<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Adam Guettel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adam Guettel]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:41:43 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.adamguettel.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Adam Guettel Tells Jesse Eisenberg How He Wrote the Season’s Most Ambitious Musical (2025)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adam Guettel, photographed by Marc J. Franklin. About ten years ago, a reporter asked Jesse Eisenberg what musical he’d most like to see revived for a Broadway stage. His answer? Floyd Collins, a somewhat obscure but fiercely beloved show about an explorer, the titular Floyd Collins, who’s trapped 200 feet underground in a cave. Fast forward a decade and Eisenberg’s wish came true: for the first time since 1996, when Floyd Collins ran for three weeks at Playwrights Horizons, the show—with a...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/adam-guettel-tells-jesse-eisenberg-how-he-wrote-the-season-s-most-ambitious-musical-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e69be9209fbd4f4f337cd</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 02:11:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_e9a7a0e19ad94fa7ae8ab43c775e6e06~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jesse Eisenberg</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An heir to Broadway royalty returns to the Great White Way with an unlikely musical (2024)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adam Guettel’s adaptation of ‘Days of Wine and Roses’ is a story of love and addiction By Curt Schleier January 29, 2024 It started life as a teleplay. Then it became a film that earned its stars Lee Remick and Jack Lemon Oscar nods. Now, it lives again in what at first may seem its least likely incarnation: Days of Wine and Roses — the musical. The story of a couple’s descent into alcoholism is not the stuff typical Broadway musicals are made of. But somehow composer Adam Guettel and the...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/an-heir-to-broadway-royalty-returns-to-the-great-white-way-with-an-unlikely-musical</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e658cb2731dece7519a2f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 01:54:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_f5c15a42e98d4c4a93539a53aa91feb6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Curt Schleier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AussieTheatre exclusive:        Adam Guettel talks to us      about composing                                              The Light in the Piazza (2016)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the last two weeks, the lips of theatre fans Australia-wide have been talking only of one show: Life Like Company’s production of Adam Guettel’s classical masterpiece, The Light in The Piazza. In the lead up to opening night, AussieTheatre was offered an exclusive interview with Guettel, the lyricist, composer and orchestrator of Piazza, and took the opportunity to question him about the process of developing the score, when composition became his career, and why classical and...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/aussietheatre-exclusive-adam-guettel-talks-to-us-about-composing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e60329209fbd4f4f32338</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_514336b3ab6d468386943cf156f0a59e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_853,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Maddi Ostapiw</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interview: Adam Guettel.       Sondheim loves him—find out why (2014)]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you don't know Adam Guettel's name, that's not too surprising. His work has not been performed on a major stage in London. But among those who love their musical theatre in New York, there is no one whose talent is held in higher regard. Except that of the greatest living composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. And even he counts himself as one of Guettel's admirers. So much so that Sondheim once cited a song from Guettel's first musical Floyd Collins (1994) among those he wished he had...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/interview-adam-guettel-sondheim-loves-him-find-out-why-2014</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e67f8cb0791383ec412c8</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_a12a0bfbb1334828bba22bac34e7503a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>John Nathan</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composer Adam Guettel –                why he is drawn to cabaret (2014)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Composer, lyricist, performer, teacher and conservationist, Adam Guettel, a patron of the 2014 London Festival of Cabaret, will appear in concert and conversation with Maria Friedman at the Ambassadors Theatre on 20 and 21 May. Guettel’s musical The Light In The Piazza premiered on Broadway in 2005 and received six Tony Awards. Guettel also wrote music and lyrics for Floyd Collins, which received the 1996 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical and won him the Obie Award for Best Music. His...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/composer-adam-guettel-why-he-is-drawn-to-cabaret</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e632ecb0791383ec408b5</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_75e7de7746304bd6835aec12741f42f6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_682,h_592,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>musicaltheatrereview.com</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king and I - Adam Guettel interview (2009)]]></title><description><![CDATA[His grandfather was Broadway giant Richard Rodgers – now Adam Guettel is stepping out from his shadow Not many teenagers get to play their first composition to the greatest Broadway ­composer of all time. But when Adam Guettel started writing at the age of 14, he played his music loud enough for his grandfather, Richard Rodgers (of ­Rodgers and ­Hammerstein), to hear. "He was practically on his deathbed," Guettel says. "I played to him through the bedroom wall, and he told me he liked what he...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/the-king-and-i-his-grandfather-was-broadway-giant-richard-rodgers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e615984923565e06a4a80</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_9efb8759e87a45819db7026e943deb98~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_460,h_276,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Alfred Hickling</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Theatre Magazine:   Adam Guettel Faces the Music (2004)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will his lushly romantic new musical win him mainstream audiences?  An innocent young American woman and her wealthy, protective mother spend a glorious summer in Florence, seduced by Renaissance art, the Tuscan sun and the ragazzi. A handsome stranger sweeps the daughter off her feet and she savors her first, sweet taste of love. Her mother’s fears, meanwhile, about calculating, manipulative Italian men—it is 1958, after all—prove unfounded. Despite an unlucky misunderstanding (followed by a...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/american-theatre-magazine-adam-guettel-faces-the-music-2004</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e5c43cb0791383ec3f988</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_4c5e5c21a3db40f4a8599467026b4979~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_620,h_407,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Zavran</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Candle in the Dark (2003)]]></title><description><![CDATA[ADAM GUETTEL does not fit the stereotype of your traditional theater composer/lyricist. He isn’t some nutty eccentric, and neither does he appear interested in the role of the cosmopolitan dinner guest who can’t wait to entertain the rest of a Manhattan gathering with his latest musical bons mots. If anything, his measured passion, scruffy handsomeness, and complete lack of I’m-an-artist b.s. make him seem the ideal frontman for some ambitious rock band. This also helps to explain why he’s...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/a-candle-in-the-dark</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e6276b2731dece751944a</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2003 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_45ebe4ba2ff847bfa30e573d76101f8c~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_250,h_289,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Seligman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regional Reviews: Boston.          An Interview with Adam Guettel (2001)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Regional Reviews: Boston An Interview with Adam Guettel When teaching a master class at the Boston Center for the Arts last Saturday afternoon, Adam Guettel described the overlying theme of his musical Floyd Collins in these words: "We have dreams and we fail, and there's something noble in that." Luckily for us, Mr. Guettel has big dreams for the m usical theatre and, unlike the character of Floyd Collins, he is succeeding fully in achieving those dreams. Often categorized in the 'new...]]></description><link>https://www.adamguettel.com/post/regional-reviews-boston-an-interview-with-adam-guettel-2001</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e5ab6dd66a932defa8bc8</guid><category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2001 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a9c2e5_7602ff3665f74c64a8c4a23febe724b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_807,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ryan Defoe</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>