doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Maury Yeston

MAURY YESTON

  (1945 - )
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    n/a

Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer, lyricist, educator and musicologist. He is known for writing the music and lyrics to Broadway musicals, including Nine in 1982, and Titanic in 1997, both of which won Tony Awards for best musical and best score. He also won a Drama Desk Award for Nine. Yeston also wrote a significant amount of the music and most of the lyrics to the Tony-nominated musical Grand Hotel in 1989, which was nominated for best score. His musical version of the novel the Phantom of the Opera called Phantom (not to be confused with Andrew Lloyd Webber's version) has enjoyed numerous productions in the U.S. and around the world. He has also written a number of other Off-Broadway musicals, including Death Takes a Holiday; a song cycle entitledDecember Songs; a choral symphony; a Cello Concerto; and other pieces. Yeston serves on the Board of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also President of the Kleban Foundation, serves on the editorial boards of Musical Quarterly and the Kurt Weill Foundation Publication Project and on the advisory board of the Yale University Press Broadway Series. He was the Director of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshopin New York City for two decades beginning in 1982. - Wiki

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of Maury Yeston's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Death Takes a Holiday         Grand Hotel - the Musical         In the Beginning         Nine         Phantom, The         Titanic
Death Takes a Holiday

Death Takes a Holiday
In Death Takes a Holiday, it's just after World War I and the loneliest of souls arrives at an Italian villa disguised as a handsome young Prince, and for the first time experiences the joys and heartbreaks of life. The show began as an Alberto Casella play from the 1920s that was made into a much-loved 1934 film starring Fredric March as Death, disguised as a debonair nobleman. The original film was remade in 1998 as Meet Joe Black, starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins.

Notes:
Book By: Peter Stone And Thomas Meehan; Music And Lyrics By: Maury Yeston

1st Produced:
Laura Pels Theatre
111 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036     21 Jul 2011

Organisations:
Roundabout Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/6514/death-takes-a-holiday-musical   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Grand Hotel - the Musical

Grand Hotel - the Musical
version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel, set in Rome post-World War II instead of Berlin post-World War I, and the old man Kringelein has been made the focus of the action. In the musical he is an old scullery worker who, learning he hasn't long to live, takes his life savings and moves upstairs "where the halls are full of music"; singing requirements for this role are modest but female lead (an opera star) must sing well; good singers required for part of the Baron and the semi-prostitute

Notes:
Book by Luther Davis; Music by Robert Wright And George Forrest; Lyrics by Robert Wright And George Forrest; Additional music by Maury Yeston And Wally Harper; Additional lyrics by Maury Yeston; Based on "Grand Hotel" by Vicki Baum

1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theatre, (New York)     12 Nov 1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (61327) 1992

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical Comedy (book) Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

In the Beginning

Synopsis:
the first five books of the Bible.

Notes:
by David Hahn; Music And lyrics by Maury Yeston

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Nine

Nine
Based on Fellini's classic film 8 ½ , this spectacular musical delighted Broadway theatergoers in a hit revival in 2003 starring Antonio Banderas. Nine is the story of a celebrated film director Guido Contini and his attempts to come up with a plot for his next film as he is pursued by hordes of beautiful women, all clamoring to be loved by him and him alone. Flashbacks reveal the substance of his life-which will become the material for his next film: a musical version of the Casanova story. Nine is now a major motion picture from Rob Marshall, the acclaimed director of the 2002 film version of Chicago. Of the Broadway musical, Marshall said it is a sumptuous and emotional work that translates naturally to the film musical genre because of its seamless relationship between fantasy and reality. Composer and lyricist Maury Yeston worked on the film adaptation and created three new songs for the movie musical, which was released in December, 2009.

Notes:
Book by Arthur Kopit; Music by Maury Yeston; Adapted from the Italian by Mario Fratti. Based on Fellini's 8 ½. Winner! 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical. Winner! 2003 Tony Award for Best Revival of A Musical

1st Produced:
Waterford, Connecticut     1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1983   

Music:
Original Broadway recording: Sony (38235) 1982

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  22            Other:  4 boys (or 10m, 13f, 4 boys)

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Phantom, The

Phantom, The
Erik was born and was brought up in the catacombs underneath the Paris Opera House. His Father is Carriere, the owner of the Opera House. Erik is terribly disfigured and wears a mask. He hears a street girl singing - Christine and he tutors her. His Father sells the Opera House to Carlotta a singer with a terrible voice. Her singing offends Erik. With his Father gone Erik fears he will be captured and put in a freak show. the police arrive for him - the police chief tells his men to take Erik alive. Erik calls to his Father to help. Carriere steals a policeman's gun and shoots him

Notes:
by Arthur Kopit, music And lyrics by Maury Yeston. Based on "the Phantom Of the Opera" by Gaston LeRoux

1st Produced:
Theatre Under The Stars, Houston     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Studio cast recording: RCA (61660) 1992

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Titanic

Titanic
Titanic is truly an ensemble production as we see when we are introduced to the crew and voyagers in the first scene. In a series of songs and song fragments, we meet the owner/financier, the captain, the crew, and the passengers; we learn both how the Titanic came to be commissioned, built and provisioned as well as how the various individuals came to be standing on the Southampton dock on April 10, 1912. the scene effectively conveys the broad themes which underscore the show (especially the rigid social class structure in America and abroad and the economics of the time which fueled another major wave of immigration to the United States).

Notes:
story And book by Peter Stone, music And lyrics by Maury Yeston

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York     23 Apr 1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original Broadway cast: RCA (68834-2) 1997

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page