And Guettel is a test of your tolerance: how talented, charming, wealthy and ''maddeningly good-looking'' (as his mother puts it) is it fair for one person to be? And for some reason out of this Upper West Side Jew comes all of this music to these hymn lyrics. You And Me, or her childrens book Freaky Friday which she adapted into the 1976 Jodi Foster movie. And you have to abandon all kinds of things.'' Talaura Harms Repeatedly Guettel talks about how all the music he wrote before Floyd Collins went unheard. He's done the damage. For the 1999 revision of Floyd Collins, Guettel was asked to write a new song for the title character. (He even asked the Intiman Theater, where the premier production of ''Piazza'' is playing through July 19, not to mention Rodgers in its press releases.) Soon I was taking 25 to 30 a day. How Can I Lose You? was written specifically for the moderate range of Theresa McCarthy. ''Maybe I'm just on the local instead of the express,'' he says, referring not just to love but also to the hope of straightening himself out for good. '', True enough. Theres a story there, which we dont learn. But after seeing his brother taken away, something changed. In Myths and Hymns the 29-year-old Guettel wrote: Icarus was not an achiever. To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker.We'd really appreciate it. He trails off, sighing. ''It's easy to get away with things when you have money and people think you're attractive. Music orchestrated by Adam Guettel. There's a dramatic hole at the heart of the story, and it needs to be filled soon because the show is about to open in previews. Hundreds more became fans when Guettels Myths And Hymns: Saturn Returns had a limited run at the Public Theater in 1998. No, it is more so, thanks to that strangely limping extra eighth-note, which seems to argue that imperfection can be another kind of beauty. He recently scored the Aaron Sorkin Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird for which he received a Tony Award nomination. And then someone offered me Vicodin. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. I hope that phase is over. The economics of serious chamber musicals, on Broadway or off, are not easy to square. '', But it's a sunny day in Seattle, and the Queen Anne prospect, once we reach it, is spectacular. Adam says he never resented his well-known mother. But I let go of my vanity and let it be what it was. Continue with Recommended Cookies. I've risked my life so many times now, in cars where I can barely see, doing cocaine and drinking and driving, with a stick shift on the Taconic. And more surprisingly, Oscar Hammerstein you hear in the words. Kristin Chenoweth said to him: First, just stop and breathe.. Julia Murney does much better with The Boy From But its a shame there is no explanation of this song, whose hilarious lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim under the pseudonym Esteban Nio Rido. ITS splitsville for Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman and Tony-winning song writer Adam Guettel and curtains for The Princess Bride. The two had I'm playing Russian roulette. As with all the projects Guettel chooses, and agonizes over until you'd think they'd bleed like his fingers, it offered a kind of proving ground on which to detonate his most devastating fears. Once Upon a Mattress was her Broadway hit, but children of the 70s may remember her songs for Free to Be . Shortly after the couples wedding, Robinson wrote on Instagram, although it was not the wedding we had originally planned, this was easily the best night of my life. he asks, holding them up for inspection. Richard Rodgers, Daughter Mary Rodgers and Grandson Adam Guettel at the 92nd St Y Author: New York Theater Published Date: November 24, 2020 Leave a Commenton Richard Rodgers, Daughter Mary Rodgers and Grandson Adam Guettel at the 92nd St Y Richard Rodgers and Mary Rodgers Adam Guettel and Mary Rodgers Telly This is something he realized he preferred. He is writing a musical adaptation of Days of Wine and Roses with playwright Craig Lucas. ''To fail in the pursuit of something noble,'' he says, on a good day, ''is itself noble. By And yet, on my last day in Seattle, Guettel relates a dream he once had about his grandfather: ''I was walking him to an elevator. March 1, 2023, By If you are obsessed with talent and you meet Stephen Sondheim when youre 13, itll set the course of your life., Sondheim was not the only gay man Mary lovedher first husband, for handy example. I wanted to preserve her voice as much as possible because she was such a delightful talker, so honest and funny.. Even his father told me, not exactly censoriously, about the dozens of ''lovely, spurned ladies spread all over the pavements of Manhattan'' -- one of whom supposedly wrote a musical about him, featuring a number of embittered ex-girlfriends. I went through all that stuff before I ended up realizing that writing for Several decades earlier, she had made the same suggestion to her father. Guettels music isnt the material of Broadway blockbusters, but it is widely beloved for its originality, even for its difficulty, leaning toward the tradition of American art song or even the high-level writing of golden age musical theater composers like his grandfather Richard Rodgers. Nonesuch released the Myths and Hymns CD and word-of-mouth began to spread. . People on YouTube have been asking, Can we please have this as audio? It would be lovely to have a little more time with it. Hes certain to be an important composer for the American musical theater. He does so, and laughs, as if at the antics of a not-quite-funny but tolerated drunk. I wanted to preserve her voice as much as possible because she was such a delightful talker, so honest and funny.. It was the happiest moment of my life.'' While trying to spin his leg over his seated brides head, Gaudette inadvertently kicked Robinson in the head. What I got was Mary and her husband, Henry Guettel, oversharing about Adam and themselves. Hardly anyone heard of him before Floyd Collins had its premiere in Philadelphia in 1994. Tony winners Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, and Adam Guettel will be among the guests this fall on the free virtual talk show, Studio Tenn Talks: Theater Conversations with Patrick Cassidy.. That was enough to keep me busy. Billy Stritch says that Guettel writes shoulder chords the kind that make pianists hunch their shoulders emotionally as they play. ''I was not my father or my son. Only two of her songs are performed during the program. '', Another inherited burden. Because there's a point at which, being unhappy for too long, you become irrevocably unkind, like my grandfather. In honor of Womens History Month, find out which female-identifying Broadway character matches your zodiac this month. It speaks volumes for her wit and her generosityqualities that come over loud and clear in her posthumous memoir published recently by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, SHY: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers, Loud and clear because, basically, the book (all 458 pages of it) is a version of the conversation that she had with Jesse Green, chief theater critic at, , off and on, for a decadetill her death in 2014 at the age of 83. He says that the very loose frame of the show was the idea of a flight from and return to the self a journey of self-discovery. His composition became an examination of his life, in music and words. Grandpa was in the right place at the right time. Neither piece reflects in any obvious way the life he knows. It was not in their natureparticularly not in Marys, having grown up in a repressed household., way into the family business, she went to her father with a melody-in-progress, and he said, No, Id do it, way. It was the last time she went to him for musical advice. By the time I was 27 I was in recovery, but not authentically. Guettel did wind up a composer, after first playing in rock bands and trying to be an actor. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. When I heard that, I asked herand she confirmedSondheim, in many ways, was the love of her life, love understood to mean not necessarily sexual love but also not unromantic. '', The botched opportunity was also a boon, diverting his musical impulses toward composing. But he also recognizes that New York may not be a viable option for every project, not at the risk of someone else's $5 million. Id been a boy soprano sang Ynold in Pelleas at the Met and Amahl at City Opera and Santa Fe Opera. Right now I have 69 days clean, and I have to keep going to meetings regularly or I know I will be doing drugs again. Guettel is the son of composer, author and Juilliard School chairman Mary Rodgers, who died on June 26, 2014, and grandson of legendary musical theater composer Richard Rodgers.His father, Henry Guettel (died October 7, 2013), was a film executive and was the executive director of the Theatre Development Fund.. Greens goal, he says, was for the reader to feel as if they were sitting in that living room with me, listening to Mary. This is easier said than done, but a successful Rodgers-Green amalgam was reachedso successful you may think it is the only way a modern-day memoir should be written: Rodgers takes the upper berth of the page, telling her life story in her unflinching, unfiltered fashion, and Green takes the lower berth, footnoting his research of her stories. ''What's next for Mr. '', I take Guettel's telling me this to mean that, despite profound ambivalence about the family business, he is resolved to carry it forward -- in his own way. Geographically, it couldnt be better. Very simple, very accessibleand yet Guettel asks me to listen to it again and hear a jazz trio sound in the accompaniment. Major Broadway creatives are coming out for HAMILTON! She gave him a beaut: Call me back when hes dead. They had known each other for years, most of which she regretted. Beyond that, the story has pulled from Guettel half a dozen of the most convincing and beautiful new theater songs I've heard in a long time. He calls himself a ''method'' composer, meaning that he burrows deeply into his characters' lives and, among other delaying tactics, stores reams of earnest notes on his Palm Tungsten W. ''Loving him is having him be not what you would have him be but a harbinger of your truer next self,'' reads one. I also take it as an omen that ''Piazza'' has a happy ending, albeit (as Guettel insists) an ''off-axis'' one: the child, never learning how she was damaged, gets to marry her Italian suitor. It racked up 460 performances, bouncing to four different theaters, and made a star of Carol Burnett, who gave a full-lunged rendition of the shows big number, Shy. At each change of address, Burnett and Rodgers were seen carting a mattress through a new stage door. She put together a commencement revue and asked campus composers to submit songs. In November 2020, a video from their wedding showing Gaudette delivering a roundhouse kick to his wife went viral on TikTok. He does care. I was good but not great. He says his parents were great, but I grew up in that affluent, hedonistic, Upper West Side culture. His father, Henry Guettel, was a retired film executive. ''There is a nexus of three things that makes a song reach into the world,'' Guettel says. Allison Blackwell sings Do I Hear A Waltz? the title song of the only musical Richard Rodgers wrote with Stephen Sondheim as his lyricist a lyricist (as weve seen) with whom his daughter collaborated as well, but nothing is made of this. Rodgers was a songwriter herself, a novelist, and a screenwriter. What few can learn, few can love. My goal is to create a special sound for that, the sound of being in love, or wanting to be. At the Town Hall concert he premiered two melodies that he just wrote for it still without words. Guettel regrets that he was born too late to interact with Rodgers in his prime. What Guettel really wants is for the work to be good, and then for it to have a future. About Last Night, Terry Teachout (inactive), Everything I Know I Learned from Musicals, Chris Caggiano (inactive). His mother, Mary Rodgers Guettel, was the composer of Once Upon a Mattress, as well as numerous songs and childrens stories. From more than one Prince of Broadway to a little orphan Annie, Playbill gives a standing ovation to Broadway's brightest born in March. But ''Piazza,'' even in its imperfect first incarnation, turns out to be a real, ravishing work, a romantic chamber musical whose subject (love) and setting (Italy) provide Guettel with an entirely new palette of colors to blend, albeit in his characteristic bravura style. And that'' -- he shuts his eyes -- ''is tiring.''. Please consider supporting us bywhitelisting playbill.com with your ad blocker.Thank you! | . That last was Rodgers: arguably the greatest American composer, and inarguably an alcoholic, a womanizer, an all-around tyrant. Some people felt she was too self-depreciating about her own talent. #Stageworthy News of the Week, Best Musical Theater Album #Grammy Nominations , The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Review. ''Looking forward to love is just a fat line of cocaine.'' Mary Rodgers modesty seems to have unduly influenced Masse, the artistic director of Lyrics and Lyricists and the author of the script. Adam Guettels genre-clashing song cycle has taken on many forms. And it's never over. What I got was Mary and her husband, Henry Guettel, oversharing about Adam and themselves. A date for opening night is to be announced. | But that makes his songs more interesting on repeated hearings. ''I was fascinated with drinking and drugs from as young as I remember,'' Guettel says. What fun! It doesnt negate the fact he wrote the books for two incredible musicalsWest Side Story and Gyspy., Rodgers hues a harsher line: Talent excuses almost anything but Arthur Laurents.. In November 2020, a video from their wedding showing Gaudette delivering a roundhouse kick to his wife went viral on TikTok. I spent hundreds of hours with her, laughing, and I wanted to duplicate that, Green says. The savior-of-the-musical mantle, however well it fits, also burns; he's constantly clawing at it, tearing it off. Though to Lucas (who is also directing the Seattle production) the main story is the mother's unexpected triumph in securing her daughter's happiness, to Guettel it's something so sad I can hardly square it with the debonair man who's telling me his version. He admits to feeling pressure from the fame of his grandfather, the composer of Oklahoma!, Carousel, King and I, et al. Once, flying back to Exeter from New York, where he'd gone to sign papers regarding his grandfather's will, he scalped his Eastern Shuttle coupons for drug money and was beaten bloody in the process. Copyright 1991-2023 Playbill Inc. All Rights Reserved. '', It seems that even in his worst traits Guettel will always be compared with Richard Rodgers, who bedded any chorus girl he could get his hands on. Which is more precocious: that at age 11 he could sing before 3,800 people at the Met, his style lovely, his French impeccable? He wanted to identify with the subject. When he first crossed paths with Rodgers, in 2003, Green was a working on a profile of Marys son, Adam Guettel, who was then making his first indelible mark in the family business musicalizing Elizabeth Spencers 1960 novella, (which subsequently took the Tony for 2005s Best Score). Robinson did not post the video on TikTok until November 18. Tony winner Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James will lead the cast as Kirsten and Joe, respectively, with Michael Greif at the helm. Guettels search is set to a dizzying variety of musical styles, which makes it fun but which may pose problems for a first-time listener. She told me, No, she wasnt too self-depreciating. Spend a minute with him -- it takes only one -- and a picture of the terror behind the tics starts to emerge. you can pay for dinner. That was Mary Rodgers stock response whenever a dining companion reached for the tab. Gaudette also said that Robinson has a degree in engineering. She was impressed to the point of commissioning them to do Floyd Collins, based on the true story of a Kentucky cave explorer and the media circus surrounding his entrapment underground in 1925. The song wasn't ready for the first-night preview I saw on May 31 -- it went into the show 10 days later -- but I assume I will hear it when ''Piazza'' comes to New York after a production, this winter, at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. She put together a commencement revue and WebMary Rodgers (January 11, 1931 June 26, 2014) was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. Gaudette told the media in October 2020 that he and Robinson had moved in with his parents in Quincy, Massachusetts, during the off-season. as Satine. Marys father Adams grandfather was the composer Richard Rodgers. Kim Grigsby will serve as music director, with Antoine Silverman as music contractor. Click the AdBlock Plus button on your browser and select Disable on Observer.com. Bob Hurwitz, president of Nonesuch Records, is trying to talk Guettel into making a solo CD. Tina Landau, daughter of the late writer and director Ely Landau, was a senior at Yale when she met Guettel, two years her junior. Adam began drinking with his friends when he was a teenager. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/magazine/a-complicated-gift.html. But if ''Floyd Collins'' was, as John Simon put it, ''the original and daring musical of our day,'' it wasn't because of the joy. I love you Micaela. But no production has been as starry as this Myths and Hymns, whose nimble eclecticism opens it up to diverse casting. Even ''Piazza.'' Thank you to everyone who helped put this night together in 10 days and for coming on such short notice! A new virtual production of Myths and Hymns by MasterVoices reunites the works composer, Adam Guettel, left, with the music director of its debut, Ted Sperling, who now leads MasterVoices. All that joy and solace -- admittedly some of it the gift of Hammerstein's words -- passed on like a giant rock to be carried up ev'ry damn mountain. Medusa, for example, was a short animated by Earl Womack. I dont want to be spoon-fed easy melodies and things I can hum. I happily married the love of my life and was surrounded by the people who mean the most to me. February 28, 2023, By Not to mention motherhood. ''I don't enjoy turning on or off a light switch without being slightly off the ground,'' he says, hopping on one foot. Lorraine Hansberry's Greenwich Village, Letters From Max, A Ritual: Theater review, Here Lies Love Review: Disco Night With Imelda Marcos By David Byrne, The Wanderers Review: Two Jewish Couples and a Movie Star. After that, he was so far beyond anything I could ever have dreamed of, I just backed off.''. Envious souls, which is to say most everyone involved in the theater, might be glad to find this apparently superfortunate human reduced to weird marionette behaviors. This concerns him: I want my music to be accessible. He says hes carrying on the tradition of melodic songwriting that started with Schubert and Schumann and continued through Stephen Foster, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern and both Rodgerses. No display ads ran in the papers. Even though hes in the music business, Hurwitz admits he didnt learn of Guettel until 1996 when Collins had a limited run at Manhattans Playwrights Horizons. I'd like to be happy, if only to be able to be kind. ''Lovely, don't you think?'' Previews of the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical's revival were met by neo-Nazi protesters. He went through a time of profound reassessment, asking what have I done with this first cycle of my life? At 29 and 30 a lot of people change. Greens second encounter with Mary Rodgers was to get a quote from her about playwright and director Arthur Laurents for a piece he was doing in New York magazine. She studied music at Wellesley College, and began her music career composing children's songs for Little Golden Records. If his grandfather's trust has allowed Guettel to make his art carefully, to work on each project for years without having to write jingles or wait on tables to pay the rent in between, it has also financed the death-defying addictions that every day threaten to crack his voice forever. Tony winners Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, and Adam Guettel will be among the guests this fall on the free virtual talk show, Studio Tenn Talks: Theater Conversations He thought about the right things, even if he wasn't the most enlightened person personally. Just get me out and get me high! He concludes: Maybe faith is only hoping that we can rise anew. Logan Culwell-Block Margaret Hall He doesnt know yet how to deal with this. She married Julian Bonar Beaty Jr. Below are steps you can take in order to whitelist Observer.com on your browser: Click the AdBlock button on your browser and select Don't run on pages on this domain. She gave him a beaut: Call me back when hes dead. They had known each other for years, most of which she regretted. He interrupts himself to say that he was depressed but never was close to suicide. But Guettel has a beautiful quality and the ability to negotiate ascending high scales with penetrating power. So this is what comes of ''Edelweiss'' and ''You'll Never Walk Alone.'' Is ''Love to Me'' -- the romantic climax of the score -- less heart-melting because it is set mostly in the compound time signature of 5/8+4/8? which she adapted into the 1976 Jodi Foster movie. It's not pedantry; it's how Guettel hears, and in some sense tries to stabilize, his damaged world. Miranda shared the shots on Twitter commenting, "Composers' Corner: Green & Guettel (& a helmeted #groffsauce) #HamiltonPublic" along with a pic of Guettel and Green before following up with a photo with Kushner, writing, "Kushner.". I was an abject, drug-addled wretch, shades drawn, not eating, watching TV all day. Rodgers was a songwriter herself, a novelist, and a screenwriter. ), Heres Guettel with only two shows behind him and for that night, at least hes the hottest talent within blocks of the Great White Way. Which seems a shame because, with enough tinkering, ''Piazza'' could be a classic. When he was at Yale, I was at Columbia, and we both played classical piano. Also when you're verbal and have ready access to silken prose, which only sometimes reflects what you're really thinking. She wanted to marry him, and it was mostly out of adoration of his genius. She titled it, How my husband ruined our wedding part 1. Robinson wrote in the description of the video that she cried for a little bit and that her head was throbbing after she was kicked and Gaudette felt insanely bad but it was fine because the couple ended up partying until 8 am with our best friends. During the video, Robinson said that she thought that she might have a concussion. Which may be why, as you track Guettel's work since the success of ''Floyd Collins,'' the terrain remains rocky. ''And of course I have to put my knee into the corner of a room.'' I love you.. We arent told that it was written as a parody of The Girl From Ipanema, nor do we get the delicious details of the lyrics, which include the elaborately silly names of two fictitious towns. Guettel is the first theater composer since Harold Arlen to have a really good singing voice. Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'arcy James. Sondheim himself listed ''The Riddle Song'' from ''Floyd Collins'' -- almost nine minutes of unimpeded joy -- among those he most wishes he'd written himself. Anyone can read what you share. I've got a trust fund'' -- which was, in part, defensive. And, besides, she did get three wonderful kids out of that marriage. WebAdam s the first Tony winner whose mother, Mary Rodgers, was a Tony nominee and whose grandfather, Richard Rodgers, was a Tony winner. . '' Guettel and I are walking up Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, toward a prospect he assures me is worth it. | GUETTEL There are six songs that are not on the Nonesuch record [released in 1999] that no ones ever heard, except the people who saw it at the Public. #Stageworthy News of the Week, 12 Best Theater Books in the Past 10 Years, The Whale: Screen vs. Or how they suffer, anyway. And thats what Myths and Hymns does for me.. Some people felt she was too self-depreciating about her own talent. ''Floyd Collins,'' a critical success at Playwrights Horizons in 1996, is based on the true story of a man trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925. She put together a commencement As she got older, Green says, she had been complicit in what she always understood to be his meannesscomplicit because she was afraid of being the object of that meanness, so she stood by and watched him, one at a time, destroy people around him with nastiness. But its fine, whatever, Green shrugs. Into the Woods Broadway Review: 3 reasons to stay home, 18 to attend. But what a show seeking a future really needs is to be recorded and to have its score published -- both of which seem certain to happen for ''Piazza.'' Then Marjorie Samoff, producing director of the American Music Theater Festival, attended a performance of an operatic version of A Christmas Carol, written by Landau and Guettel, at Trinity Rep in Providence, R.I. in 1991. Micaela Robinson, Adam Gaudettes Wife: 5 Fast Facts | Heavy.com They are often two to three times longer than standards: Guettel doesn't circle beauty balefully but pounces on it and feasts, wringing the last life from it. It doesnt negate the fact he wrote the books for two incredible musicals. ''It takes a long time to admit that you have this problem, that it's a terminal illness. '', Guettel publishes his work under the corporate name Matthew Music; if death was the beginning of his voice, vice was not far behind. Gaudette tweeted around 3:00 a.m. on June 21, Tonight I married the love of my life. We did it!! (Stephen Holden, reviewing the Public performances for The New York Times, wrote that Guettel had created a kaleidoscopically heady musical-theater piece in which Gabriel Faur meets Stevie Wonder, Caetano Veloso embraces Earth, Wind and Fire, and they all dance together around the tribal hearth.). ''We can finally admit, confidentially, that being a prominent theater composer is like being a prominent manuscript illuminator. I found it a little bit depressing.. Lorraine Hansberrys Greenwich Village, Obie Winners: English, Martyna Majok, Ping Chong, Anne Bogart, Ralph Lee, etc. Its unsurprising that so many singers were willing to join the production. And the third is the thing that no one has control over: the times. ''He came downstairs in his Doctor Dentons that evening,'' Mary recalls, ''and started clowning around, poking people in the face, which was such a sudden personality change. But the big thing I've lost is time -- I think, conservatively, 10 years of writing, because it's 16 years since I got out of school, and I was gainfully employed for only six of them. On Halloween 2020, the couple came in second on the Canucks Armys list of the best costumes among the players. When Guettel took up music Casting is by The Telsey Office, and Judith Schoenfeld will be production stage manager. She and her second husband, film exec Henry Guettel, had three sons, Matthew (d. 1966), Adam, a Tony Award -winning musical theatre composer, and Alec. Henry died in October 2013 at the age of 85. But there is a difference. Theyre clean and open, but theyre often in a different key from the vocal melody. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. She did not think she was nothing, but, when you have a genius father, you have to be realistic about things or youre going to have a dreadful time trying to work in the same field as he did.. He was not yet 2. The perfect way to visit San Juan, Puerto Rico. The vocal lines are compulsively notated down to the last crotchet, specifying the kinds of inflections and back-phrasings that other composers would leave to the singers' sense of style. ''I kind of faked that my voice was changing,'' he says now. ''I can't help that,'' Guettel says. Arlen had a bluesy jazz flavor in his; Guettel has more of a scat-singing jazz sound. ''Tell him things like, 'The ear likes to know where the harmonic home is, so try to get back there.' In his lyrics he says: I want out of this hunger. After that I wrote some one-act operas. I dont know what I expected, Green admits, but it wasnt what I got. I think Ive lost my `Floyd voice. Nevertheless, Guettel wrote the song. ), Guettel is also quoted extensively, voiced by narrator Beth Malone from a variety of published interviews, offering his views about music in general, and tidbits about his family. That scared him clean for two years, but gradually, at Yale, where he felt isolated and unhappy, he slipped back into pot and mushrooms and pills. Samuel D. Hunter on religious extremism. Faced with Guettels reluctance, Hurwitz tells him: Humility can go only so far in this world.. Tom Stoppard on the Jews of Vienna, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window Review. I dont know what I expected, Green admits, but it wasnt what I got. He thought about the right things, even if he wasnt the most enlightened person, personally, and he had perfect control of his technique., One fascinating tidbit: Guettels mother is the one who suggested he musicalize the story of Light in the Piazza, which was adapted from a novella by Elizabeth Spencer. Follow Lin-Manuel Miranda on Twitter here. Painful things are dispensed so freely here, in such smart, neat proportions, that they might as well be martinis. TED SPERLING From the very beginning. Though the day ''Piazza'' plays its first preview is only his 70th day of recovery, Guettel is making plans as if he will get to 700 and beyond. The other instruments -- piano, violin, cello, bass -- aren't spared, either. The couple dressed both dressed as different versions of The Joker character from The Dark Knight. 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