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The Light in the Piazza (musical)
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- For the novel and subsequent film version, see The Light in the Piazza
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| Music | Adam Guettel |
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| Lyrics | Adam Guettel |
| Book | Craig Lucas |
| Based upon | Novella by Elizabeth Spencer The Light in the Piazza |
| Productions | 2005 Broadway 2006 US National Tour |
| Awards | 2005 Tony Award for Best Score Drama Desk Outstanding Music |
The Light in the Piazza is a musical with a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel.
Based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, it is set in Florence and Rome in the summer of 1953. A young American tourist, Clara Johnson, meets and falls for young Italian Fabrizio Naccarelli. When Clara's mother Margaret learns of the affair, she opposes it for reasons that only gradually become known to the audience.
The score breaks from the traditional Broadway sound of hummable tunes by veering into the territory of Neoromantic classical music and opera, with unexpected harmonic shifts and extended melodic structures, and is lushly scored for piano, harp, guitar, and strings, alongside a handful of wind and percussionists. The lyrics are unique in that many of them are in Italian and broken English, as many of the characters are fluent only in Italian.
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The Light in the Piazza was developed as a musical at the Intiman Playhouse in Seattle and then at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. After 36 previews, the Broadway production opened on April 18, 2005 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center, where it ran for 504 performances and closed on July 2, 2006. Directed by Bartlett Sher and choreographed by Jonathan Butterell, the cast featured Victoria Clark, Kelli O'Hara, and Matthew Morrison. Chris Sarandon joined the cast as Signor Naccarelli later in the run, and Aaron Lazar was a replacement in the role of Fabrizio Naccarelli.
On June 15, 2006, shortly before its closing night, the show was broadcast on the PBS television series Live from Lincoln Center.
A national tour starring Christine Andreas (Margaret) and Elena Shaddow (Clara) started in San Francisco, Ca, in August 2006 and ended in Chicago, Il, on July 22, 2007.
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- Tony Awards
- Tony Award for Best Original Score (WINNER)
- Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Clark, WINNER)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical (WINNER)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical (WINNER)
- Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical (WINNER)
- Tony Award for Best Orchestrations (WINNER)
- Tony Award for Best Musical (nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Morrison, nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (O'Hara, nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (nominee)
- Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Clark, (WINNER)
- Outstanding Music (WINNER)
- Outstanding Orchestrations (WINNER)
- Outstanding Set Design of a Musical (WINNER)
- Outstanding Lighting Design (WINNER)
- Outstanding Musical (nominee)
- Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Morrison, nominee)
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Berry, nominee)
- Outstanding Director of a Musical (nominee)
- Outstanding Costume Design (nominee)
- Outstanding Sound Design (nominee)
- Outstanding Lighting Design (WINNER)
- Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Clark, (WINNER)
- Outstanding Musical (nominee)
- Outstanding Director of a Musical (nominee)
- Outstanding Set Design (nominee)
- Outstanding Costume Design (nominee)
- Outstanding Lighting Design (nominee)
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Morrison, nominee)
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Berresse, nominee)
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Harelik, nominee)
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Berry, nominee)
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (O’Hara, nominee)
- The Light in the Piazza in the Internet Broadway Database
- Official homepage
- Interview from Studio 360 radio program
- Official Piazza tour website
- Bartlett Sher (director) Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org, July 2006
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| Preceded by Avenue Q by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez |
Tony Award for Best Original Score 2005 by Adam Guettel |
Succeeded by The Drowsy Chaperone by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison |
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