Into the Hoods | "The Riddle Song" by Adam Guettel is one of the best Act 1 Finales. @into_the_hoods | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In this video, we will talk about "The Riddle Song" from Adam Guettel's 1994 musical Floyd Collins. It is one of the best Act 1 finales of a musical, and it is a song that Sondheim himself said he wished he had written.
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This is Part 2 of the Guettel series.
Part 1 is about Guettel's new musical "Days of Wine and Roses" now playing on Broadway. youtu.be/2hY0t0_KFeU?si=wOyI3aSY01WfBAJ8
Part 3, coming soon, will look a bit into Guettel's most famous work "The Light in the Piazza".
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Background music provided by EJM Instrumentals (Youtube)
New Line Theatre article: newlinetheatre.com/floyd.html
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
00:49 - Who is Adam Guettel?
02:32 - The Story of Floyd Collins
04:56 - Music Analysis
13:24 - Conclusion