The Sunday Giveaway: 2 Tickets to Bring It On!
Many, many years ago, I tried to get the rights to Bring It On.
I thought it would make a great musical . . . it had music, rhythm and choreography built into its competitive West Side Story like plot. Add that to the strength of its pre-existing brand, and I saw big potential.
Obviously, so did the Producers of the movie because they kept the rights themselves and this fall, Bring It On: The Musical debuts at the Ahmanson in LA. (I still have the rejection letter somewhere.)
And one lucky reader on the West Coast (or East Coast reader who is too excited to wait until this touring production comes to a theater near him/her) is going to see Bring It On: The Musical for free!
This week, we’ve got two tickets to the Jeff Whitty/Tom Kitt/Lin-Manuel Miranda/Amanda Green musical to give away, and here’s how we’re going to do it:
The Producers of Bring It On took the inspired yet unconventional path of hiring two different sets of composer/lyricists for the two different types of musical “voices” they wanted in the show. And they were lucky enough to get some of the most gifted CLs working in the game today.
So riddle me this, readers . . . What two Composer-Lyricists would you like to see work together on a musical? Comment below with your response (email subscribers click here), and I’ll pick a winner at random.
Ready? Ok! BRING IT!
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Gary Adler (Altar Boyz) and Green Day
Jeanine Tesori (music) and Sarah Ruhl (lyrics).
Jeanine Tesori has a history of working with established playwrights on their first project as lyricist (Tony Kushner, David Lindsay-Abaire). Sarah Ruhl isn’t a lyricist, but she started out as a poet. I love her plays and I am often telling people to read her plays after they see them because the stage directions are phenomenal. I would love to be able to see some of these stage directions translated into lyrics.
(In the contest realm of all this, my mother lives in Los Angeles I would love to add to her theatre-going experiences by sending her to see this musical.)
I would LOVE to see Barry Keating and Lynn Ahrens do something together! The possibilities could be endless!!! ;o)
My dream musical would be to see what would happen if Paul Michael Gordon (Daddy Long Legs, Emma, Jane Eyre) (music) and Sir Paul McCartney (lyrics) wrote a musical together. Wouldn’t THAT be beautiful! Or they could go back and forth between music and lyrics!
-Also very excited about Bring it On and to see how they will combine music and lyrics into this physical, athletic story.
Ahrens and Flaherty working opposite Maltby and Shire, on the material in The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Can I say Jim Steinman twice?
I would LITERALLY chop off an arm to see Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim (yes, Lenny would have to come back to life…) working alongside Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin.
Can you even imagine what in the heck that musical concoction would be!?!?!
Officer Krupke meets Elle Woods, with an odd pop rock beat alternating between 6/8 and 3/4
Need I say anything more…
Stephen Schwartz and Stephen Sondheim
Or Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim
Or the Avenue Q team with Maury Yeston
Or Stephen Schwartz and Adam (Light in the Piazza) Guettel
Danny Elfman and either Stephen Schwartz
John Williams and Stephen Sondheim. 🙂
Mostly because they are my favorites, but also just imagine epic Williams’ music with the cleverness of Sondheim sprinkled on top. I’d buy that album!
marvin hamlish and burt bachrach
The next two persons I’d love to hear work together are Book & Lyricist: Bryan David
and
Composer: Brandon Kress.
Wait, I can…
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Composer/Lyricist 1: Stephen Sondheim/Stephen Sondheim AND Composer/Lyricist 2: Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
Jason Robert Brown and Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik with Jason Robert Brown. That would be awesome!
ha, I didn’t even see Liel Z’s response til just now. I say we make it happen!
Duncan Sheik and Tom Kitt.
I would love to see Cy Coleman(if he were still alive) and Bill Russell(Sideshow). I think that would make a dynamic duo. Plus I’m really big on combining something modern with something catchy. I think that would be ideal.
I’d have to say, I’d love to see Sondheim and Webber. I wasn’t going to be so obvious but that but that is the first pairing that came to mind!!
Do they have to be alive? If not, I ‘d love to see Oscar Hammerstein collaborate with either Betty Comden or Stephen Schwartz. That would be amazing!
How about Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeff Marx…could be interesting
Frank Wildhorn and Laurence O’Keefe. Ha! Could be interesting?
Mel Brooks and Elton John–funny lyrics and fabulous music–Do I hear “Tony,Tony,Tony?”
Ahrens and Flaherty working on another great musical like Ragtime, one of my all-time favourites, so glad that Ragtime is the featured show at the Shaw Festival in Ontario next season–they did a brilliant job on Mack and Mabel a few years back
Me (John thomas Oaks) and Sam Holtzapple.
Me (John thomas Oaks) and David Cornue.
Me (John thomas Oaks) and my brother, Amos Oaks.
Sorry. Got carried away there.
Sammy Buck and Dan Aquisto
Clay Zambo and Sean Hartley
If we are picking a musical writing dream team, I would choose Lin-Manuel Miranda and the late Jonathan Larson. Now that would be a terrific team.
Georgia Stitt and Jason Robert Browne – their walking talking collaboration is gorgeous !
One time and one time only – Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Schwartz!
There have been very few times when I’ve gone to a musical knowing very little about it and being so joyously surprised. URINETOWN and AVENUE Q were two such musicals. Esp. AVENUE Q. It was the first time in a decade that I can recall such an electric buzzzz among the audience members at the intermission. There was such a palpable happiness about what we had just seen and a real chomping-at-the-bit anticipation of returning for Act 2. Everyone was talking, laughing and all-in-all fabulously wowed. URINETOWN was equally unexpected fun. So Jeff Marx/Robert Lopez and Mark Hollman/Greg Kotis working together would be a hot ticket for me! And for an extra treat, add a little Steven Trask (HEDWIG)!!
Since my two dream teams have already formed Lopez/Parker and Kitt/Miranda, I propose two new ones:
Jason Robert Brown & Leonard Cohen
or
Jason Robert Brown & Joss Whedon (Dr. Horrible fame)
I think Michael John Lachiusa and Lin-Manuel Miranda would make an interesting pair.