The Light in the Piazza
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 18, 2005
Closed Jul 2, 2006
Opened Apr 18, 2005
Closed Jul 2, 2006
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Running Time:
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Light in the Piazza takes place in Florence, Italy, in the summer of 1953. A beautiful and innocent young tourist loses her hat in a gust of wind. It lands at the feet of a handsome young Florentine. They fall in love. As their relationship develops the girl's mother must reveal the truth that will surely test that love. It's Broadway's newest love story--with a thrilling score filled with honest emotion and soaring romantic melodies.
This new musical features music and lyrics by Adam Guettel winner of the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, and a book by Craig Lucas. Bartlett Sher directs.
The Light on the Piazza received 6 Tony Awards including Best Score (Adam Guettel) and Best Leading Actress in a musical (Victoria Clark).
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Vivian Beaumont Theater
150 W 65th St
New York, NY 10023
This Broadway theater, which opened in 1965 at the then-astronomical price of $9,700,000, has the benefit of not being smack in the middle of congested Times Square. The auditorium has a spacious concrete shell with excellent sightlines.
150 W 65th St
New York, NY 10023
This Broadway theater, which opened in 1965 at the then-astronomical price of $9,700,000, has the benefit of not being smack in the middle of congested Times Square. The auditorium has a spacious concrete shell with excellent sightlines.
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Adam Guettel knows how to write thrilling finales. We already knew this when we heard "How Glory Goes," the ravishing prayer that ends his Floyd Collins score; and now we have "Fable," the rapturous aria that's floated just before Guettel's new musical The Light in the Piazza concludes. The brilliant-bordering-on-genius tunesmith has supplied a generous number of other jubilant songs for this long-awaited project, and his talent for melodic beauty is immeasurably beneficial to its love story.
It must be in the genes, since Guettel is the son of Mary Rodgers and the grandson of Richard Rodgers. He may want that lineage downplayed when he's reviewed, but he apparently doesn't get away from it[...]