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- Monday, May 12, 2008
Adam Guettel to Perform at Van Cliburn Foundation Event Tonight
Composer Adam Guettel performs at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth tonight for a sold-out show and conversation, as part of the Van Cliburn Foundation's Clibern at the Modern series. He will perform songs from his works Floyd Collins, Myths and Hymns, and the Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza, and will be joined for the occasion---his first time singing in three years---by singers from nearby Southern Methodist University.
- Wednesday, June 14, 2006
"The Light in the Piazza" on PBS
Adam Guettel's six-time Tony Award-winning show The Light in the Piazza will be broadcast live on PBS's Live from Lincoln Center tomorrow night, Thursday June 15. Nonesuch released the show's cast album in 2005.
About this Album
Applauded by both music and theater critics following its off-Broadway premiere in 1996, Floyd Collins, a richly inventive “folk musical” by New York composer Adam Guettel, was hailed as the dawn of an important new voice in American theater. The music, a synthesis of bluegrass, country, and Broadway, ranging from tuneful ballads to up-tempo ensemble numbers, is performed by an eight-piece band that includes piano, violin, viola, cello, bass, banjo, harmonica, and percussion, and a 13-member cast.
Floyd Collins is based on a 1925 incident involving a Kentucky spelunker in search of his fortune who was trapped for several days in a cave. Collins’s tragic ordeal spawned a national media frenzy, and the ensuing circus-like atmosphere created by the media, rescuers and curious onlookers captivated the entire nation.
Credits
MUSICIANS
Cast:
Jesse Lenat: Jewell Estes
Thresa McCarthy: Nellie Collins
Jason Danieley: Homer Collins
Cass Morgan: Miss Jane
Don Chastain: Lee Collins
Rudy Roberson: Ed Bishop
Stephen Lee Anderson: Bee Doyle
Martan Moran: Skeets Miller
Michael Mulheren: H.T. Carmichael
Brian d’Arcy James: Cliff Roney
Matthew Bennett: Dr. Hazlett
James Bohanek: Reporter/Con Man
Band:
Ted Sperling, music director/conductor
Steve Marzullo, piano, keyboards
Michael Nicholas, violin
David Creswell, viola, violin
Carlo Pellettieri, cello
Peter Donovan, bass
Kevin Kuhn, guitar, banjo
Corrin Huddleston, harmonica
Tom Parkinton, percussion
Scott Kuney, guitar, mandolin
Mark Sherman, percussion
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Tommy Krasker
Recorded March 1996 at The Hit Factory, New York, NY
Engineer: Tom Lazarus
Assistant Engineer: Glen Marchese
Music and lyrics by Adam Guettel
Additional lyrics by Tina Landau
Orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin
Vocal arrangement for “Is that Remarkable?” by Ted Sperling
Design by Barbara deWilde
Cover Photograph by Mary Javorak
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
