Cole Porter

Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Doğum	Cole Albert Porter; 9 Haziran 1891; Peru, Indiana, ABD
Ölüm	15 Ekim 1964 (73 yaşında); Santa Monica, Kaliforniya, ABD
Evlilik	Linda Lee Thomas (1919–1954)

Cole Albert Porter (9 Haziran 1891 – 15 Ekim 1964), Amerikalı besteci ve söz yazarı. Zengin bir ailenin çocuğu olarak Indiana'da dünyaya geldi. Otoriter dedesinin isteklerine karşı gelerek hukuk okumak yerine müzik eğitimi aldı. Yavaş bir başlangıcın ardından 1920'lerde başarı elde etmeye başladı ve 1930'larda Broadway müzikallerinin en önemli bestecilerinden biri oldu. Birçok başarılı Broadway bestecisinin aksine, aynı zamanda söz yazarıydı.

1937'de bindiği at devrilince bacakları ezildi ve hayatının geri kalanını engelli olarak geçirdi. Bacaklarının kesilmesine karşı çıktı ve tam 34 kere ameliyat olmak zorunda kaldı. 1940'lı yılların başında engelinin de verdiği etkiyle hit müzikaller çıkaramasa da, 1948 yılında “Kiss Me, Kate” müzikali ile en iyi müzikal dalında Tony Ödülü'nü kazandı.

Porter'ın diğer müzikallerinden bazıları Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes, Can-Can ve Silk Stockings. Başlıca hit şarkıları "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" ve "You're the Top".

g t d En İyi Orijinal Müzik Tony Ödülü
1947–1975	Street Scene by Kurt Weill (1947) Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter (1949) South Pacific by Richard Rodgers (1950) Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin (1951) No Strings by Richard Rodgers (1962) Oliver! by Lionel Bart (1963) Hello, Dolly! by Jerry Herman (1964) Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock ve Sheldon Harnick (1965) Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh ve Joe Darion (1966) Cabaret by John Kander ve Fred Ebb (1967) Hallelujah, Baby! by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, ve Adolph Green (1968) Company by Stephen Sondheim (1971) Follies by Stephen Sondheim (1972) A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim (1973) Gigi by Frederick Loewe ve Alan Jay Lerner (1974) The Wiz by Charlie Smalls (1975)
1976–2000	A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlisch ve Edward Kleban (1976) Annie by Charles Strouse ve Martin Charnin (1977) On the Twentieth Century by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1978) Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim (1979) Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber ve Tim Rice (1980) Woman of the Year by John Kander ve Fred Ebb (1981) Nine by Maury Yeston (1982) Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber ve T. S. Eliot (1983) La Cage aux Folles by Jerry Herman (1984) Big River by Roger Miller (1985) The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes (1986) Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, ve Alain Boublil (1987) Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (1988) Ödül verilmedi (1989) City of Angels by Cy Coleman ve David Zippel (1990) The Will Rogers Follies by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, ve Adolph Green (1991) Falsettos by William Finn (1992) Kiss of the Spider Woman by John Kander ve Fred Ebb / The Who's Tommy by Pete Townshend (1993) Passion by Stephen Sondheim (1994) Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, ve Christopher Hampton (1995) Rent by Jonathan Larson (1996) Titanic by Maury Yeston (1997) Ragtime by Stephen Flaherty ve Lynn Ahrens (1998) Parade by Jason Robert Brown (1999) Aida by Elton John ve Tim Rice (2000)
2001–günümüz	The Producers by Mel Brooks (2001) Urinetown by Mark Hollmann ve Greg Kotis (2002) Hairspray by Marc Shaiman ve Scott Wittman (2003) Avenue Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (2004) The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel (2005) The Drowsy Chaperone by Lisa Lambert ve Greg Morrison (2006) Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik ve Steven Sater (2007) In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2008) Next to Normal by Tom Kitt ve Brian Yorkey (2009) Memphis by David Bryan ve Joe DiPietro (2010) The Book of Mormon by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez ve Matt Stone (2011) Newsies by Alan Menken ve Jack Feldman (2012) Kinky Boots by Cyndi Lauper (2013) The Bridges of Madison County by Jason Robert Brown (2014) Fun Home by Jeanine Tesori ve Lisa Kron (2015) Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016) Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek ve Justin Paul (2017) The Band's Visit by David Yazbek (2018) Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell (2019) Ödül verilmedi (2020) A Christmas Carol by Christopher Nightingale (2021) Six by Toby Marlow ve Lucy Moss (2022) Kimberly Akimbo by Jeanine Tesori ve David Lindsay-Abaire (2023) Suffs by Shaina Taub (2024)