doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee



David Yazbec

DAVID YAZBEC

  (1961 - )

Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    n/a

David Yazbec's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

please send corrections / additions to doollee as an attachment -> download WORD submission template

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of David Yazbec's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Band's Visit, The         Dirty Rotten Scoundrels         Full Monty, The         Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown


Band's Visit, The

Synopsis:
An Egyptian police band is going to Israel to play at the Arab Cultural Centre. They arrive at Tel Aviv airport but there is no one to meet them. They buy bus tickets for the town where the Centre is but the ticket seller mistakes the Egyptian accent and they get tickets for an isolated little village

Notes:
Music and lyrics by David Yazbec; book by Itamar Moses. Based on the movie "The Band's Visit" screenplay by Eran Kolirin

1st Produced:
Atlantic Theatre Company     11 Nov 2016

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:

Top of Page Top of Page

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Conman Lawrence Jameson takes new boy conman Freddy under his wing. Things work out all right until Freddy starts trying to usurp Lawrence. they agree that whichever of them manages to con $50,000 out of a wealthy widow will be the winner and the other will have to leave forever

Notes:
Book by Jeffrey Lane; Music And lyrics by David Yazbek from the screenplay by Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning

1st Produced:
Imperial Theater, New York     03 Mar 2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original cast recording: Ghostlight (7915584406-2) 2005

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Full Monty, The

Full Monty, The
Will they or won't they? Six steel workers strive for success doing 'the Full Monty.' Come and see if the cast in this new musical of the acclaimed film go all the way!

Notes:
Book by Terrence McNally, music And lyrics by David Yazbek

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Katie Adams/the Gallery Players

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original cast recording: RCA Victo Broadway (B00000534BO) 2000

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Film Adaptation Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  8            Other:  extras

Further Reference:

Top of Page Top of Page

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Based on Pedro Almodovar's internationally acclaimed 1988 film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is set in late 20th-century Madrid and tells the story of the intertwining lives of a group of women whose relationships with men lead to a tumultuous 48 hours of love, confusion and passion.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Book by Jeffrey Lane, music And lyrics by David Yazbek

1st Produced:
Belasco theatre
111 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036     04 Nov 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original cast recording: Ghostlight Records 2011

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  9            Other:  -

Further Reference:

Top of Page Top of Page