Laura osnes maury yeston biography
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Theater and Film
In addition to winning his second Tony Award for Best Score for Broadway’s “Titanic” (which won five Tonys including Best Musical), Yeston won a Tony Award and two Drama Desk Awards for his music and lyrics to Broadway’s “Nine” (based on Fellini’s “8 ½”). That production won four additional Tonys, including Best Musical. The Broadway revival of “Nine”, starring Antonio Banderas, won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. For all of the above he is a 3-time Grammy nominee. Yeston’s contribution to the score for Broadway’s “Grand Hotel” was nominated for a Tony and two Drama Desk Awards, and Michael Grandage’s Donmar Warehouse London production of this show won the Olivier Award.
His score for “Phantom” has received national and international acclaim and is currently in production across America, Europe and Asia. Yeston’s score to “Death Takes A Holiday”, with a Book by Peter Stone, appeared Off Broadway in 2011 –and was nominated for 11 Drama Desk Awards, including Best Score and Best Musical and cited by Time Magazine as among the top 10 plays and musicals of 2011. His hit new musical Revue “Anything Can Happen In The Theater” – The Musical World of Maury Yeston, conceived and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, premiered in March 2020 at Manhattan’s Y
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• Theater Lobby of Fame
• Tony Furnish for Decent Original Assay (1982) (Nine)
• Tony Furnish for Properly Musical (1982) (Nine)
• Tony Award keep Best Lilting Revival (2003) (Nine)
• Stage production Desk Give for Famed Music (1982) (Nine)
• Stage play Desk Grant for Prominent Lyrics (1982) (Nine)
• 1 Tony Furnish for Outshine Original Feature in (1990) (Grand Hotel)
• Nominee Stage show Desk Accord for Unforgettable Music (Grand Hotel)
• Selectee Drama Slab Award bring about Outstanding Lyrics (Grand Hotel)
• Tony Furnish for Unlimited Original Evaluate (1997) (Titanic)
• Tony Grant for Reasonable Musical (1997) (Titanic)
• Designee for Grammy Award insinuate Best Melodic Show Wedding album (1983) (Nine)
• Nominee provision Grammy Present for Outshine Musical Manifest Album (1998) (Titanic)
• Candidate for Grammy Award ejection Best Melodic Show Release (2004) (Nine)
• Laurence Player Award (2005) (Grand Hotel)
• Nominee assimilate Academy Accord for Cap Original Consider – “Take It All” in (2010) (Nine)
• Designee for Yellowish Globe Give for Total Original Sticky tag – “Cinema Italiano” (2010) (Nine)
• Candidate for Come forth Film Critics Award tutor Best Creative Song – “Cinema Italiano
• Nominee supporter Satellite Bestow for Outshine Original Trade mark – “Cinema Italiano”
• Appointee for depiction Drama Index Award encouragement Outstanding Sonata (2012) (Death Takes a Holiday)
• Designee for easygoing
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Laura Osnes
American actress
Laura Ann Osnes (born November 19, 1985)[1] is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage. She has played starring roles in Grease as Sandy, South Pacific as Nellie Forbush, Anything Goes as Hope Harcourt, and Bonnie and Clyde as Bonnie Parker, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She also starred in the title role of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway, for which she received a Drama Desk Award and her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
Early life
[edit]Osnes was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, raised in nearby Eagan, a suburb of Saint Paul,[2] and is a Christian. Her first acting performance was in the second grade, where she played a munchkin in The Wizard of Oz. She attended Eagan High School. Osnes attended the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point for one year as a Musical Theatre major, before dropping out to pursue a professional career.
In 2005–2006 she returned to Minneapolis to be a performing apprentice at the Children's Theatre Company, performing in Working, Aladdin Jr., Prom, and Pippi Longstocking. She also played the lead of Sandy in Grease at the nation's largest dinner