NEW RELEASE!
Adam Guettel's Light in the Piazza!
Winner of 6 Tony Awards!!
"Guettel's music and lyrics take nothing from the razzle-dazzle bargain basement of feeling; they represent, instead, a genuine expense of spirit. Guettel's kind of talent cannot be denied. He shouldn't change for Broadway; Broadway, if it is to survive as a creative theatrical force, should change for him."- John Lahr, The New Yorker
Nonesuch Records released the original cast album of Adam Guettel's new musical, The Light in the Piazza, on May 24, 2005. Craig Lucas wrote the show's book and Bartlett Sherr directed the Broadway production, which opened at New York's Lincoln Center Theater on April 18 of this year, following productions at Seattle's Intiman and Chicago's Goodman Theatres.
The Wall Street Journal's Terry Teachout calls The Light in the Piazza "the best new musical to open in New York since Passion," while Stephen Holden of The New York Times calls Guettel, "his generation's most brilliant and persuasive conjurer of 'the sound of touch me.'"
The Light in the Piazza, based on the novella of the same name by Elizabeth Spencer, is set in the summer of 1953 and tells the story of a mother and daughter traveling through Italy. While on vacation, the daughter has a romance with a handsome, high-spirited Florentine, despite the mother's determined efforts to keep the two apart.
The cast of eighteen includes Michael Berresse, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Victoria Clark, Patti Cohenour, Mark Harelik, Matthew Morrison, Kelli O'Hara, and Joseph Siravo.
Adam Guettel wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Floyd Collins (Nonesuch 1997), and for Saturn Returns: A Concert, which was recorded by Nonesuch Records under the title Myths and Hymns. He wrote the music for the New York Theatre Workshop production of John Guare's Lydie Breeze and collaborated with Guare on Love's Fire for the Acting Company. Guettel scored the feature documentary, Arguing the World, and the CBS documentary Jack. Four of his songs are featured on Audra McDonald's recording Way Back To Paradise (Nonesuch 1998).
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