Yeston's Next Show

[OOTI2004]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 8:07pm

So I just read an interview with Maury Yeston and he stated that his next work is Death Takes a Holiday which he would like to bring to Broadway. Does anyone know anything about this, or if it is even still in the works, as I think the interview was a couple years old. Just wondering though, he is one of my favorite composers.

[OOTI2004]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 4:13pm

anyone?

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 4:33pm

Well the name sounds dumb.

[goofy108]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 4:36pm

Maury Yeston is a man?

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 4:42pm

Yes, just like Maury Povich.

I've been a big fan of his music for a while now. He writes music that's filled with meaning, rarely resorting to the empty charm song.

Although he did write a little gem of one in "I don't wanna rock n roll no more"

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 4:50pm

I believe he's doing a show with Antonio Banderas....Don Juan I think.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 6:20pm

Would love to see his Goya produced or even his take on La Cage The Queen Of Basin St

Once POTO closes, he should bring his version to Broadway

[Zachary Goldfarb]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 6:56pm

He's been working on this show for years - it's not a Broadway show.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 7:06pm

Met him twice & nice both times

He is very unassuming. Last time he was eating a big cookie at the intermission at the last performance of Marie Christine.
Asked him about the emnity directed at Wildhorn & he did not understand it. He said Wildhorn was talented. I would take what he said over critics in the media & on this board as he knows how hard it is to write music

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 7:08pm

That "dumb" name was a successful play and film. (And the source of the less successful remake, Meet Joe Black).

[jv92]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 7:14pm

Maury Yeston is one of theatre's most versitile (sp?), talented composers and I look forward to whatever he does next.

[tourboi]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 8:02pm

Please NO to his PHANTOM!

it has to be the most poorly written show I've seen that's been successful. The score, and book are completely out of tone and touch with its source material.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 8:31pm

I completely disagree with your assessment of Yeston's Phantom score. In fact, it's far more in line with the opera comique that was part of French music's heritage.

ALW's phantom owes much more to German and Italian opera than French opera.

And he uses solfege syllables as lyrics that actually are the pitches that the character is singing, thank god. Its a pet peeve of mine.

That aside, Yeston's score for Phantom is far more personal and less grandiose and I find that I like it more, at least its well written and original.

I wrote a long post a while back about the merits of ALW's phantom too, so im not a hater. They both have their merits.

[Dibbledl01]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 8:35pm

agreed, I enjoy ALW and Yeston's Phantom. But I think everyone has to agree that the two are COMPLETELY different works.

[OOTI2004]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 9:31pm

I don't think Yeston's Phantom will ever go to Broadway even 20 years after Webber's closes. He has stated that he likes the fact that the show has achieved success in a place other than on Broadway as it shows that theater is more than just that. He said that it was actually a good thing that Webber's beat his show to NY and it is not his plan to take it there.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 1:03am

It could win a Pulitzer and it'd still be a dumb name.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 3:30am

I adore Maury Yeston. I hope he brings us something new very soon.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 8:11am

I loved "Titanic" and I loved "Grand Hotel". I've never heard "Nine" and I've never heard "Phantom". Good luck with it, I'm a little surprised he hasn't had more on

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 1/22/07 at 3:28pm

This is another Peter Stone originated show that someone else is going to have to finish. They started working on it after "Titanic."

Maury Yeston is too good of a writer to have written so little.

Though he did spend a lot of time trying to keep his Bible musical from dying. It started out with a book by Larry Gelbart as "One, Two, Three, Four, Five", was called "History Loves Company" for a while "In The Beginning: the Greatest Story Never Told".

I'm guessing that Maury and Larry were writing two different shows. The score is light and bubbily and I can't imagine Larry Gelbart writing light and bubbily. The new book by someone whose name escapes me is pure dreck. In lieu of actual good jokes, it give you bad puns.