ok...since there has been mucho mentions/discussions on the 'Greatest Male Songwriter' thread regarding composers/musical theatre writers/lyrisists�and the like, why not give them their -own- forum, eh? :)
so....yeah.....thus far here are my picks:
~stephen sondheim. 'a little night music' melt. 'into the woods' good cwazy fun.
~irving berlin. you can't just think about 'god belss america' here, people. he has done SO much more and -so- much better than that!
~george and ira gershwin. the power-brothers!
~richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein II.� though they -do- lose points for 'flower drum song'.�but 'carousel' is one fine work o' musicality.
~also put rodgers and hart in there.� just dinna wanna take away-o oscar's thunder by mentioning them all on the same mention� :) {theatregeek}
~kander and ebb. chicago. cabaret. mmmmmmm.
~alan menken and howard ashman.� 'somewhere that's green'.� *melt*{and a whole lots more}
~johann sebastian bach �fo sho.
~wolfgang amadeus mozart.�
{the two original�3-name divas� :)� }
~george m cohan
and...lest y'all stone me......
~sir andrew lloyd webber.� coz....-some- of his stuff's good.� i mean....i think 'evita' is one of his best....'aspects of love' is also great.� son't just think of the cheezyness of 'cats' and the perceived overblowing' of 'phantom'....�
again...sure i missed more that i'll be upset aboot, but, again...there's always more postin to be done� :)