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| x Stephen Sondheim |
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Saturday Night |
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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| Follies | |||
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | |||
| Into the Woods | |||
| Anyone Can Whistle | |||
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| x Brian Wilson |
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Good Vibrations |
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the rock group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time...
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| x Sherman Edwards | 1776 |
Sherman Edwards (April 4, 1919 – March 30, 1981) was an American songwriter.
Edwards was born in New York City and raised in Weequahic New Jersey, where he attended Weequahic High School outside of Newark, NJ, then Columbia University in New York...
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| x Laurence O'Keefe | Bat Boy: The Musical |
Laurence O'Keefe (Born 2 January 1965 in Newcastle) is an English bass player and has previously played in a number of bands, most notably Jazz Butcher, Levitation and Dark Star. Since Dark Star split up, O'Keefe has toured with Sophia and Martina...
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| x Jeanine Tesori | Violet |
Jeanine Tesori (born c. 1961) is an American musical arranger and composer who won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for Nicholas Hytner's production of Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center and the 2004 Drama Desk Award for...
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| Caroline, or Change | |||
| Thoroughly Modern Millie | |||
| x Cole Porter |
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Anything Goes |
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day",...
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| Fifty Million Frenchmen | |||
| Panama Hattie | |||
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| x Lionel Bart |
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Oliver! |
Lionel Bart (August 1, 1930 – April 3, 1999) was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver!
Bart was born Lionel Begleiter the youngest of seven surviving children in East...
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| Blitz! | |||
| Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be | |||
| La Strada | |||
| Twang! | |||
| x Jeff Marx |
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Avenue Q |
Jeff Marx (born September 10, 1970) is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez.
Marx grew up in Hollywood, Florida. He attended Pine Crest School in Fort...
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| x Lucy Simon | The Secret Garden |
Lucy Simon (born 1943) is the older sister of musician Carly Simon. She began her professional career at the age of sixteen as a duo with sister Carly. Lucy Simon made her Broadway debut as the composer of The Secret Garden, for which she was...
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| x Galt MacDermot | Hair |
Galt MacDermot (born December 18, 1928) is a Canadian composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre. He won a Grammy Award for the song "African Waltz" in 1960. His most successful musicals have been Hair (1967; its cast album also won a Grammy)...
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| Two Gentlemen of Verona | |||
| Via Galactica | |||
| Dude | |||
| The Human Comedy | |||
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| x Burton Lane | Finian's Rainbow |
Burton Lane (February 2, 1912 – January 5, 1997) was an American composer and lyricist.
Lane (real name Burton Levy) was best known for his Broadway musicals, Finian's Rainbow (1947) and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). He also wrote the...
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| On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | |||
| Carmelina | |||
| x Oscar Hammerstein II |
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Flower Drum Song |
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (pronounced /ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight...
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| x Richard M. Sherman |
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Busker Alley |
Richard Morton Sherman (born June 12, 1928; see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert Bernard Sherman.
Some of the Sherman Brothers' best-known writing includes the songs from...
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| Over Here! | |||
| Mary Poppins | |||
| Victory Canteen | |||
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |||
| x Jule Styne |
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Hallelujah, Baby! |
Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.
Styne was born in London, England as...
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| Gypsy: A Musical Fable | |||
| Funny Girl | |||
| High Button Shoes | |||
| Look to the Lilies | |||
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| x Steve Margoshes | Fame | ||
| x Richard Adler | The Pajama Game |
Richard Adler (born August 3, 1921) is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.
Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the navy he began his career as...
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| Kwamina | |||
| Damn Yankees | |||
| Kwamina | |||
| x Jim Steinman |
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Dance of the Vampires |
James Richard "Jim" Steinman (born November 1, 1947 in New York City, New York) is an American record producer, composer and lyricist, responsible for several hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer. His work has included...
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| More Than You Deserve | |||
| x John Kander |
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The Act |
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...
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| The Visit | |||
| A Family Affair | |||
| Chicago | |||
| Cabaret | |||
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| x Richard Rodgers |
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Allegro |
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...
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| Flower Drum Song | |||
| Babes in Arms | |||
| Me and Juliet | |||
| South Pacific | |||
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| x Roger Miller |
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Big River |
Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was a Grammy and Tony Award winning American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping...
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| x Eric Idle |
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Spamalot |
Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer and composer of comic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python.
Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham (now Tyne...
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| x Stephen Schwartz |
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Children of Eden |
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has...
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| The Baker's Wife | |||
| Godspell | |||
| Wicked | |||
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| x Andrew Lloyd Webber |
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre, the elder son of organist William Lloyd Webber and brother of the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber started composing at the age of six, and published his...
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| Aspects of Love | |||
| Song and Dance | |||
| Evita | |||
| Cats | |||
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| x Marvin Hamlisch |
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A Chorus Line |
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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| Smile | |||
| Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical | |||
| They're Playing Our Song | |||
| The Goodbye Girl | |||
| x Irving Berlin |
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Annie Get Your Gun |
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...
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| Louisiana Purchase | |||
| Yip Yip Yaphank | |||
| Call Me Madam | |||
| Miss Liberty | |||
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| x Claude-Michel Schönberg | The Pirate Queen |
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:...
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| Miss Saigon | |||
| Les Misérables | |||
| Martin Guerre | |||
| x Charlie Smalls | The Wiz | ||
| x Marc Shaiman |
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Hairspray |
Marc Shaiman (born October 22, 1959) is an American composer, lyricist, arranger, and performer for films, television, and theatre.
Shaiman was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Claire (née Goldfein) and William Robert Shaiman. He lives in both...
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| x Cy Coleman |
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City of Angels |
For the fictional principal Seymour Kaufman, see Room 222.
Cy Coleman (June 14, 1929 - November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.
He was born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, in New York City to Eastern European...
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| The Life | |||
| Sweet Charity | |||
| Will Rogers Follies | |||
| Barnum | |||
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| x Hugh Martin |
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High Spirits |
Hugh Martin (born August 11, 1914) is an American musical theatre and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the classic 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin...
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| Meet Me in St. Louis | |||
| Make a Wish | |||
| x Jerome Kern | Show Boat |
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All...
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| Roberta | |||
| Sally | |||
| Oh, Boy! | |||
| The Dollar Princess | |||
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| x Elvis Presley |
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All Shook Up |
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as The King of Rock 'n' Roll or The King.
Presley began his career in...
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| x Stephen Oliver | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
Stephen Michael Harding Oliver (10 March 1950 – 29 April 1992) was an English composer, best known for his operas.
Born in Chester, Oliver was educated at Ardingly College and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read music under Kenneth Leighton...
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| x Frank Wildhorn | Jekyll & Hyde |
Frank Wildhorn (born 1959) is an American composer known for his musicals and popular songs.
Wildhorn was born in New York City and moved with his family to Hollywood, Florida at age 14. He attended Miami University for one year and transferred to...
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| The Scarlet Pimpernel | |||
| Dracula, The Musical | |||
| Victor/Victoria | |||
| The Count of Monte Cristo | |||
| x Dick Lee |
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Puteri Gunung Ledang |
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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| x Leonard Bernstein |
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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue |
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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| On the Town | |||
| West Side Story | |||
| Wonderful Town | |||
| The Race to Urga | |||
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| x Fats Waller |
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Ain't Misbehavin' |
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 - December 15, 1943) born Thomas Wright Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer. He was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller, wife of the Reverend Edward Martin...
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| Black and Blue | |||
| x Frank Loesser |
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
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...
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| Guys and Dolls | |||
| The Most Happy Fella | |||
| Where's Charley? | |||
| Greenwillow | |||
| x Alan Menken |
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Beauty and the Beast |
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with lyricists including Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. For his work he has won eight Academy Awards as well as ten...
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| Little Shop of Horrors | |||
| King David | |||
| The Little Mermaid | |||
| x Robert B. Sherman |
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Over Here! |
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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| Mary Poppins | |||
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |||
| x John Du Prez | Spamalot |
John Du Prez (born December 14, 1946 in Sheffield, United Kingdom) is a musician. He has often worked with Eric Idle for the music for Monty Python, most notably the score for Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and A Fish Called Wanda. He also co...
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| x Jason Robert Brown |
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The Last Five Years |
Jason Robert Brown (born 1970 in Ossining, New York) is an American musical theater composer and lyricist. Often cited as one of the "New School" of theatrical composers (a list that includes Michael John LaChiusa, Adam Guettel, Andrew Lippa, Songs...
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| Songs for a New World | |||
| Parade | |||
| A New Brain | |||
| Urban Cowboy | |||
| x George Stiles | Mary Poppins |
George William Stiles (born 9 August 1961) is an English composer of musicals for stage and screen.
From 1974 to 1979, he was educated at Gresham's School, in Norfolk. George Stiles also went to Exeter University.
With Anthony Drewe, Stiles has...
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| Honk! | |||
| x Jerry Ross | The Pajama Game |
Jerry Ross (né Jerold Rosenberg March 9, 1926 – November 11, 1955) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956...
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| x David Yazbek | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
David Yazbek (born 1960) is an Emmy-winning American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He was born to a Jewish-Italian mother and a Lebanese father in New York City. Musical from birth, he began cello lessons in elementary school and took...
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| The Full Monty | |||
| x Björn Ulvaeus |
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Chess |
Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (Swedish pronunciation: [bjœːɳ ɵlˈveːɵs], born 25 April 1945) is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and...
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| Mamma Mia! | |||
| x Jerry Herman |
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La Cage aux Folles |
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...
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| Milk and Honey | |||
| Hello, Dolly! | |||
| Dear World | |||
| Mame | |||
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| x William Finn | A New Brain |
William Alan Finn (b. February 28, 1952, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer and lyricist, especially of musicals.
William Finn grew up in Natick, Massachusetts with his parents and siblings, Michael and Nancy. He majored in music at...
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| The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | |||
| Falsettoland | |||
| Infinite Joy | |||
| Falsettos | |||
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| x Benny Andersson |
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Chess |
Göran Bror Benny Andersson (born in Stockholm, Sweden on 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!....
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| Mamma Mia! | |||
| x Robert Lopez |
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Avenue Q |
Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is an American composer and lyricist of musicals best known for co-writing the Broadway musical Avenue Q, for which he won a Tony Award.
A native of the picturesque Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village,...
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| x Victor Herbert |
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Babes in Toyland |
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway. He was prominent among the tin pan...
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| Sweethearts | |||
| Sally | |||
| Eileen | |||
| Mlle. Modiste | |||
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| x Christopher Bond | Evil Dead the Musical |
Christopher Godfrey Bond (b. 1945) is a British playwright whose 1973 retelling of the Victorian tale Sweeney Todd formed the basis of Stephen Sondheim's musical of the same name, with book by Hugh Wheeler. He currently lives in West Cornwall.
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| x Jonathan Larson |
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Rent |
Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for the serious social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, homophobia, and AIDS explored in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes...
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| Tick, Tick... BOOM! | |||
| x Stephen Flaherty | Seussical |
Stephen Flaherty (born September 18, 1960) is an American composer of musical theatre who writes mostly in collaboration with the lyricist/bookwriter Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for writing the Broadway shows Once on This Island, which was...
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| Ragtime | |||
| Once On This Island | |||
| Lucky Stiff | |||
| My Favorite Year | |||
| x Mary Rodgers | Once Upon a Mattress |
Mary Rodgers (born January 11, 1931) is an American composer of musicals, an author of children's books, and the daughter of Broadway composer Richard Rodgers.
Rodgers' musical works include Once Upon a Mattress (1959), From A to Z (1960), Hot Spot ...
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| Hot Spot | |||
| The Mad Show | |||
| Working | |||
| Side By Side By Sondheim | |||
| x Harry Warren |
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42nd Street |
Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three...
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| Shangri-La | |||
| x Damon Albarn |
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Damon Albarn (pronounced /ˈdeɪmən ˈɔːlbɑːn/; born 23 March 1968 in Whitechapel, London), is a Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has been involved in many high profile projects and collaborations throughout his...
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| x Queen |
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We Will Rock You |
Queen were an English rock band. Formed in London in 1970 following the demise of the band Smile, Queen consisted of vocalist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor. The band became popular with audiences...
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| x Harvey Schmidt | The Fantasticks |
Harvey Lester Schmidt (born September 12, 1929 in Dallas, Texas, U.S.) is an American writer of musical theatre, best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 - 2002...
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| Celebration | |||
| I Do! I Do! | |||
| x Charles Cuvillier | Afgar |
Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 - 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta.
He was born (and died) in Paris and studied with Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet. Cuvillier won his greatest success with the operetta La reine s'amuse (1912)....
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