The Light in the Piazza
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 5, 2010
Closed Apr 11, 2010
Opened Mar 5, 2010
Closed Apr 11, 2010
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While touring Florence with her mother, Clara meets by chance the handsome Fabrizio. As their tender romance blossoms, Clara's mother struggles to conceal a family secret which may put an end to Clara's happiness as well as to her own. Arena's own Molly Smith directs an intimate version of the musical that won six Tony Awards (including Best Score). Aided by the lush music of Adam Guettel (Floyd Collins), Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss) has distilled Elizabeth Spencer's novella to a poignant tale about the essence of love, critics have hailed as "absolutely transfixing" (San Francisco Chronicle).
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What happens when the strongest asset of the show is diluted? Such is the case with Arena Stage's scaled-back production of The Light in the Piazza, the Tony Award-winning musical about love in Italy between a female American tourist with special "challenges" and a young Italian man.
Here, the orchestrations for Adam Guettel's sumptuous score -- blending traditional musical theater styles with the refinement of light opera and more than a dash of Italian inflection and lyrics -- have been pared to a bare minimum. That choice, by director Molly Smith, exposes the uneven seams of Craig Lucas' weakly crafted story (based on Elizabeth Spencer's novella). Even Smith's usually sure hand canno[...]