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| Stephen Sondheim |
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Film actor | West Side Story |
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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| Film music contributor | Gypsy: A Musical Fable | |||
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| Tim Rice | Film writer | Chess |
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born November 10, 1944) is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award winning lyricist, author, radio presenter and television gameshow panelist.
Rice was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, and was educated at Aldwickbury school, St Albans School and Lancing College. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and...
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| Film music contributor | Aida | |||
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| Musical Artist | Beauty and the Beast | |||
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| Christopher Bond | Topic | Evil Dead the Musical |
Christopher Bond (fl. 1970s) 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.
A noted fan of horror/comedy (as well as the rock band KISS), Bond has also written and directed Evil Dead: The Musical.
Bond, Christopher
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| Adlin Aman Ramlee | Topic | Puteri Gunung Ledang | ||
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Chen Shi-Zheng (陈士爭) (born 1963 in Changsha, Hunan, China) is an acclaimed Chinese theatre and opera director now based in the United States.
His early training in China was in traditional Chinese opera. He went to study at New York University in 1989.
Chen's directorial debut film, Dark Matter, was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's operatic stage...
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| Charlie Smalls | Musical Artist | The Wiz | ||
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| Jim Steinman |
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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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| Lee Adams | Topic | 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 Master's from Columbia University.
Adams won Tony Awards in 1961 for Bye Bye Birdie and in 1970 for Applause. In addition, he wrote the lyrics for All American, Golden Boy, It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, Bring Back Birdie, and A...
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| Theatrical Lyricist | Applause | |||
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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.
Betty Comden was born Elizabeth Cohen in NYC on May 3, 1915 (see , ) although many sources incorrectly cite 1919 as her year of birth. She is still alive (aged 91 as of 2006). Adolph Green was born on December 2, 1914 in The Bronx, New York, and died ...
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| Oscar Hammerstein II |
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Topic | Allegro |
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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| Person | Flower Drum Song | |||
| Film writer | Show Boat | |||
| Film music contributor | Me and Juliet | |||
| Deceased Person | Carmen Jones | |||
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| Timothy Mason | Topic |
Timothy Wright Mason (March 2 1940–March 5 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 1971–1985 and was twice married. He helped to found the left-wing journal History Workshop Journal. Mason specialized in the social history of the Third Reich, especially that of the working-class. Mason's most famous book was his 1975 work Arbeiterklasse und...
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| Fred Wise | Topic | 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 did many of the songs sung by Elvis Presley in his movie.
Many of his songs were collaborations with Kay Twomey and Ben Weisman, sometimes with additional collaborators. (see "Wooden Heart" and "In the Beginning.")
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| Lorenz Hart |
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Topic | 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", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", and "My Funny Valentine".
Hart was born in Harlem to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Columbia University, where a friend introduced him to...
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| Eric Idle |
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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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| Jeff Marx |
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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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| Marsha Norman | Topic | The Secret Garden |
Marsha Norman (b. September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer and novelist. She won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She also wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden, for which she won a Tony Award, and The Red Shoes, as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Purple.
Norman was born into a Christian fundamentalist household in Louisville, Kentucky. As a child she was not allowed to play...
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| Sheldon Harnick | Topic | Fiddler on the Roof |
Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 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. One of these, "The Merry Minuet", was popularized by the Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him.
(In each case the composer of the music is given in parentheses.)
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| Richard M. Sherman |
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Film music contributor | Over Here! |
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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| Gerome Ragni | Topic | 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 rock musical Hair.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of ten children from a poor Italian family, though others say the birth took place in Canada. When he was 5 years old, he began painting crazy, beautiful pictures all over the walls of his family's house and his parents couldn't stop him. Even then, he believed he was a...
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| Alain Boublil | Topic | 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. It debuted in 1973 in Paris. The composer was Claude-Michel Schonberg, with whom Alain has since collaborated on a number of successful projects, including Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. Les Misérables first opened in Paris in 1980. On October 8...
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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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| The Beach Boys |
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Musical Artist | Good Vibrations |
The Beach Boys are an American rock and roll band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of surfing, girls, and cars. Brian Wilson's growing creative ambitions later transformed them into a more artistically innovative group that earned critical praise and influenced many later musicians.
The group initially comprised singer-musician-composer Brian Wilson, his brothers, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love,...
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| Queen |
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Film actor | We Will Rock You |
Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury, and drummer Roger Taylor, with bass guitarist John Deacon joining the following year. Queen rose to prominence during the 1970s and are arguably Britain's most successful band of the past three decades.
The band is noted for their musical diversity, multi-layered arrangements, vocal harmonies, and incorporation of audience participation into their live performances. Their 1985 Live...
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| Ben Elton | Topic | We Will Rock You |
Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. He became a stand-up comedian and comedy writer shortly after leaving university in 1980, and was a central figure in the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s. More recently he has achieved success writing lyrics for and producing musicals, and as an author.
Elton was born in Catford, London, the son of an English teacher mother and the physicist and educational researcher Lewis Elton. He is the nephew of the...
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| Brian Wilson |
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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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| Jerry Herman |
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Film music contributor | La Cage aux Folles |
Jerry Herman (born Gerald Herman on July 10, 1931 in New York City) is an American composer/lyricist of the Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles.
Raised in Jersey City by musically-inclined parents, Herman learned to play piano at an early age, and the three frequently attended Broadway musicals. His father, Harry, was a gym teacher and in the summer worked in the Catskill Mountains hotels. His mother, Ruth,...
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| Jason Robert Brown |
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Musical Artist | 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 and Jeanine Tesori, among others), Brown's music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics. An accomplished pianist, Brown has often served as music director, conductor, orchestrator and pianist for his own productions.
Brown grew up in...
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