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- Kitt, a Long Islander with an affinity for Billy Joel, composed a rock score, and Yorkey, who grew up under the clouds of Seattle, wrote lyrics that blended a poignant story with sarcastic comments about American life and medical science.
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Thomas Robert Kitt [1] is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and musician. For his score for the musical Next to Normal, he shared the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Brian Yorkey. [2]
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...
While at Village Theatre, Yorkey founded the KIDSTAGE Company class which teaches teens to write, direct, and perform their own musicals. Yorkey's frequent collaborator, Tom Kitt, joined him in assisting with the score to the 2008 Company Original, In Your Eyes.
It’s too soon to say whether the creative partnership of Tom Kitt ’96 (music) and Brian Yorkey ’93 (book and lyrics) will someday join that pantheon. But they’re off to a good start, having won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their first Broadway collaboration, Next to Normal, which was also nominated for 11 Tony Awards and won three.
Feb 28, 2024 · The writers are Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (lyrics). Aside from Next to Normal, the duo have collaborated on If/Then (2014, starring Idina Menzel), Freaky Friday (2016), and The Visitor (2021). Separately, Kitt wrote the music for High Fidelity (2006), Bring It On with Lin-Manuel Miranda (2011), and Flying Over Sunset (2021). Yorkey was ...
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Jun 28, 2019 · Writers Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt met in college at Columbia University, where they collaborated on a variety of projects. After graduation, they attended the Broadway Music, Inc. Musical Theatre Workshop in 1998 where they had to write a final project. Yorkey and Kitt knew they wanted to do something nontraditional and out-of-the-box.
Brian Yorkey received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score for his work on Next to Normal and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played Off-Broadway and regionally; the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet; and the new country musical Play It By Heart.
