Also credited on7 works
The Full Monty
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Band Visit
Tootsie
the-bands-visit
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Roommate
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In the literature8 passages
- Guettel knew enough to turn it down but made a suggestion that turned out to be an inspired one: David Yazbek.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Adam Guettel, however, said no when asked to write the score. He suggested non-theater composer-lyricist David Yazbek, who not only agreed but also provided one of the strongest musical theater debuts in years.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Another new voice, David Yazbek, writes both words and music and is adept at texturing his scores with touches of pastiche to widen their reach. Each of Yazbek’s three Broadway scores was drawn, like Millie , from a film, but Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) is an exhibition piece on how rich a musical-comedy score can be. Yazbek’s first sh…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
- Even musical comedy now goes dark, or at least serious. David Yazbek’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010) could easily have been a zany show, based as it is on the film by Pedro Almodóvar, one of the zaniest of directors, with a passion for the ridiculous. At that, his Women includes plenty of impedient screwballs, and even…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
- The exceptions to this one-hit trend are Stephen Schwartz, Elton John and David Yazbek, who have brought numerous contemporary pop musicals to the Broadway stage. Following Godspell (1971), Schwartz penned successful Broadway musicals – Pippin (1972), The Magic Show (1974) – and animated film musicals (Pocahontas , lyrics, 1995; The Hunch…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
- Having been recorded by a number of popular groups and the composer of a number of scores for television, David Yazbek came to musical theatre in 2000 by adapting for the stage the 1997 British hit film The Full Monty . Teaming up with veteran librettist Terrence McNally, the stage musical ran for 770 performances. Yazbek returned to Broa…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
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