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- Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Adam Guettel to Perform Five-Night Residency at New York's 54 Below
Composer/lyricist Adam Guettel will return to the New York stage for a five-night, seven-set residency at 54 Below, starting Tuesday, February 19. The program will include both new songs and favorites from throughout Guettel's career. He will be joined by band leader Kim Grigsby and singers Steven Pasquale and Whitney Bashor. Guettel has released three recordings on Nonesuch Records: The Light in the Piazza, Myths and Hymns, and Floyd Collins.
- Friday, June 22, 2012
Adam Guettel's "Floyd Collins" Opens in New Production from Chicago's BoHo Theatre; "A Masterpiece," Raves Wall Street Journal
A new production of Adam Guettel's critically acclaimed musical Floyd Collins from Chicago's BoHo Theatre company has opened and is earning accolades anew for the piece. "I can't imagine a better revival of a show that makes most of the Broadway musicals of the past decade look like shiny, tawdry junk," exclaims the Wall Street Journal, which calls Floyd Collins "a masterpiece." The Chicago Sun-Times says "the production is utterly enthralling." Also playing in Chicago, at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, is Guettel's 2005 Tony Award-winning musical, The Light in the Piazza.
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. The Wall Street Journal calls it a "masterpiece."
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
