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Stephen Sondheim Sondheim Sings, Vol. 1: 1962-1972 Film actor Saturday Night
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is an American musical and film composer and lyricist, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Award (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. He has been described by Frank Rich in the The New York Times as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theatre." His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A...
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Brian Wilson Brian Wilson in 2006 Musical Artist Good Vibrations
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Hawthorne, California) is an American musician best known as the lead songwriter, bassist, and singer of the American pop band The Beach Boys. Wilson was also the band's main producer, composer, and arranger. The lead vocal parts for The Beach Boys recordings were primarily sung by either Wilson, his brother Carl, or Mike Love. Early influences included The Four Freshmen and Chuck Berry, among others. Wilson admired Phil Spector, considering him both...
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Sherman Edwards   Topic 1776
Sherman Edwards (April 4, 1919 - March 30, 1981) was a Jewish-American songwriter. He was born in New York City. Edwards taught history at high school before entering the entertainment industry. He was married to Ingrid Edwards, a dancer in Kiss Me, Kate. Edwards wrote: Edwards' crowning achievement was the musical 1776 for which he wrote both lyrics and music. The show depicts the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia culminating with the signing of the Declaration of...
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Laurence O'Keefe   Musical Artist Bat Boy: The Musical
Laurence O'Keefe (Born Newcastle, England, January 2, 1965), 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 Topley-Bird. He is not to be confused with Laurence O'Keefe, the composer of various musicals such as Bat Boy: The Musical, La Cava, and Legally Blonde: The Musical.
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Jeanine Tesori   Topic Violet
Jeanine Tesori (formerly known as Jeanine Levenson) is a composer of musicals. She is perhaps best known for the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie; she composed eleven new songs for the show and added them to three from the movie version; four previously written songs from the 1920s were also added to the musical's score. She also composed the music for the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change, with lyrics by Tony Kushner. She contributed music to the 1998 Broadway production of William...
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Cole Porter Cole Porter Musical Artist Anything Goes
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen, and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated (sometimes ribald) lyrics, clever rhymes, and complex forms. He was one of the greatest...
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Lionel Bart Lionel Bart Topic  
Lionel Bart (August 1, 1930 – April 3, 1999) was an English composer of songs and musicals, best known for Oliver! Bart was born Lionel Begleiter the youngest of seven surviving children in East London to Galician Jew, and grew up in Stepney. His father worked as a tailor in a garden shed in London E1. The family had escaped the pogroms in Galicia which was then part of the Austrian Empire. Lionel later changed his name to Bart derived from the name of the silk screen printing firm he and...
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Jeff Marx Marx (left) and Lopez (right) Topic 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. Together, they wrote all the show's 21 songs. Lopez and Marx both write lyrics and they both write music, and wrote the entire score together, in the same room, at the same time. Avenue Q is currently running on Broadway (now the 25th longest running musical in Broadway history), in London's West End, on a U.S. National Tour, and...
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Lucy Simon   Topic The Secret Garden
Lucy Simon (born 1940) 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 nominated for a 1991 Tony Award for Best Original Score and a 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. She also wrote songs for the off-Broadway show A...My Name is Alice. Her parents were Richard L. Simon, co-founder of the publishing house Simon ...
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Galt MacDermot   Film music contributor Hair
Galt MacDermot (born December 18, 1928 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian pianist, composer and writer of musical theatre. He was educated at Upper Canada College and Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Quebec). He was trained in music in South Africa and made a study of African music his specialty. Galt wrote the music for Cotton Comes to Harlem, a 1970 blaxploitation film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx based on Chester Himes' novel of the same name. He is best...
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Burton Lane   Topic Finian's Rainbow
Burton Lane (February 2, 1912, New York City - January 5, 1997, New York City) was an American composer and lyricist. Lane (real name Burton Levy) was best known for his Broadway musical, Finian's Rainbow (1947) and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). He also wrote the music for the less successful Broadway shows, Hold On to Your Hats (1940), Laffing Room Only (1944), Junior Miss (1957), and Carmelina (1979), the latter with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, who had also written lyrics to Lane...
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Oscar Hammerstein II Topic Flower Drum Song
Oscar Hammerstein II (born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein) (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years. He was twice awarded an Oscar for "Best Original Song", and much of his work has been admitted into the unofficial Great American Songbook. Born in New York City, his father, William, was from a non-practicing Jew family; his mother, née Alice Nimmo, was the daughter of Scottish immigrants...
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Richard M. Sherman Richard M. Sherman at the 2002 Annie Awards receiving the Windsor McKay award Film music contributor Busker Alley
Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928) (see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, "It's a Small World (after all)". Richard Morton Sherman was born on June 12, 1928 in New York City to parents, Rosa (pronounced: "Rose"...
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Jule Styne   Musical Artist 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 Julius Kerwin Stein of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit...
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Steve Margoshes   Musical Artist Fame  
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Richard Adler   Topic 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 a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950. As a duo they worked in tandem, both taking credit for lyrics and music. After establishing their partnership, Adler and Ross quickly became proteges of composer/lyricist/publisher Frank Loesser....
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Jim Steinman Film music contributor Dance of the Vampires
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 songs in the adult contemporary, rock and roll, dance/techno, pop, musical theater, and film score genres. His work includes the Meat Loaf album Bat out of Hell and Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and producing albums for Bonnie Tyler. His most successful chart...
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John Kander Film music contributor The Act
John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri) is the American composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb. Kander attended The Pembroke Country-Day School and Oberlin College before earning a master's degree at Columbia University. He began his Broadway career as substitute rehearsal pianist for West Side Story. The stage manager for West Side Story then asked Kander to play the auditions for her next show Gypsy....
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Richard Rodgers An autographed photo of Richard Rodgers Film music contributor Allegro
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902, Arverne, Queens, New York City – December 30, 1979, New York City) was an American compose of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricist Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music down to the present day, and have an enduring broad appeal. Rodgers and Marvin...
Musical Artist Flower Drum Song
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Roger Miller A section of the album jacket for Golden Hits Film music contributor Big River
Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his mid-1960s country/pop hits such as "King of the Road", "Dang Me," and "England Swings." He also wrote the music and lyrics for the Tony-award winning Broadway musical Big River (1985). Roger Miller, the youngest of three boys, was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Laudene Holt Miller (mother) and father Jean Miller. Jean died when Roger was only a year old, and he was...
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Eric Idle Eric Idle Film director Spamalot
Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and composer of comedic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python. Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear) in Harton Village, the son of Nora Barron (Sanderson) and Ernest Idle. His father had served in the Royal Air Force and survived World War II, only to be killed in a hitch-hiking accident on Christmas Eve of the first Christmas...
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Stephen Schwartz   Film music contributor Children of Eden
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is a well-known American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has produced such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has also contributed lyrics for a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) and Enchanted (2007). Along the way, Schwartz has won three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards and garnered six Tony...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber AndrewLloydWebber3 Film writer Aspects of Love
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.Webber started composing at the age of six and published his first piece when he was 9. Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film score, and a...
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Marvin Hamlisch Marvin Hamlisch on TV's The Match Game Musical Artist A Chorus Line
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is a multi award-winning American composer. He is one of only two people in history (the other being Richard Rodgers) to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize. Hamlisch was born in New York City, the son of Viennese Jewish parents Lily (née Schachter) and Max Hamlisch. His was a musical family with his father being an accordionist and bandleader. Marvin Hamlisch was a child prodigy and by age five he began mimicking...
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Irving Berlin Film music contributor Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russia-born naturalized American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriter in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs. Although he never learned to read music beyond a rudimentary level, with the help of various uncredited musical assistants or collaborators, he eventually composed over 3,000 songs, many of which (e.g. "God Bless...
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Claude-Michel Schönberg   Musical Artist The Pirate Queen
Claude-Michel Schönberg (born July 6, 1944 in Vannes, France) is a French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the librettist Alain Boublil. These include the musicals: Schönberg began his career as a record producer and a singer. By the early 1970s he had become successful. He wrote most of the music for the French musical and rock opera, La Révolution Française, France's first rock opera, in 1973, and also...