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| | BAM: Dirty Rotten Songwriter, Arts and Culture, March/April 2005 |
 | | Yazbek returns to Broadway this spring with a musical adaptation of the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in which Steve Martin and Michael Caine played a pair of suave swindlers. |
 | | In the show’s music, Yazbek stays true to the indelible melodies, keen observations, provocative metaphors, and absurd humor that characterize his albums (on his latest CD, Damascus, he glimpses Fuji blimps, celebrates cowgirls heading for Santo Domingo, and makes a leap of lyrical faith by connecting baseball hall-of-famer Sandy Koufax to the Holocaust). |
 | | With Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Yazbek shows himself to be a pop-music eclectic, equally at ease penning rockers with tongue-in-cheek lyrics (including the high-energy “Great Big Stuff”) as he is in crafting a heartfelt ballad (“Love Sneaks In,” sung by Lithgow). |
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