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Lyricist, composer, musical supervisor, and all-around true New York City original
Adam Guettel is as comfortable with opera as he is with pop. As the son of esteemed composer and performer
Mary Rodgers, as well as the grandson of Broadway and Hollywood legend
Richard Rodgers (Rodgers & Hammerstein),
Guettel has proven himself to be worthy of his lineage. He has completed critically acclaimed works for landmark Big Apple institutions like the New York Theatre Workshop and the New York Shakespeare Festival and received numerous awards including the
Stephen Sondheim Award and the ASCAP New Horizons award. His collaboration with
John Guare on Love's Fire for the Acting Company and Saturn Returns: A Concert at the Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival was recorded and released on Nonesuch Records in 1999. The label also released his 1997 conceptual folk/classical piece
Floyd Collins. Next came
Light in the Piazza, a song cycle that brings to mind the works of
David Ackles and
Tim Buckley. ~ James Christopher Monger