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In 2014, Yorkey's collaborative work, with Sting and co-librettist John Logan, The Last Ship opened on Broadway. The musical is loosely based on Sting's album The Soul Cages (1990). It opened on September 29, 2014. Yorkey and Logan were nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for their book.
In 2014, Yorkey and Kitt’s musical If/Then starring Idina Menzel, LaChanze and Anthony Rapp opened on Broadway. Yorkey collaborated with Sting and John Logan on The Last Ship, which opened on Broadway in 2014 as well. Yorkey and Kitt collaborated once again on Freaky Friday, a musical adaptation of the film by the same name. Beyond theatre ...
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MURREY JACOBSON: Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt are the co-creators of the musical Next to Normal, which won the Pulitzer prize for drama on Monday. Brian wrote the books and lyrics, Tom wrote the music.
Kitt, 37, lean and dark-haired, and Yorkey, 39, husky with a bushy graying beard, both nurse tall glasses of iced tea. “There’s a big difference between being 27 and 37,” says Yorkey, explaining the evolution of the show. “When we were in our 20s, irony was a big thing.
Mar 24, 2014 · An alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, he was associate artistic director for seven years at Village Theatre in Issaquah and Everett, Wash., one of the nation’s leading incubators of musicals. Yorkey wrote the book for Sting’s The Last Ship, which opens on Broadway later this year, and has three screenplays in development.
Jan 3, 2011 · Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's musical Next to Normal won the Pulitzer for its authors -- the book and lyrics are by Yorkey, the music by Kitt. Yet it began simply as an exercise for a musical ...
Inside NEXT TO NORMAL background and analysis by Scott Miller Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s surrealistic, expressionistic Next to Normal was surely the most adult, most mature rock musical to hit Broadway in decades when it opened, an unrelentingly intense, brutally honest story about a bipolar woman undergoing electroshock therapy, about the impact of her illness on her family, and about the ...
