Adam Guettel (Music, Lyrics) is a composer/lyricist living in New York City. His most recent musical, The Light In The Piazza (cast album on Nonesuch Records), with a book by Craig Lucas, premiered on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Beaumont Theater in April 2005, following a world premiere at the Intiman Theater in Summer 2003, and a second engagement at Chicago's Goodman Theater in early 2004 (where it received three Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best Musical). The Light In The Piazza received 6 Tony Awards including two for Mr. Guettel. Piazza received its UK premiere at the Curve Theater in Leicester in April 2009. Mr. Guettel wrote music and lyrics for Floyd Collins (cast album on Nonesuch Records), which received the 1996 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical and earned Mr. Guettel the Obie Award for Best Music. Floyd Collins has been presented at Playwrights Horizons, New York; Prince Theatre, Philadelphia; Goodman Theatre, Chicago; Old Globe, San Diego; Bridewell, London; and elsewhere. His other works include Love's Fire, a collaboration with John Guare for The Acting Company, and Saturn Returns, a concert at Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. Saturn Returns was recorded by Nonesuch Records under the title Myths and Hymns. Four of Mr. Guettel's songs were featured on Audra McDonald's Nonesuch Records album, Way Back To Paradise (1998), two more appear on her 2000 album, How Glory Goes (including the title track), and two more are on Build a Bridge (2007) including the title track. Mr. Guettel performed a concert evening of his works at New York's Town Hall in 1999. He can be heard singing four duets with Meryl Streep in the short film The Music of Regret (2008). Film scores include Arguing The World, a feature documentary by Joe Dorman (1999), and the score for JACK, a two-hour documentary for CBS by Peter Davis (1994). Awards for Mr. Guettel include the Stephen Sondheim Award (1990), the ASCAP New Horizons Award (1997), and the American Composers Orchestra Award (2005).
Shows Associated this writer
Songs Associated this writer
- Allure Of Silence Matthew Music
- Was That You? Matthew Music
- Light In The Piazza Show
- Saturn Returns
- Kathys Song
- Children Of The Heavenly King - Matt
- Come To Jesus - Matt
- Tween A Rock An A Hard Place
- Ballad Of Floyd Collins Reprise, The
- Ballad Of Floyd Collins, The
- Carnival, The
- Daybreak
- Dream, The Floyd Collins
- Floyd Collins
- Git Comfortable
- Heart An Hand
- How Glory Goes
- I Landed On Him
- Is That Remarkable?
- Blue Eyes
- Lucky
- Call, The
- Riddle Song, The
- Through The Mountain
- Tragic Story, A
- Baby Moon
- Come To Jesus
- Saturn Returns: The Flight
- Icarus
- Migratory V
- Jesus The Mighty Conqueror
- Children Of The Heavenly King
- At The Sounding
- Theres A Land
- Theres A Shout
- Pegasus
- Build A Bridge
- Sisyphus
- Life Is But A Dream
- Every Poodle
- Hero & Leander
- How Can I Lose You?
- Great Highway, The
- Awaiting You
- Saturn Returns: The Return Reprise
- Where A Man Belongs
- Link
- Loves Fire
- Light In The Piazza Suite
- Family Scene
- Cave-in
- Prometheus
- Shaft Scene Underscore
- Trapped From Floyd Collins
- An Shed Have Blue Eyes
- Bows From Floyd Collins
- Myths And Hymns Vocal Selections
- Overture The Light In The Piazza
- Statues And Stories
- Beauty Is, The
- Il Mondo Era Vuoto
- American Dancing
- Passeggiata
- Joy You Feel, The
- Dividing Day
- Hysteria
- Say It Somehow
- Aiutami
- Light In The Piazza, The
- Octet Light In The Piazza
- Beauty Is Reprise, The
- Lets Walk
- Claras Interlude
- Love To Me
- Fable
- Rondelay
- Overture Light In The Piazza, The
Concerts Associated this writer
- The Allure Of Silence (Symphonic Version)
- Baby Moon
- How Glory Goes (Symphonic Version)
- Migratory V
- How Glory Goes (Theatre Version)
- Is That Remarkable? (Theatre Version)
- Symphonic Suite From The Light In The Piazza
- The Light In The Piazza (Instrumental)
- Passeggiata (Instrumental)
- Statues And Stories (Instrumental)
- The Light In The Piazza (Theatre Version)
- The Call (Theatre Version)
- There's A Shout
- Love To Me (Theatre Version)
- Il Mondo Era Vuoto (Theatre Version)
- Passegiata (Theatre Version)
- Say It Somehow (Theatre Version)
- The Light In The Piazza Overture (Recording Version)
- Statues And Stories (Theatre Version)
- The Beauty Is (Theatre Version)
- American Dancing (Theatre Version)
- The Joy You Feel (Theatre Version)
- Dividing Day (Theatre Version)
- Hysteria/Lullaby (Theatre Version)
- Aiutami (Theatre Version)
- Octet (Theatre Version)
- The Beauty Is - Reprise (Theatre Version)
- Let's Walk (Theatre Version)
- Fable (Theatre Version)
- The Riddle Song (Theatre Version)
- Hero And Leander (Theatre Version)
- The Dream (Theatre Version)
News about this writer
R&H Theatricals' Charlie Scatamacchia recently attended the first professional U.S. production of THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA in-the-round at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, and spoke with the creatives and cast about their experience the show.
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