To hear Julie Garnyé tell the story of just how influential Seth Rudetsky was in her career, you might think it is one of those cases of being in the right place at the right time.

And it could have been except that the two first met nearly twenty years ago—quite by chance—which led to an invitation by Rudetsky to hear her sing. It was during that initial session that he urged her to consider the songs of Liz Callaway and everything that Jason Robert Brown ever wrote.