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Music theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole...
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (pronounced /ˈbɜrn.staɪn/, us dict: bûrn′·stīn; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States...
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- Aug 25, 1918
Date of death:
- Oct 14, 1990 (age 72 years)
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- 1990
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Azio Corghi
Azio Corghi (9 March 1937 – is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli.
Date of birth:
- 1937 (age 73 years)
Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, author, radio personality and television gameshow panellist.
He is best known for his...
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- Nov 10, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (nine, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime...
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- Mar 22, 1930 (age 79 years)
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Elliot Goldenthal
Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Tom Lowe
Thomas Peter "Tom" Lowe (born 23 April 1978 in Stockport, England) is an English-born singer and actor.
Lowe was born in Stockport, England to his parents, Peter and Margaret Lowe. He grew up in the village of Mellor, on the outskirts of Stockport...
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- Apr 23, 1978 (age 31 years)
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David Essex
David Essex OBE (born David Albert Cook on 23 July 1947) is an English actor and singer, who has enjoyed a varied show business career.
Essex was born in Plaistow, England which, at the time of his birth, was officially part of the county of Essex....
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.
His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous. The song sparked an...
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1888
Date of death:
- Sep 22, 1989 (age 101 years)
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Anza Oyama
Anza Ōyama (大山アンザ, Ōyama Anza, born May 4, 1976) is a musician, singer and actress, primarily working in Japan. She was born to a Japanese father and a White South African mother.
Anza has performed in a number of stage productions, the majority of...
Date of birth:
- 1976 (age 34 years)
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar.
He wrote most of his vocal and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1898
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 1937 (age 38 years)
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1902
Date of death:
- Dec 30, 1979 (age 77 years)
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Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1895
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1943 (age 48 years)
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Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1931 (age 78 years)
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Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910 – July 26, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and...
Date of birth:
- Jun 29, 1910
Date of death:
- Jul 26, 1969 (age 59 years)
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Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man. She won the Academy...
Date of birth:
- Mar 31, 1934 (age 75 years)
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John Kander
John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is the American composer of a number of musicals as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb.
Kander was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Bernice (née Aaron) and Harold S. Kander. Kander...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1927 (age 82 years)
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Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan (born 1 June 1968, Malvern, Melbourne) is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK he has sold more than 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was the highest-selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million...
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- Jun 1, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944 in Vannes, France) is a French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the lyricist Alain Boublil.
These include the musicals:...
Date of birth:
- Jul 6, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Michael Ball
Michael Ashley Ball (born 27 June 1962, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) is an Olivier Award winning English actor, singer, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in...
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- Jun 27, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (born October 25, 1927) is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1927 (age 82 years)
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Robert B. Sherman
Robert Bernard Sherman (born December 19, 1925; see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary...
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- Dec 19, 1925 (age 84 years)
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Eric Woolfson
Eric Norman Woolfson (18 March 1945 – 2 December 2009) was a Scottish lead singer, songwriter and lyricist, executive producer, pianist, and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project. He wrote 2 songs that hit the British Singles Chart, with these...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1945
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 2009 (age 64 years)
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David Shire
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores.
Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano...
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- Jul 3, 1937 (age 72 years)
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London Gay Men's Chorus
Founded in 1991 by a group of six gay men, the London Gay Men’s Chorus is now, with around 190 singing members and over 230 members in total, Europe’s largest and best known gay choir.
With a widely varying repertoire from classical music to folk,...
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David Campbell
David Joseph Campbell (born 6 August 1973 in South Australia) is an Australian singer and stage performer. He has performed and recorded many different genres of music from rock to classics. He is the son of Jimmy Barnes.
David Campbell won his...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1973 (age 36 years)
Dick Lee
Richard "Dick" Lee Peng Boon (born 24 August 1956) is a Singaporean pop singer, composer, songwriter, and playwright. He is best known as a Singapore Idol judge, but often too as spokesperson for the New Asian generation.
He was born to a Peranakan...
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- Aug 24, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Ricky Ian Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon (born May 15, 1956) is an American stage musical composer and lyricist.
Gordon was born in Oceanside, New York and raised on Long Island with his three sisters, Susan, Lorraine and Sheila, by his mother and father, Eve and Sam. His...
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- May 15, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Peter Maffay
Peter Maffay (born August 30, 1949 in the Romanian town of Braşov, German: Kronstadt; real name: Peter Alexander Makkay) is a German musician.
The son of a German (Transylvanian Saxon) mother and a Hungarian father, in 1963, Maffay and his parents...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1949 (age 60 years)
Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus
The Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus (PGMC) is a choral organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1981, it is one of the oldest gay men's choruses in the United States, and is a cultural fixture in Philadelphia. The Chorus is affiliated...
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Ryan Molloy
Ryan Molloy is a British singer, songwriter and actor, who replaced Holly Johnson as the lead singer in Frankie Goes to Hollywood . He has also been successful in musical theatre, appearing in a number of hit musicals in the UK.
Originally from...
Date of birth:
- 1976 (age 34 years)
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Amina Figarova
Amina Figarova (born 1966 in Baku, Azerbaijan) is a jazz composer and jazz pianist. She currently lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Amina began studying music as a child, beginning learning the piano, and expanding into musical composition and...
Date of birth:
- 1966 (age 44 years)
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Queensland Youth Choir
Robert Clark founded the Queensland Youth Choir in 1984, originally as a training program for young singers. The choir has since evolved into four performance choirs: Poco Voci, StellaVoce, Vivace Voices and VoiceWorks. The choir's home is the Old...
Mathias Blad
Mathias Blad is a Swedish actor and singer, mainly known for being the lead singer of the power metal band Falconer.
Mathias was born in Motala, Sweden in 1973. He studied musical-theatre at Balettakademien in Gothenburg between 1989-1992 and...
Date of birth:
- 1973 (age 37 years)
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Peter Jöback
Peter Arne Jöback (born June 4, 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and musical artist, and is regarded as being one of Sweden's best male vocalists.
Peter Jöback has established himself as one of the most prolific and respected Swedish...
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- Jun 4, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Lorenzo Ferrero
Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951 in Turin) is a contemporary Italian composer of orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal music, with a predilection for opera. He studied composition with Massimo Bruni and Enore Zaffiri at Turin Music Conservatory and...
Date of birth:
- 1951 (age 59 years)
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1971
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San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band
The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band (SFLGFB) is a community concert and marching band based in San Francisco that promotes visibility and musical education for the Bay Area's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (GLBTI)...
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Siobhan Dillon
Siobhan Patricia Dillon (born 1 September 1984, Lichfield, Staffordshire) is an English actress and singer, who rose to fame when she performed in the British talent show-themed television series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? on BBC One in...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1984 (age 25 years)
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Leanne Dobinson
Leanne Dobinson (born 15 June 1986, Barking, London, England) is an English singer and was a contestant on the BBC1 show, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? which sought to find the leading lady for the new Andrew Lloyd Webber produced version...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1986 (age 23 years)
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Connie Fisher
Connie Fisher (born 17 June 1983) is a British actress and singer, who won the BBC One talent contest, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
Fisher was delighted to be named Maria: "I feel on top of the world, thanks very much. I won't let you down...
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1983 (age 26 years)
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won a Golden Globe....
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- Jun 2, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Donny Osmond
Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author. He is known for being half of the...
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- Dec 9, 1957 (age 52 years)
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Adam Guettel
Adam Guettel (pronounced /ˈɡɛtəl/, born 16 December 1964) is an American musical theater composer and lyricist best known for 2005's The Light in the Piazza, for which he won two Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations....
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Lotta Engberg
Lotta Engberg is a Swedish dansband and pop singer, born Anna Charlotte Pedersen on March 5, 1963 in Överkalix, Norrbotten County and grown-up in Laxå, Örebro County. She has also been a TV show host.
Under her maiden name Lotta Pedersen, she made...
Date of birth:
- 1963 (age 47 years)
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Alvin Stardust
Alvin Stardust (born Bernard William Jewry, 27 September 1942, Muswell Hill, North London) is an English pop singer and stage actor.
Moving to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire at a young age, he attended the Southwell Minster Collegiate Grammar School ...
Date of birth:
- Sep 27, 1942 (age 67 years)
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Marti Webb
Marti Webb (born 13 December 1944, Cricklewood, North West London) is a musical actress from England, who appeared on stage in Evita, before starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one woman show Tell Me On A Sunday in 1980. This included her biggest hit...
Date of birth:
- Dec 13, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Jerry Bock
Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock (born 23 November 1928) is an American musical theatre composer.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he...
Date of birth:
- Nov 23, 1928 (age 81 years)
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Kinderen voor Kinderen
Kinderen voor Kinderen is a Dutch children's choir maintained by public broadcaster VARA . The name translates as "children for children".
Since 1980 the choir has released one album of new children's songs each year, and is probably the only act...
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Andrew Findon
Andrew Findon is an English flautist and saxophonist. Educated at Harrow County School for Boys, he trained as an orchestral flautist, and served as principal flute of the National Youth Orchestra in the early 1970s and three years at the Royal...
Peter Moss
Peter Moss is an English composer, musician, arranger and musical director who might be best known for the previous theme tune of Grange Hill which was composed in 1990.
Born in the Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, London on July 23, 1948. ...
Date of birth:
- 1948 (age 62 years)
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Lee Mead
Lee Stephen Mead (born 14 July 1981, Southend-on-Sea) is an English musical theatre actor, best known for winning the BBC reality talent show Any Dream Will Do.
Mead gained professional stage experience in 2004, playing Levi (and later Pharaoh) in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 14, 1981 (age 28 years)
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Marcus Reeves
Marcus Reeves (born 3 February 1979, Clapham, London) is a London based songwriter and performer. He studied at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design before moving into music and theatre and is best known as the creator of Postcards from God...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1979 (age 30 years)
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Richard Cray
Richard Cray (born September 10, 1958) is a American actor and singer.
Richard began singing when he was nine years old. Possessing a true boy soprano voice, he was in great demand appearing in more than twenty plays, concerts and musicals before...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Kym Purling
Kym Purling (born November 2, 1972), is an Australian pianist and composer, who was born in Vietnam, adopted to Australia and currently resides in the United States. He has performed in numerous countries around the world and has made significant...
Date of birth:
- Nov 2, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Teatro
Teatro, Italian for "theatre", is a vocal group signed to the Sony BMG music label. The members of Teatro are Jeremiah James, Andrew Alexander, Simon Bailey and Stephen Rahman-Hughes.
Jeremiah James was born in upstate New York and raised in Los...
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Kate Melisa Parry
Kate Parry (born 29 April 1979, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian musical theatre performer, noted for her character acting, four octave mezzosoprano singing voice, her voiceover work and recording work Drum & Bass.
Parry...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1979 (age 30 years)
Diverse Harmony
Diverse Harmony is an American youth chorus based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2002 it is the first Gay-Straight Alliance Youth chorus in the United States. The chorus’ stated mission is "to create a safe, affirming environment where everyone...
Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus
The Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus (AGMC) is a nonprofit performing arts organization based in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). The AGMC's traditional concert season includes a Holiday Concert in early December, a Spring Concert in late March or early April, and a...
Melanie Parry
Melanie Parry was (born 23 November 1959) in Sydney, Australia and is a classically trained coloratura soprano show singer and actress.
She started in show business at the age of eleven by appearing on the Nine Networks as part of a well known...
Date of birth:
- Nov 23, 1959 (age 50 years)
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The Fantastic Leslie
The Fantastic Leslie were a four-piece band from Sydney, Australia and was the starting point for three of Australia's popular and successful comedians and musicians.
The group formed in 1999, with Cameron Bruce, Andrew Hansen, Tom Gleeson and James...
Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C.
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C. (GMCW), is one of the oldest LGBT choral organizations in the United States. With more than 225 singing members, it is also one of the largest. The chorus’ stated mission is “to entertain through excellent...
