A former classmate has discovered Stephen Sondheim, which is all to the good. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street certainly gets my nomination for Best Musical of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. OGIC might also want to try some of the post-Sondheim experimental composers/lyricists, like Adam Guettel (Floyd Collins in particular); Audra McDonald's Way Back to Paradise
offers a handy overview of new composers.
Thank you!!! I was just trying to remember Floyd Collins the other day--I heard some of the music on a local theater review program at least a year ago, and it's been haunting me ever since, but I couldn't remember the name of the show.
Posted by: MJ | April 02, 2005 at 06:32 AM