Word: yeston
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...showcasing a new generation of downtown talents, like Rent's Jonathan Larson or Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk's Savion Glover, this season could pass for a Friars Club reunion of old Broadway tunesmiths, with Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity), John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret), Maury Yeston (Nine) and Leslie Bricusse (Stop the World--I Want to Get Off) all back on the boards...
Perhaps the most curious Titanic project is a Broadway musical planned for this spring and titled, inevitably, Titanic (no exclamation point). "This isn't going to be The Love Boat," insists composer and lyricist Maury Yeston. The show has been the butt of Broadway jokes, but Yeston contends that the Titanic lends itself perfectly to musical theater. "Part of the story is hubris, part is profoundly human," he explains. "This is the stuff of musical theater: people are so moved they can no longer speak. They are forced to sing." Or sink...
Other men selected to the Alpha chapter were Samuel M. Brown, Sumit K. Daftuar, Edward J. Han, Paul Li, Frank A. Pasquale, Andrea G. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Zachary S. Taylor, Ramin Toloui-Tehrani, Felix T. Wu, Yong Yeow Y.Yeoh and Jake S. Yeston...
...message administrators project is research first, lectures second. Students suffer as a result. In the long run, academic fields suffer as well, because jaded professors fail to usher talented new minds into the subject. The system is both harmful and counterproductive. Jake Yeston...
...There's a current fascination with disfigurement," Yeston says, "not only of the face but of the soul. The Phantom is the outsider, the Steppenwolf. In many ways he captures a central irony of our times: it's the one who has the imperfect appearance who has a kind of moral perfection." The superiority of the wounded: it is a metaphor that speaks -- no, it sings -- to every loser in love or in life...