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| x Stephen Sondheim |
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Gypsy: A Musical Fable |
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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| Saturday Night | |||
| Follies | |||
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| x Tim Rice |
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Chess |
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon 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 collaborations...
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| Aida | |||
| Beauty and the Beast | |||
| Evita | |||
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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 Adlin Aman Ramlee | Puteri Gunung Ledang | ||
| x Chen Shi-zheng |
Chen Shi-Zheng 陳士爭 born in 1963 in Changsha, Hunan, China) is a New York-based theater director.
Having earned a BA from the Hunan Art School in Traditional Opera, he received his MA from the Tisch School of Art at New York University. In 2000, Chen...
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| x Charlie Smalls | The Wiz | ||
| 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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| Whistle Down the Wind | |||
| More Than You Deserve | |||
| x Lee Adams | It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman |
Lee Adams (born August 14, 1924) is a Tony Award-winning American lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse.
Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Adams received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University and a...
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| All-American | |||
| Applause | |||
| Bye Bye Birdie | |||
| I and Albert | |||
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| x Comden and Green |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writing duo (billed as Comden and Green) who penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM during the genre's heyday.
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| x Oscar Hammerstein II |
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Allegro |
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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| Show Boat | |||
| Me and Juliet | |||
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| x Timothy Mason | Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!: The Musical |
Timothy Wright Mason (2 March 1940 – 5 March 1990) was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany.
He was born in Birkenhead, the child of school-teachers and was educated at Birkenhead School and Oxford University. He taught at Oxford from 1971...
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| x Fred Wise | All Shook Up |
Fred Wise was the co-writer of the lyrics to the 1948 song "'A' — You're Adorable" with Buddy Kaye. He subsequently wrote many of the songs sung by Elvis Presley in his movies.
Many of his songs were collaborations with Kay Twomey and Ben Weisman,...
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| x Lorenz Hart |
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Babes in Arms |
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...
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| I'd Rather Be Right | |||
| Simple Simon | |||
| I Married an Angel | |||
| The Boys from Syracuse | |||
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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 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 Marsha Norman |
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The Secret Garden |
Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden,...
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| The Red Shoes | |||
| x Sheldon Harnick |
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Fiddler on the Roof |
Sheldon Harnick (born 30 April 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.
Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues....
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| The Rothschilds | |||
| She Loves Me | |||
| Baker Street | |||
| Fiorello! | |||
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| x Richard M. Sherman |
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Over Here! |
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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| Mary Poppins | |||
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |||
| x Gerome Ragni | Hair |
Gerome Bernard Ragni (September 11, 1935 - July 10, 1991) was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as the co-author of the groundbreaking 1960s American tribal love-rock musical Hair.
Ragni was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one...
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| Dude | |||
| x Alain Boublil | The Pirate Queen |
Alain Boublil is a librettist, born in Tunisia in 1941, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. These include:
Alain Boublil’s first musical, La Révolution Française, was the first-ever staged French rock opera....
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| Miss Saigon | |||
| Les Misérables | |||
| Martin Guerre | |||
| 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 The Beach Boys |
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Good Vibrations |
The Beach Boys are an American rock and roll band. Formed in 1961, they gained popularity for their close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of surfing, girls, and cars. Brian Wilson's growing creative ambitions later...
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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 Ben Elton | We Will Rock You |
Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, while more recently he has become known for his work as a novelist....
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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 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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| Hello, Dolly! | |||
| Dear World | |||
| Mame | |||
| Showtune | |||
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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 | |||
| Urban Cowboy | |||
| x Fred Ebb |
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The Act |
Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
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| Chicago | |||
| Cabaret | |||
| Flora the Red Menace | |||
| The Rink - Kander & Ebb | |||
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| x Glenn Slater |
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The Little Mermaid |
Glenn Slater (born 1968) is a Tony-nominated lyricist who collabrates with Alan Menken and other musical theatre composers.
Slater was born in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in East Brunswick, New Jersey. In 2000, he graduated at Harvard...
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| x Scott Wittman | Hairspray |
Scott Wittman (born 1955) is an American director, lyricist, and writer for Broadway, concerts, and television.
Wittman was raised in Nyack, New York and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical...
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| 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 | |||
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| x Richard Maltby, Jr. | Miss Saigon |
Richard Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937, Ripon, Wisconsin) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter.
Maltby is also well known as a constructor of cryptic crossword puzzles. He has done this for Harper's Magazine,...
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| The Pirate Queen | |||
| Baby | |||
| Take Flight | |||
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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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| Starlight Express | |||
| The Full Monty | |||
| x Martin Charnin | Annie |
Martin Charnin (born November 24, 1934) is an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director.
Born in Washington Heights in New York City, He attended Music & Art High School and graduated from Cooper Union. Charnin began his theatrical career as a...
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| Zenda | |||
| Hot Spot | |||
| Two by Two | |||
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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 | |||
| Pippin | |||
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| x Robert B. Sherman |
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Busker Alley |
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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| Over Here! | |||
| Mary Poppins | |||
| Victory Canteen | |||
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |||
| x Richard Rodgers |
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Flower Drum Song |
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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| No Strings | |||
| x T. S. Eliot |
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Cats |
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (26 September 1888–4 January 1965), was a poet, playwright, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, "The...
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| The Rock | |||
| x Howard Ashman | Beauty and the Beast |
Howard Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve his...
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| Little Shop of Horrors | |||
| Smile | |||
| The Little Mermaid | |||
| x Adolph Green |
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Hallelujah, Baby! |
Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 – October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur...
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| On the Town | |||
| Will Rogers Follies | |||
| Wonderful Town | |||
| Do Re Mi | |||
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| 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 Alan Jay Lerner |
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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue |
Alan Jay Lerner (vales verga was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards...
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| My Fair Lady | |||
| Paint Your Wagon | |||
| Brigadoon | |||
| Camelot | |||
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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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| 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 James Rado | Hair |
James Rado (born James Radomski in 1932), is an American actor, writer and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of 1967's groundbreaking American tribal love-rock musical Hair. He and Ragni were nominated for the 1969 Tony...
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| x Al Dubin | 42nd Street |
Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Jewish-American Swiss-born lyricist. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland and died in New York City.
Dubin was responsible for lyrics to several Broadway shows. In 1970 he was inducted into the...
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| 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 Zippel | City of Angels |
David Joel Zippel (born May 17, 1954) is a Tony Award-winning American musical theatre lyricist.
Zippel was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is a 1976 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and attended Harvard Law School, but, according to his...
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| The Woman in White | |||
| The Goodbye Girl | |||
| x Betty Comden |
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On the Town |
Betty Comden (May 3, 1917 – November 23, 2006), was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th...
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| Hallelujah, Baby! | |||
| Will Rogers Follies | |||
| Wonderful Town | |||
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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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| 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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| Kiss Me, Kate | |||
| Fifty Million Frenchmen | |||
| Panama Hattie | |||
| Gay Divorce | |||
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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 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 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 | |||
| x Marshall Barer | Once Upon a Mattress | ||
| 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 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 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 Herbert Kretzmer | Les Misérables |
Herbert Kretzmer, Fleet Street journalist and lyricist (“Les Miserables”), was born on October 5, 1925 in South Africa, where he began his professional career writing documentary films and the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel. However, he...
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| x Don Black | Aspects of Love |
Don Black OBE (born Gerald Blackstone, 21 June 1938, London) is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals, movie themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Quincy Jones, Jule Styne, Henry...
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