Adam Guettel is an American composer-lyricist of musical theater and opera. Guettel has written the Broadway musicals Floyd Collins, The Light in the Piazza, and Days of Wine and Roses.
Adam Guettel is the grandson of composer Richard Rodgers
Guettel was mentored and influenced by composer Stephen Sondheim
Guettel has collaborated with Bartlett Sher on The Light in the Piazza, The unmade The Princess Bride musical, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Millions.
Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. He received
Sondheim, c. 1976
Oscar Hammerstein c. 1940
Original Broadway production of West Side Story
Sondheim in New York, 1972