwing a brick at the Screen are the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals.

*Hums the Continental*

 

[evo]

Hard to go past anyone who would write.

"...there is nothing you can name,that is anything like a dame"

 

[Contra Mundum]

The only musical I like is Jesus Christ Superstar - a collection of top songs

 

[Mobbs]

Hard to go past anyone who would write.

"...there is nothing you can name,that is anything like a dame"

add to that "I'm just a girl who can't say no. I'm in a terrible fix."