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the sound of music; Composer Adam Guettel follows his family's footsteps onto the Broadway stage.(grandfather was Richard Rodgers)(Brief Article)
Byline: Adam Green
Adam Guettel, whose mother, Mary Rodgers, composed the score for the musical Once upon a Mattress and whose grandfather Richard Rodgers had a hand in a few Broadway hits, too, once swore that he would never go into the family business. Apparently he is not a man of his word. Next month, the 40-year-old New York-raised composer and lyricist makes his Broadway debut with The Light in the Piazza, a gorgeously melodic, unabashedly romantic chamber musical that confirms him as a major theatrical talent.
Off-Broadway, Guettel has shown a confident, eclectic voice, using an Appalachian folk idiom to depict the media circus surrounding a Kentucky man trapped in a cave in Floyd Collins and the rhythms of pop and gospel to explore addiction and recovery in Myths and Hymns. In Piazza, which ...
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