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3 Broadway Composers
3 Great Broadway Composers: Rogers & Hammerstein, Webber, Sondheim
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Attended Columbia University, then transferred to Institution of Musical Art (Now Juliard) | Richard Rogers |
| Put on the map with "Babes in Arms" | Richard Rogers |
| Dad was a famous Vaudeville producer and writer | Oscar Hammerstein III |
| Originally studied law at Columbia University but then switched his major | Oscar Hammerstein III |
| Put on the map with Show Boat | Oscar Hammerstein III |
| Both of these men wanted to make Green Grow the Lilies into a musical and got together and created Oklahoma! | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| Oklahoma! | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| Carousel | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| State Fair | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| south Pacific | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| The King and I | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| Cinderella (1957 movie starring July Andrews) | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| Flower Drum Song | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| Sound of Music | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| First to write serious musicals | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| Into "formula plays" | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| daughter composed Once Upon a Matress | Rogers |
| style: Big ensemble numbers | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| Style: Huge range, same tunes over and over and over, stop in music, big last note | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Born in London to a violinist (mom) and a composer (dad) | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Started writing music at age 6, first published song at age 9 | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| 1st big hit: Joseph and the Technicolor Coat | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Jesus Christ Superstar | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Evita | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Cats | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Song & Dance | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Starlight Express | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Sunset Boulevard | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Has 1 golden globe, 1 academy award, 3 Grammy's, and 6 Tony's | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Tony- Best Original Score- Evita | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Tony- Best Musical, BOS- Cats | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Tony- Best Musical- Phantom | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Tony- BM, BOS- Sunset Boulevard | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Wrote 2 of the longest running shows on Broadway: Cats (21 years) and Phantom (22 years) | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| One of the Top 100 richest Britons | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Best friend growing up was Jimmy Hammerstein, son of Oscar Hammerstein | Stephen Sondheim |
| hammerstein took in_____ as an apprentice and was like a father to him | Stephen Sondheim |
| Big Break: Lyrics for West Side Story | Stephen Sondheim |
| West Side Story | Stephen Sondheim |
| Gypsy | Stephen Sondheim |
| Do I Hear a Waltz? | Stephen Sondheim |
| A Funny Thing Happened onthe Way to the Forum | Stephen Sondheim |
| Company | Stephen Sondheim |
| A Little Night Music | Stephen Sondheim |
| Sweeney Todd | Stephen Sondheim |
| Sunday in the Park with George | Stephen Sondheim |
| Into the Woods | Stephen Sondheim |
| Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the park with George | Stephen Sondheim |
| academy Award for Best Song for "Sooner or Later" | Stephen Sondheim |
| Tony- Funny Thing- Best Musical | Stephen Sondheim |
| Tony- Company- Best Score Best Lyrics | Stephen Sondheim |
| Tony- Best Score- Follies | Stephen Sondheim |
| Tony- Best Score- Little Night Music | Stephen Sondheim |
| Tony- BS- Sweeney Todd | Stephen Sondheim |
| 2008 Lifetime Achievemnent Award | Stephen Sondheim |
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