- Adam Guettel was born on December 16, 1964 in New York, New York, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Jack: The Last Kennedy Film (1993), Arguing the World (1997) and New Year's Day (1989).
- Last name rhymes with kettle.
- Son of writer/composer/lyricist Mary Rodgers
- Grandson of Broadway/film composer Richard Rodgers
- Began his career as a boy alto at the Metropolitan Opera (1975-1979), singing the roles of Yniold on Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande" and Feodor in Mussorgsky's "Boris Godonov."
- The scion of one of America's most distinguished musical families (Grandson of Richard Rodgers, son of Mary Rodgers), Adam Guettel has already established himself as a talented, original composer, primarily for the musical stage, where his play "Floyd Collins" has already won several prestigious awards.
- [observation, 2014] Being the grandson of Richard Rodgers and taking up a career in musical theatre seems a little bit Sisyphean. I'm perfectly sanguine about that at this point, perfectly comfortable. But when I was writing 'Floyd Collins' I think I was really trying to sort that out; 'What if I don't do as well as he did?'. I mean, he did so extraordinarily well - and when you're in your twenties you think you might actually do justice to that. Now I'm forty-nine, and I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen. But I love the work.
- Since my 20s, I've tried to learn a new instrument every couple of years. And when I say learn, I mean own. I'll buy one and then out of guilt I start trying to learn it. And I often find that some of my best music comes from the early stages with that new instrument, because I'm not bringing the great history of Paganini to the violin when I pick it up. Instead, I'm bringing some kind of scratchy, hanging-on-by-my-fingernails attempt to gain entry into that musical language.
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