The Light in the Piazza

Synopsis

On a trip to Florence, an innocent American girl finds love with a handsome young Italian. An anxious mother must reveal the truth that will test her daughter’s relationship - and her own heart’s willingness to find love again. Winner of six Tony Awards

Our Review:

7 May 2009

Musical theatre fans across the UK should book their train tickets to Leicester quick. The six-time, Tony Award-winning 2005 Broadway musical finally receives its European premiere here, finding a welcoming and comfortable home at the recently opened state-of-the-art Curve.

The Light in the Piazza - which has music and lyrics by Adam Guettel (spiritual son of Stephen Sondheim and actual grandson of Richard Rodgers no less) and book by Craig Lucas - is a story of love, of naïve passion, of fading unity and of retrospective regret.

Set predominantly in Florence during the summer of 1953, it relates the meeting of Clara (Caroline Sheen), a young American tourist on vacation with her doting, protective mother Margaret (Lucy Schaufer) and Fabrizio (Matt Rawle), a dashing Florentine youth exuding passion, enthusiasm and spontaneity. It’s a mutual love at first sight, blind to all and any difficulties that life and fate conspir...

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Stevie - 27 December 2012:

as we near 2013! I'd love to hear any comments on how well this show did, audiences? The half-full show was maybe a matinee? ...

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