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re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES...

Posted by:	ryhog 09:30 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to:	re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - Chromolume 09:04 pm EDT 03/16/14

The tougher question would be if you add "under 80." As asked though, I guess I'd say Sondheim, Kander, Herman. Maybe a couple more out there if I think harder, but I think you can see the problem. Reluctantly, probably Schwartz and Menken, and maybe Shaiman and Lopez. Here is another way of asking approximately the same question: if you approach someone who isn't "into" musical theatre the way a lot of folks here are to name a JRB song, or even identify it if they hear it (without being pegged to him) what would it be? My intention is not to pick on JRB per se, but to examine the prospects of these composers vis a vis someone like Charles Wuorinen.

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