Maury Yeston, the celebrated composer/lyricist of the Tony Award-winning musicals Nine, Titanic, and Grand Hotel, has not, until now, been the subject of a full-length study of his career and his work. Author Joshua Rosenblum sets out to increase appreciation for Yeston’s work and establish his place in musical theater history. Rosenblum gives behind-the-scenes accounts of Yeston’s Broadway musicals and appraises his songs with revelatory analyses that can be appreciated by musicians and lay readers alike. Yeston, an unusually articulate, charming, and enlightening orator, is quoted liberally throughout the book, offering priceless insights into his work, his process, and the numerous well-known artistic figures who have featured prominently in his life, including Stephen Sondheim, Antonio Banderas, Placido Domingo, Federico Fellini, Kate Hudson, Raul Julia, Ed Kleban, Jane Krakowski, Alan Jay Lerner, Sophia Loren, Yo-Yo Ma, Andrea Marcovicci, Rob Marshall, Alan Menken, Mike Nichols, Barbra Streisand, Peter Stone, Tommy Tune, and Jonathan Tunick. As a bonus, “Advice to Young Theater Composers,” his legendary discourse, is included in full as an appendix.