The Light in the Piazza

Heralded as a new direction for musical theater when it opened on Broadway, The Light in the Piazza won six Tony Awards, including Best Original Score for Adam Guettel (Days of Wine and Roses), who brought surprising chromatic complexity to his lush, operatic songs, and—with Tony-winning playwright Craig Lucas (An American in Paris)—took the adventurous step of including untranslated Italian lyrics and dialogue to better capture this cross-cultural love story.

“A work of such consummate beauty, truth, energy … you leave the theater filled with joy and revived by hope for the future.”
—The New York Observer

Tony-winning actress Ruthie Ann Miles (The King & I, City Center’s Sunday in the Park with George) leads the cast as an American mother on vacation in 1950s Florence with her daughter (Anna Zavelson, 13 Reasons Why) confronting painful memories and life-changing opportunities alike. Under the direction of Chay Yew (Cambodian Rock Band) and Guest Music Director Rob Berman (Into the Woods), this staged concert production also includes Shereen Ahmed (My Fair Lady), Andréa Burns (Encores! Dear World), Rodd Cyrus, James D. Gish (Wicked) and Ivan Hernandez (The Good Wife) as the Italian family whose lives are transformed by a chance encounter with a lost hat.