Death Takes a Holiday (musical)

Death Takes a Holiday is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan. It is adapted from the 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, which was translated in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris. The play was previously was adapted into a 1934 film of the same name starring Fredric March, which was remade in 1998 as Meet Joe Black. The story follows the personification of Death, who takes the form of a handsome young prince to understand human emotion.