the book for the Broadway version of the musical Dance of the Vampires, with book, music and lyrics by Jim Steinman and original German book and lyrics by Michael Kunze. The musical opened on Broadway in October 2002 in previews, and closed in January 2003 after 56 performances. He co-wrote the book for Irving Berlin's White Christmas, which premiered in San Francisco in 2004 and then went on to tour across the United States. It had a limited engagement on Broadway from November 2008 to January 2009, and also from November 2009 to January 2010. He was collaborating with Stephen Sondheim on a new untitled musical based on two of the films of Luis Buñuel. It was set to premiere in 2017. On April 27th 2021, Sondheim announced the show was no longer in development. On September 15th, 2021 while appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Stephen Sondheim announced that he was working on a new musical called Square One in collaboration with David Ives. The same day, Nathan Lane revealed that he and Bernadette Peters were involved in a reading of this new work. Narrative fiction Ives wrote The Phobia Clinic, a full-length narrative verse-novel published in 2010. It is described as a philosophical horror novel written in verse. It is, according to the author, "grotesque, satirical, personal, sometimes funny, but mostly reflecting the mood of the title." Inspired by Dante, The Phobia Clinic employs the verse form of the Divine Comedy, known as terza rima, with the lines grouped in threes, and each group, or tercet, following the rhyme scheme ″aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ... ″ throughout Ives’ 55 cantos.Ives, David. The Phobia Clinic. The Coral Press. 2010. Ives wrote a young adult book, Monsieur Eek, which was released in 2001. The book is set in 1609, and is a "fairy tale–like story full of absurd characters who make bizarre interpretations..." His next book was Scrib (2005), set in the American West in 1863."Book Reviews. 'Scrib'" kirkusreviews.com, February 15, 2005 His book Voss: How I Come to America and Am Hero, Mostly'', was released in 2008. Personal Ives lives in New York City with his wife, Martha Ives, a book illustrator, a linoprint artist and a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists. References External links David Ives writer biography 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 1950 births Living people Northwestern University alumni Yale School of