Concert announced to celebrate composer Maury Yeston’s 80th birthday

To celebrate multi-Tony Award winning composer Maury Yeston’s 80th birthday, producer Danielle Tarento will present a concert of his most well known and loved music on 22 February at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with a star cast headed up by West End and Broadway star Ramin Karimloo and directed by Thom Southerland.

Tarento and Southerland have collaborated previously on several of Yeston’s shows in the UK, including the London premieres of Titanic the Musical, Death Takes a Holiday, and a critically acclaimed revival of Grand Hotel.

These musicals will be represented in the concert, along with music from Nine, Phantom (Maury’s 1991 version of The Phantom of the Opera has received over 1,000 productions globally) and many others, including never-before heard songs and an overture written especially for the occasion.

Ramin Karimloo played Barrett in the recent Encores production of Titanic the Musical at NYCityCenter and Guido Contini in Nine in Concert for Hope Mill Theatre at The Lowry.

Further star casting is to be announced.

The concert will feature a 30-piece LMTO orchestra, under the baton of Mark Aspinall.

Producer Danielle Tarento said: “My working relationship and friendship with Maury is one of the great joys of my life. His musicals resonate so deeply with me and have framed so much of the past 15 years of my career. To be able to celebrate his 80th birthday in such a significant way is a privilege and an honour.”

The concert is raising funds for Bowel Cancer UK with all profits going towards supporting the work of this vitally important charity.