Artist Profile
Composer, lyricist, author, and teacher. Maury moves easily between the worlds of theater, film, and academia, writing concert music, Broadway shows, and holding teaching posts as a musicologist and music theorist.
In addition to winning his second Tony Award for Best Score for Broadway’s Titanic (which won five Tonys including Best Musical), Yeston won a Tony Award and two Drama Desk Awards for his music and lyrics to Broadway’s Nine (based on Fellini’s 8 ½). That production won four additional Tonys, including Best Musical. The Broadway revival of Nine won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. For all of the above he is a 3-time Grammy nominee. Yeston’s contribution to the score for Broadway’s Grand Hotel was nominated for a Tony and two Drama Desk Awards, and Michael Grandage’s Donmar Warehouse London production of this show won the Olivier Award.
His score for Phantom appeared Off Broadway in 2011 and was nominated for 11 Drama Desk Awards, including Best Score and Best Musical and cited by Time Magazine as among the top 10 plays and musicals of 2011. His hit new musical Revue Anything Can Happen In The Theater – The Musical World of Maury Yeston, conceived and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, premiered in March 2020 at Manhattan’s York Theater Company and is scheduled for London’s Charing Cross Theatre in 2022.