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Maury Yeston Needs To Be On Broadway?
#25re: Maury Yeston Needs To Be On Broadway?
Posted: 8/11/07 at 2:23pmWhile not really "broadway" material, I do love "December Songs" as well as everything Yeston has written. I'm certainly intrigued by "Death Takes a Holiday," but I'm also looking forward to anything he works on.
#26re: Maury Yeston Needs To Be On Broadway?
Posted: 8/11/07 at 2:52pm
DECEMBER SONGS is a beautiful song cycle, "Please Let's Not Even Say Hello," "My Grandmother's Love Letters," and "I Had a Dream About You" are all powerful numbers somewhat reminiscent of Yeston's most astonishing work.
I love Yeston's work in NINE and the songs he wrote for GRAND HOTEL are just as good (some even better) than Wright and Forrest's songs, plus none of his songs feel out of place with the rest of the score.
I would love to see him adapt Cunningham's THE HOURS or Tennessee Williams' THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS.STONE. Now, as much as I love Yeston's work I think he needs a good director to work with which I think was the problem he faced in TITANIC. I don't think it's coincidence that his best work has come from his collaborations with Tommy Tune.
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#27re: Maury Yeston Needs To Be On Broadway?
Posted: 8/11/07 at 4:11pm
Has anyone here ever heard anything from his version of "La Cage Aux Folles"?
I can say from personal experience that his score to "In The Beginning" (i.e. "History Loves Company" i.e. "One, Two, Three, Four, Five") is, if not great, pretty good and it is tied to what is quite possibly the WORST book ever written for a musical.
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#28re: Maury Yeston Needs To Be On Broadway?
Posted: 8/11/07 at 4:35pm
His version of La Cage was called "the Queen of Basin St"
Hopefully it makes it to Broadway someday but I kind of doubt it
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