The guests at Tony-winning composer Adam Guettel’s final party at his mahogany-paneled pad at The Osborne had a hard time understanding why he is putting it on the market.
The Tiffany-windowed duplex, kitty-cornered from Carnegie Hall, has five fireplaces, where Bobby Short and Leonard Bernstein once warmed themselves. The asking price is $5.5 million. Going with Guettel is the piano that belonged to his grandfather Richard Rodgers — yes, the same one who composed the music for “South Pacific,” “The King and I,” “The Sound of Music” and so many more classic shows.
“Homeland” actress Amy Hargreaves (she plays Claire Danes’s sister) and USA Network founder Kay Koplovitz learned that Guettel, who composed the Tony-winning “The Light in the Piazza,” has a good reason for selling: his wedding last month to singer Haley Bond.
“I want to get a new place,” said Guettel, “so Haley can put her own stamp on it.”
Hopefully it’ll have high ceilings: The sinewy chanteuse is also a silk aerialist. “I took it up,” Bond told co-host, business consultant JJ McKay, “to fight my fear of heights.”