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| re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders | |
| Posted by: dlevy 03:49 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders - Seth Christenfeld 03:42 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Is the question of whether the winners wrote more shows, wrote more shows that went on to Broadway, or wrote more shows that won Best Musical? Because there are different answers to all three, particularly with some of the more recent winners like MEMPHIS (has written more shows, none have come to Broadway yet) and ONCE (has not written more shows, to my knowledge)... And then there's Rupert Holmes, who hasn't written the score for a musical since DROOD, but has written books (and additional lyrics), not to mention straight plays. | |
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| re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders | |
| Posted by: Seth Christenfeld (tabula-rasa@verizon.net) 04:19 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders - dlevy 03:49 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Rupert Holmes has, in fact, written/cowritten two musical scores since Drood--an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray (Patti LuPone recorded "My Son" years ago--although the show remains unproduced, there was a reading of it in NYC in 2002 or thereabouts) and The Nutty Professor (Marvin Hamlisch's music, but Holmes wrote the lyrics). (He also began work at one point on a musical titled Swing, which he abandoned and eventually recycled into a terrific novel of the same name, which included a CD with several pieces of music that figured into the plot--one of which, oddly enough, was based on a cut song from Drood.) In the case of Once, the primary writers didn't even really contribute to the stage version--the only completely new song, "Abandoned in Bandon," was written by other writers, and while there were songs by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová that were in the musical but not in the film, they were taken from their pop work and not newly written. Seth, knower of more things |
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| re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 04:08 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders - dlevy 03:49 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| In the case of the 4 examples I listed, I meant to specify composer-lyricists of Best Musicals who never wrote another show. Thanks to posts by Seth, Alan and JohnPopa, I'm finding out about projects I've never heard of. And were never produced. (By the way, Smalls, Miller and Larson also won the Tony for Best Score; there wasn't such a Tony in Edwards' season.) |
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| re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders | |
| Posted by: bearcat 04:10 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders - WaymanWong 04:08 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Promises, Promises | |
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| re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders | |
| Posted by: bearcat 04:21 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders - bearcat 04:10 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| interesting that 1776 and Promises Promises were written by songwriters for whom these were their only Bway shows (and don't you think PP was the expected winner for the best musical Tony 1776 received) (I know Bacharach has noted he was finished with Bway because of his lack of control over the material) |
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| re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 04:37 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders - bearcat 04:21 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| I think Bacharach also didn't like the idea that the performance, being live, could change slightly from show to show, unlike a recording where it was captured to his specifications. It's kind of sad and bewildering in a way that he couldn't really enjoy having a smash hit on Broadway. | |
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| re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders | |
| Posted by: dlevy 04:07 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony-winning Best Musicals: One-hit wonders - PlayWiz 04:37 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Of course, Bacharach's Some Lovers (written with Steven Sater) could take him off this list. | |
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