He wanted to identify with the subject. You And Me, or her childrens book Freaky Friday which she adapted into the 1976 Jodi Foster movie. And I have to believe it is possible to write songs today that will be as universally comprehensible in our time as those songs were in theirs. The latest: a starry online mini-series. It's not pedantry; it's how Guettel hears, and in some sense tries to stabilize, his damaged world. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I might have had a small case of the usual Oh my God, I did go on a bit; Jesus, that needs help; boy, those lyrics are over couplet-y. Theres stuff that I was a little embarrassed by at first. asked Stephen Holden in his 1998 Times review. Looking like a beat poet or a heavy-lidded hustler, in jeans, disintegrating T-shirt and black leather jacket, Adam Guettel surfaces in the rare Seattle sun after a morning at the keyboard, his fingers actually bleeding. 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. We planned it in less than 10 days. Which may be why, as you track Guettel's work since the success of ''Floyd Collins,'' the terrain remains rocky. He interrupts himself to say that he was depressed but never was close to suicide. It is, finally, a theatrical family, and not just because the living room features Jo Mielziner's watercolors of his sets for ''Pal Joey'' and ''Pipe Dream.'' It might be damn near impossible to get all these people together for one night onstage.. That last was Rodgers: arguably the greatest American composer, and inarguably an alcoholic, a womanizer, an all-around tyrant. Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'arcy James. '', Another inherited burden. When I first asked Guettel about the possibility of ''bringing in'' what he calls his ''tender little experiment,'' he said: ''I don't care. Steve Cohen. Assistant to WebAdam Guettel is a composer/lyricist living in New York City. . ''I kind of faked that my voice was changing,'' he says now. Maybe two. If it comes to New York. Then I studied classical piano, fronted a rock band, then played upright acoustic bass in a jazz band. In this form, Myths and Hymns is probably reaching its largest audience yet. Anyone can read what you share. The new musical, with a book by Craig Lucas, will make its world premiere Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company in May. Gaudette told Vancouver Is Awesome in an October 2020 interview that he and his wife were both active gamers who often broadcast on Twitch. Green believes she felt under the thumb of his achievements for a very long time. Excerpts and links to the content may be used, on Richard Rodgers, Daughter Mary Rodgers and Grandson Adam Guettel at the 92nd St Y, Richard Rodgers, Daughter Mary Rodgers and Grandson Adam Guettel at the 92nd St Y, The Best of Broadway Past and Future. It took a long time for her to realize she was strong enough to stop it, to escape from the Stockholm syndrome shed lived with, tolerating him.. I wanted to preserve her voice as much as possible because she was such a delightful talker, so honest and funny.. He was raised in the almost chokingly sophisticated precincts of the Upper West Side, a cultural Brahmin and a (nonpracticing) Jew. Even in Seattle, the Intiman has bet the farm (''and some of the livestock,'' says Laura Penn, the theater's managing director) on a production that, at $1.1 million, is three times as expensive as its typical show. ''I've lost a good 20 percent of my singing ability by frying my voice with alcohol and cigarettes and pot. Its not a history, but it needed to be checked, and that took a long time, Green explains. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. She gave him a beaut: Call me back when hes dead. They had known each other for years, most of which she regretted. 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. ''He's emotionally free in his lyrics and in his music, certainly more so than Steve.'' The problem is that I dont speak `Floyd anymore. Just before his 29th birthday he heard about the myth that peoples lives can be changed every 29 years, when the planet Saturn returns from each of its orbits around the sun. Theyre clean and open, but theyre often in a different key from the vocal melody. ), 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. 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. ''I don't enjoy turning on or off a light switch without being slightly off the ground,'' he says, hopping on one foot. By the time I was 27 I was in recovery, but not authentically. Then I came across this book in an old antique shop, and it was a tiny book, the size of an iPhone. Jeffrey Vizcaino The principal singer was Guettel himself, joined by Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Jason Danieley, Billy Porter, Jubilant Sykes, Theresa McCarthy and conductor Ted Sperling. The gap between his secret reality and the beautiful world of his very public art almost swallowed up everyone standing nearby. What's unclear is whether anyone other than the superior singer-actors that Lucas and Guettel have assembled will ever be able to perform it. At the same time, though, the curtain is falling -- it's a brilliant stage picture -- between parent and child, as if to add that finding the way home can sometimes mean leaving it for good. Pretty much everyone who knew him and worked with him eventually had to disown him, including their great mutual friend, Stephen Sondheim. Rodgers relationship with Sondheim went into a seventh decade and ran a whole gamut of conflicting, if not colliding, emotions. Adam revealed his generosity in 2010 when the Prince Music Theater was in financial trouble and suspended operations. Painful things are dispensed so freely here, in such smart, neat proportions, that they might as well be martinis. This Myths and Hymns is a rare opportunity to hear Guettels music, which has been absent on Broadway since the lushly sensuous score of The Light in the Piazza resounded from the pit of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Off-Broadway hit musical Hamilton welcomed several major creative forces in the theatre this week when Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner stopped by the show as well as Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist Adam Guettel along with familiar theatrical songwriter Amanda Green and a new series of photos of the individuals posing with the creator of the show, Lin-Manuel Miranda, are now available to view. But by then he was also an addict. '', The botched opportunity was also a boon, diverting his musical impulses toward composing. But Guettel has a beautiful quality and the ability to negotiate ascending high scales with penetrating power. The Guettels' very lives seem to be part of a master ironist's dramatic design. 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.". Also when you're verbal and have ready access to silken prose, which only sometimes reflects what you're really thinking. I found it a little bit depressing.. I knew they were friends, but I did not know how deep it went, Green admits. (In one semiautobiographical song, a man abandons his pregnant girlfriend as she is about to have an abortion.) Even Rodgers's piano seemed desperate to escape: according to his daughter Mary Rodgers Guettel, who is Adam's mother, it flew from under his importunate fingers as he sat there composing during a California earthquake. As the grandson of Richard Rodgers and the son of Mary Rodgers (Once Upon a Mattress) Mr. Guettel understands why composers might be proprietary about their work. After leading Fedora earlier this season, the soprano is back at the Metropolitan Opera as Norma. Guettel regrets that he was born too late to interact with Rodgers in his prime. Then we both started composing, and were still friends. February 28, 2023, By As it happens, her memory was extraordinarily good, and I confirmed all of it much as she said it. I was not my father or my son.. 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. It is also a birthright. | (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.). Faced with Guettels reluctance, Hurwitz tells him: Humility can go only so far in this world.. . I spent hundreds of hours with her, laughing, and I wanted to duplicate that, Green says. He's done the damage. (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.) She was my most important teacher, he says. 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. To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker.We'd really appreciate it. Confronting Antisemitism on Broadway. Was this conceived as a virtual production from the start? So somewhere along the way she let her theatrical career slip away in favor of young-adult fiction (the ''Freaky Friday'' series) and the chairmanship of the Juilliard School. I dont know what I expected, Green admits, but it wasnt what I got. I was quite shocked when she told me of what was essentially their experimental one-year trial marriage. Rodgers was his maternal grandfather. Yoanna Nikolova, Copyright 1991-2023 Playbill Inc. All Rights Reserved. Or a master melodist's: Rodgers, dead almost a quarter century, still rakes in millions of dollars a year for his heirs and magnetizes them so completely with his monumental achievement that even if they turn away -- and despite their own achievements -- their very cells continue to align with him. Marys father Adams grandfather was the composer Richard Rodgers. Adam Guettel stood on the brink of a great career at the dawn of the 21st century. 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.. A date for opening night is to be announced. ''Myths and Hymns'' -- more a cycle of art songs than a musical -- was inspired by Greek mythology and an 1886 Presbyterian hymnal. It took a long time for her to realize she was strong enough to stop it, to escape from the Stockholm syndrome shed lived with, tolerating him., Of course, Laurents tentacles reached out in his final book, The Rest of the Story, and slapped Green for using Marys quote. A simple terror, at first: the superstitious habits began when, as a boy soprano singing Yniold in ''Pellas et Mlisande'' at the Met, or the middle spirit in New York City Opera's ''Magic Flute,'' he was desperate to keep his voice from the looming precipice. That was enough to keep me busy. But just try learning it without Guettel's longtime music director, Ted Sperling, hammering out the beats. Billy Stritch says that Guettel writes shoulder chords the kind that make pianists hunch their shoulders emotionally as they play. GUETTEL Youre operating on a patient whose anatomy youre not familiar with anymore. He came into the wings and said: What do I do next? He was, of course, referring to whats next on the play list, but he could have been speaking about his career. Of course, hes way ahead of me, because he has all that composing talent in his genes., But its those genes, or Adams thoughts about those genes, that led to some of his problems. Guettel and Lucas previously collaborated on the 2005 musical, withGuettel winning Tony Awards for his score and orchestrations, and Lucas receiving a Tony nod forhis book. This he does at least as consistently as any of his ''New Music Theater'' contemporaries, while maintaining a level of adventurousness that would impress most of his elders. The other instruments -- piano, violin, cello, bass -- aren't spared, either. Listening to Adam Guettels song cycle Myths and Hymns, after a year of pandemic isolation and cautiously hoping for vaccinated freedom, you might feel a pang More information on Hamilton is available at the official site here. SPERLING And one of them not even that! Either or both are possible. Hardly anyone heard of him before Floyd Collins had its premiere in Philadelphia in 1994. 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. In November 2020, a video from their wedding showing Gaudette delivering a roundhouse kick to his wife went viral on TikTok. He has been struggling to write a complicated new song this week -- also, depending on how you look at it, for three months or four years; four years is how long he's been working on ''The Light in the Piazza,'' a musical based on Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella. Writing for musical theater was not something I ever wanted to do; it was the family business, Adam Guettel, son of Mary Rodgers and grandson of Richard Rodgers, is quoted as saying in Rodgers, Rodgers and Guettel: Statues and Stories, the latest hour of words and music performed by pianist Paul Masse and a roster of eight terrific singers including Telly Leung and Julia Murney in the 50thanniversary season of the 92ndStreet Ys Lyrics and Lyricists series. 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. I'd like to be happy, if only to be able to be kind. She didnt want to compose music, Green believes she felt under the thumb of his achievements for a very long time. Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas ' new musical Days of Wine and Roses has set a world premiere at Off Anyone can whistle a happy tune. 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. 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. ''Still is.''. Manage Settings But that makes his songs more interesting on repeated hearings. I did stuff that was tried and true. I wanted a lot of directors, a lot of input, a lot of difference. Lyrics by Adam Guettel. . Gaudette told the media in October 2020 that he and Robinson had moved in with his parents in Quincy, Massachusetts, during the off-season. And if the anguish and ameliorations of art are an old story, there's a reason we're still interested in why creative types suffer. Music orchestrated by Adam Guettel. About Last Night, Terry Teachout (inactive), Everything I Know I Learned from Musicals, Chris Caggiano (inactive). 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. In fact, she was a firm critic of his writing. Here are edited excerpts from that conversation. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. Adam received two Tonys in 2005 for Guettel?'' I dont know what I expected, Green admits, but it wasnt what I got. 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). you can pay for dinner. That was Mary Rodgers stock response whenever a dining companion reached for the tab. SPERLING Were at over 50,000 now, which is way more than we would get in a season. Among the directors who contributed to the production was the imaginative Doug Fitch, who guided the hallucinatory Every Poodle., conclude Wednesday with the premiere of Faith., It will be one of the hottest tickets in town. 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. Directed by Daniel Aukin, the work follows a father-daughter road trip that turns out to be much more than what's on the surface. The odd thing is that Guettel resents the acclaim (and the presumption of deserving it) almost as much as anyone else. Guettel traveled to Kentucky to research the terrain. She put together a commencement Rene Rapp, Jacquel Spivey, Auli'i Cravalho, and more are starring in the upcoming film based on the 2018 Broadway musical. Gaudette has removed his shirt at this point. But the less familiar are more intriguing. | As of the year 1999, his situation can best be summed up with an exchange that occurred during the Town Hall program. Some people felt she was too self-depreciating about her own talent. It was his mother who suggested that he musicalize the story -- but not before having suggested the same thing, back in the 60's, to her father. I had addictions to alcohol and drugs.. 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. Seventy years later, Guettel perfects his own means of escape -- emotional, technological, aesthetic. He admits to feeling pressure from the fame of his grandfather, the composer of Oklahoma!, Carousel, King and I, et al. Gaudette said that Robinson largely built a gaming PC for his birthday. The clip took part in a TikTok challenge involving the song Oh No by Capone that sees users post videos of embarrassing moments. ''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. Then he shows me how pencils and other objects on his desk must be aligned along inscrutable axes only he can perceive. And that'' -- he shuts his eyes -- ''is tiring.''. And my 20s were somewhat dissipated. February 28, 2023, By 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. Myths and Hymns, a Theater Cult Favorite, Changes Shape Again, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/theater/myths-and-hymns-mastervoices.html. I asked him if I was any good. ! Gaudette told Sportsnet in a May 2020 interview that the couples original plan was to have a wedding with more than 200 guests in July 2020 but they amended their plans due to the COVID quarantine. When he was 13, just as he was about to star in the Met radio broadcast of ''Pellas'' and a television movie of ''Amahl and the Night Visitors,'' his voice, despite the years of superstitious habits, finally broke. Though appearing casual and relaxed on stage, Guettel was a nervous wreck. He doesn't deny that a New York production would help further both goals; New York is where he and his collaborator, Tina Landau, polished ''Floyd Collins'' to a high gloss and where it received the kind of acclaim that translates into heavy listening and licensing. encounter with Mary Rodgers was to get a quote from her about playwright and director Arthur Laurents for a piece he was doing in, magazine. 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. Each song was treated as its own project, with its own concept. Thats who he was. Please consider supporting us bywhitelisting playbill.com with your ad blocker.Thank you! 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. Arlen (Over the Rainbow,Blues in the Night) couldnt compete with Bing Crosby or Perry Como in the vocal marketplace. Best night of my life and a dream come true. Adam, can you explain how Myths and Hymns took this form to begin with? ''The writer's craft is one; his soul is another. Its a song that demands to be captioned, which drives home an important point: It is simply unacceptable that a video series entitled Lyrics and Lyricists does not offer closed captioning. (And Guettel is not only a piano man; he also plays guitar, bass fiddle and electric bass. '', Guettel publishes his work under the corporate name Matthew Music; if death was the beginning of his voice, vice was not far behind. 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 The New York Times, off and on, for a decadetill her death in 2014 at the age of 83. as Satine. If you try to monkey with it too much from a later perspective you run the rusk of muddying the waters. 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 They are surprising and at the same time not so; ''Love to Me'' may be in an abstruse meter but, beneath its skin, as if genetically programmed, it has conventional A-A-B-A bones. ''In the last three years I've been in rehab twice, but basically it's been a pretty rough ride. It was also right after that, after Matthew died, that Adam one day started singing 'The 59th Street Bridge Song' -- note perfect. Showing Editorial results for adam guettel. WebPhoto c/o Polk and Co.) Victoria Clark is a Tony Award-winning actress, director and educator. The perfect way to visit San Juan, Puerto Rico. So there were these two stacks of things. And because of the matrix of drugs and sex. The production will feature scenic design by Lizzie Clachan, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by Ben Stanton, sound design by Kai Harada, andorchestrations by Guettel. Micaela Robinson, Adam Gaudettes Wife: 5 Fast Facts | Heavy.com A few days ago I messed that up with my own stupidity and selfishness. Her parents found out this might be the case and warned her about him, Green says. 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. While working on one of them, he was asked by Rodgers to play it louder; though the old man said he liked it, Guettel discounts the compliment: ''He was literally on his deathbed on the other side of the living-room wall.'' He does so, and laughs, as if at the antics of a not-quite-funny but tolerated drunk. Major Broadway creatives are coming out for HAMILTON! He was not yet 2. 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 said, rather kindly, 'You have your own voice,' and the elevator doors closed. Sondheim himself listed ''The Riddle Song'' from ''Floyd Collins'' -- almost nine minutes of unimpeded joy -- among those he most wishes he'd written himself. Mariand Torres sings Shy impeccably. The couple dressed both dressed as different versions of The Joker character from The Dark Knight. Still, Adam worried that the May concert would have to be canceled because of lack of ticket sales. Town Hall is a large theater and theres no subscription base. She was tough on me about putting a sentence together and what a melody is supposed to be. Today he still has no formal religion, but his quest helped him start to feel hopeful about his future. And theres the honor of being a composer who wrote something 22 years ago thats getting done again. Still, the baton was passed, and the boy took off fast. 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. 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. And thats what Myths and Hymns does for me.. What I got was Mary and her husband, Henry Guettel, oversharing about Adam and themselves. ''Including pretending to get a hangover, smoking leaves off trees, sniffing mimeographed tests. What few can learn, few can love. And then someone offered me Vicodin. ''I don't hesitate to put him up there with the best,'' says Arthur Laurents, who is Guettel's godfather but would not let that stop him if the opportunity for criticism arose. Repeatedly Guettel talks about how all the music he wrote before Floyd Collins went unheard. We did it!! Meet the Cast of SWEENEY TODD, Now in Previews on Broadway! Here is a glance back, as I continue to yearn for new chords from his creative mind. WebOpera Santa Barbaras Chrisman Studio Artists present the acclaimed musical by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas. Grandpa was in the right place at the right time. 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 Then came almost four years of sobriety, during which I finished 'Myths and Hymns,' put it on at the Public Theater, did some documentary scores and also wrote the first three or four songs for 'Piazza.' But she was not bound by traditional ways of thinking. Previews of the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical's revival were met by neo-Nazi protesters. These are mostly familiar songs, finely delivered Nikki Renee Daniels sings Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered from Pal Joey; Telly Leung Youve Got To Be Carefully Taught from South Pacific. She gave him a beaut: Call me back when hes dead. They had known each other for years, most of which she regretted. 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. For now, though, Guettel has been able to revisit some of his earliest music, and in a new medium. Some try to eat their piano-playing fingers, some cut off their ears, some stash liquor in the toilet tank to ensure access to oblivion. She had a healthy understanding of what her fathers once-in-a-generation gift was about, and that it would be ridiculous for someone who knew music as well as she did and had grown up around it to not put herself in a different category. Later, indoors, he will demonstrate some of his other nervous habits, which may qualify, he cheerily admits, as obsessive-compulsive tics. We will be the strongest.. There are many ways a legacy can turn out to be a burden, and Richard Rodgers's legacy to his heirs has succeeded at all of them. 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. I went through all that stuff before I ended up realizing that writing for character and telling stories through music was something that I really loved to do. And Murney sings Something Good from the film for the Sound of Music, one of the songs late in life for which he wrote his own lyrics. Kristin Chenoweth said to him: First, just stop and breathe.. Having the piano or orchestral part in a different key from the vocal does create a minor dissonance, true. I was an abject, drug-addled wretch, shades drawn, not eating, watching TV all day. 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