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| x Marvin Laird | |||
| x Melissa Morris | Evil Dead the Musical | ||
| x Lisa Lambert | The Drowsy Chaperone | ||
| x Jean Briquet | Adele | ||
| x Timothy Gray | High Spirits | ||
| x William Roy | |||
| x Greg Morrison | The Drowsy Chaperone | ||
| x Bill Francoeur | |||
| x Dove Attia. | |||
| x Marian Grudeff | Baker Street | ||
| x Robert J. Saferstein | Oedipus for Kids | ||
| x Frank Cipolla | Evil Dead the Musical | ||
| x Henry Krieger | Dreamgirls | ||
| x Mel Marvin | How the Grinch Stole Christmas the Musical | ||
| x Nell Benjamin | |||
| x Raymond Jessel | Baker Street | ||
| x Robert Dahdah | |||
| x George Reinblatt | Evil Dead the Musical | ||
| x Bill Francoeur | |||
| x Elliot Lawrence | |||
| x Sylvester Levay | Rebecca |
Sylvester Levay (originally Lévay Szilveszter) is a Hungarian composer. He was born 16 May 1945 in Subotica (Szabadka), in the North Bačka District of Vojvodina, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), his name in English is pronounced similarly to "Lave-ah-ee."...
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| Mozart! | |||
| Elisabeth | |||
| x George David Weiss | First Impressions |
George David Weiss (born April 9, 1921, New York City, New York) is an American songwriter and President of the Songwriters Guild of America.
He was born in a Jewish family, and originally planned a career as a lawyer or accountant, but out of a...
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| Mr. Wonderful | |||
| Maggie Flynn | |||
| x Robert Goldman | First Impressions | ||
| x Glenn Paxton | First Impressions | ||
| x George Whitefield Chadwick |
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Everywoman |
George Whitefield Chadwick (November 13, 1854 – April 4, 1931) was an American composer. Along with Horatio Parker and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what can be called the New England School of American composers of the late...
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| x Jean-Baptiste Lully |
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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme |
Jean-Baptiste de Lully (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃batist də lyˈli]; Italian: Giovanni Battista di Lulli) (November 28, 1632 – March 22, 1687), was a French composer of Italian birth, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of...
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| x Milton Schafer | Drat! The Cat! | ||
| x Mark Charlap | Peter Pan |
Mark ("Moose") Charlap (December 19, 1928 – July 8, 1974) was a Jewish-American Broadway composer. Born Morris Isaac Charlip in Philadelphia, he was best known for "Peter Pan" (1954), for which Carolyn Leigh wrote the lyrics. The idea to do the show...
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| Whoop-Up | |||
| The Conquering Hero | |||
| x Carolyn Leigh |
Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway, movies, and popular songs.
Leigh graduated from Queens College and New York University (both New York) and worked as a copy writer for radio stations and...
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| x Frederic Loewe | My Fair Lady |
Frederick Loewe (born German: Friedrich Löwe, June 10, 1901, Vienna – February 14, 1988, Palm Springs) was a Tony Award-winning Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair...
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| Paint Your Wagon | |||
| Brigadoon | |||
| Camelot | |||
| What's Up? | |||
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| x Jerry Bock |
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Fiddler on the Roof |
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...
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| The Rothschilds | |||
| She Loves Me | |||
| Baker Street | |||
| Fiorello! | |||
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| x Charles Strouse | Applause |
Charles Strouse (born 7 June 1928) is a three-time Tony Award-winning American composer and lyricist.
Strouse was born and raised in New York City, the son of Ira and Ethel (Newman) Strouse. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Strouse studied...
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| It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman | |||
| All-American | |||
| Annie | |||
| Bye Bye Birdie | |||
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| x Elton John |
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Aida |
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.
In his four-decade career, John has sold more than 200 million records, making him one of the most successful artists...
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| Billy Elliot the Musical | |||
| The Lion King | |||
| Lestat | |||
| x Frank Osmond Carr |
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In Town |
Frank Osmond Carr (23 April 1858 – 29 August 1916), known as F. Osmond Carr, was an English composer who wrote the music for some of the earliest musical comedies.
Carr was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. His parents were George Saxton Carr, a...
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| x Jay Kuo |
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Insignificant Others |
Lee Jay Kuo (born on March 28, 1968) is an American theatrical composer, lyricist and playwright.
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| Homeland | |||
| x Damon Intrabartolo | Bare, a Pop Opera |
Damon Intrabartolo is an American composer, orchestrator and conductor. He attended the University of Southern California and departed before graduation to work with John Ottman on The Usual Suspects.
Damon has collaborated with Ottman for 13 years...
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| x George Gershwin |
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Of Thee I Sing |
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...
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| Crazy for You | |||
| Girl Crazy | |||
| Oh, Kay! | |||
| Let 'Em Eat Cake | |||
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| x Meredith Willson |
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The Music Man |
Robert Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best...
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| Here's Love | |||
| The Unsinkable Molly Brown | |||
| x Lorenzo Ferrero |
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La cena delle beffe |
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...
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| Nebbia di latte | |||
| Maschere | |||
| Lontano dagli occhi | |||
| Mozart a Recanati | |||
| x Walter Slaughter | Alice in Wonderland |
Walter Alfred Slaughter (17 February 1860 – 2 March 1908) was an English conductor and composer of musical comedy, comic opera and children's shows.
Slaughter was born and raised in London. He studied music under Georges Jacobi, the musical director...
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| Gentleman Joe | |||
| The French Maid | |||
| x Pete Townshend |
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The Who's Tommy |
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (pronounced /ˈtaʊnzənd/; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His...
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| x Vincent Youmans | No, No, Nanette |
Vincent Youmans (September 27, 1898 - April 5, 1946) was an American popular composer and Broadway producer.
Vincent Millie Youmans was born in New York City on September 27, 1898 and grew-up on Central Park West on the site where the Mayflower...
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| Take a Chance | |||
| x Sigmund Romberg |
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Bombo |
Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer, best-known for his operettas.
Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Nagykanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserlich und königlich...
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| The Desert Song | |||
| Rosalie | |||
| My Maryland | |||
| Princess Flavia | |||
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| x Eubie Blake |
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Shuffle Along |
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of...
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| Eubie! | |||
| Black and Blue | |||
| x Noble Sissle |
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Shuffle Along |
Noble Sissle (July 10, 1889, Indianapolis, Indiana – December 17, 1975, Tampa, Florida) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright.
Noble Sissle sang several vocals on the last album recorded by James Reese Europe,...
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| x Harry Tierney |
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Kid Boots |
Harry Austin Tierney (May 21, 1890 – March 22, 1965) was a successful American composer of musical theatre, best known for long-running hits such as Irene (1919), Broadway's longest-running show of the era (620 performances), Kid Boots (1923) and...
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| Irene | |||
| x Ray Henderson | Follow Thru |
Ray Henderson (December 1, 1896 – December 31, 1970), was an American songwriter.
Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley. He was one third of a successful songwriting...
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| Good News | |||
| Hold Everything! | |||
| Flying High | |||
| x Karel Čapek |
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The Makropulos Affair |
Karel Čapek (pronounced [ˈkarɛl ˈtʃapɛk] (help·info)) (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first...
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| x Tony Hart |
Tony Hart (born Anthony J. Cannon (July 25, 1855 – November 4, 1891) was an American actor, comedian and singer.
He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is best known for working with Ned Harrigan, in the late 19th century. Together they became...
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| x Lin-Manuel Miranda |
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In the Heights |
Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is a Tony Award winning composer and lyricist, and a Tony Award nominated actor. He is most famous for writing and starring in the Broadway musical In the Heights, which opened on Broadway at the Richard...
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| x Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Thamos, König in Ägypten |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed...
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| x John Lennon |
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Lennon |
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed...
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| x Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger |
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The Masque of Blackness |
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (b. Greenwich, c. 1575; bur. Greenwich, March 11, 1628) was an English composer and viol player of Italian descent. He straddles the line between the Renaissance and Baroque eras. He was the illegitimate son of the...
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| x André Previn | Coco |
André George Previn KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin, April 6, 1929, Berlin, Germany) is a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is a winner of several Academy Awards for his film work and Grammy Awards for his recordings.
Previn...
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| A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green | |||
| The Good Companions | |||
| x Jean Sibelius |
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Kuolema |
Jean Sibelius ( pronunciation (help·info)) (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity.
The core of Sibelius's...
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| x Nacio Herb Brown | Singin' in the Rain |
Nacio Herb Brown born Ignacio Herb Brown (February 22, 1896 – September 28, 1964) was an American writer of popular songs, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s.
Brown was born in Deming, New Mexico. In 1901...
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| Take a Chance | |||
| x Harold Fraser-Simson |
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Toad of Toad Hall |
Harold Fraser-Simson (15 August 1872 – 19 January 1944), was an English composer of light music, including songs and the scores to musical comedies. His most famous musical was the World War I hit, The Maid of the Mountains, and he later set...
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| x Tom Kitt | Next to Normal |
Tom Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and musician. For his score for the musical Next to Normal, he was awarded the Tony Award as well as being nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and winning a 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award....
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| High Fidelity | |||
| x Erik Satie |
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Le Piège de Méduse |
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.
Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before...
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| x Nick Blaemire | Glory Days | ||
