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David Yazbek was born on 1961 in New York City, U.S., is an American composer. Discover David Yazbek's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?
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David Norman Yazbek (born 1961) is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist.
While attending Brown University as an undergraduate, he wrote an original musical with the production group Brownbrokers before graduating in 1982.
He also directed a production of Hair with the student theatre group Production Workshop, for which he composed an original song to complement the classic score.
After college Yazbek got a job writing for David Letterman's late-night television show.
Yazbek wrote the music and lyrics for the musical adaptation of the 1982 film Tootsie, with a book by Robert Horn.
He won an Emmy Award as part of Letterman's writing team in 1986, but quit to pursue his love of music.
From 1987 to 1989 he was the co-owner of Manhattan Recording Company and wrote many commercial jingles.
Yazbek wrote the music for the musical adaptation of the 1988 Pedro Almodóvar film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Yazbek co-wrote the theme song to the 1991 Emmy award winning PBS-TV series Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego? with songwriter Sean Altman, a high school friend who led the show's featured vocal group, Rockapella.
Yazbek and Altman also composed and wrote the theme song to World successor, Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? He has written many other songs and background scores for children's television shows, especially those produced for Disney's cable television channel.
He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), The Band's Visit (2017), and Tootsie (2019).
Yazbek was born in New York City.
His father is of Lebanese descent, and his mother was of half Italian and half Jewish ancestry.
He began cello lessons in elementary school and took up the piano as a teenager.
He attended Riverdale Country School.
In 2000, director Jack O'Brien approached composer-lyricist Adam Guettel to write the music and lyrics for a musical based on the hit movie The Full Monty.
Guettel declined, but recommended Yazbek, whom he had played with in a band.
Yazbek took the job, collaborating with librettist Terrence McNally.
The show was a success, although it was overshadowed that year by Mel Brooks' musical The Producers.
The Full Monty ran for two years before closing, and for his work Yazbek was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music.
In 2002 he was a contributing lyricist for the musical Bombay Dreams.
Yazbek was again nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Original Score, and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics.
The musical opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre on November 4, 2010, with previews starting October 8.
The production received mixed to negative reviews, despite praise for the actors and Yazbek's score, and closed on January 2, 2011, after 30 previews and 69 performances.
Despite the early closing, the show was nominated for three Tony Awards, for the performances of Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti, and Yazbek's score.
Yazbek wrote the music and lyrics for the musical adaptation of the film The Band's Visit, with a book by Itamar Moses.
The musical premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company Linda Gross Theater on November 11, 2016, in previews.
This production won him the 2017 Obie Award for Musical Theatre and later the production transferred to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.
Yazbek won the Tony Award for Best Original Score for his efforts on this show.
It opened in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in September 2018 and opened on Broadway in March 2019.
The show was nominated for eleven Tony Awards, including for Yazbek's score.
The show won two awards: Best Book of a Musical and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Santino Fontana).
In 2022, Yazbek reunited with Itamar Moses for the book, and Erik Della Penna for the music and lyrics for the musical Dead Outlaw, based on a true story, and had a premiere presentation at Feinstein's/54 Below.
Yazbek has released five rock albums to date.
He has produced tracks for the band XTC, and its lead singer Andy Partridge has collaborated on Yazbek's solo albums.
He also has written for or produced recordings by Spacehog, Tito Puente, The Persuasions, and Queen Sarah Saturday.