The Light in the Piazza, 2005

The run closed July 2, 2006

Opened

April 18, 2005

Closed

July 2, 2006

Performances

504

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Vivian Beaumont Theater

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 45th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it19 named

David Bonanno
David Burnham
Prudence Wright Holmes
Jennifer Hughes
Felicity Lafortune
Michel Moinot
Kelli O Hara
Joseph Siravo
Katie Clarke

10 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters8 roles held

Christine Andreas Margaret Johnson
Kelli O'Hara Clara Johnson
Matthew Morrison Fabrizio Naccarelli
Michael Berresse Giuseppe Naccarelli
Sarah Uriarte Berry Franca Naccarelli
Diane Sutherland Signora Naccarelli
David Ledingham Signor Naccarelli
Beau Gravitte Roy Johnson

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Creative team

Director

Bartlett Sher

Choreographer

Jonathan Butterell

Orchestrations

Ted Sperling

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Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical

Nominated

Recordings 2 held for the work

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Around this production

The Light in the Piazza is a musical with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, and a book by Craig Lucas. Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the show is set in the 1950s and tells the story of Margaret Johnson, a wealthy woman from the American South, and Clara, her daughter, who is developmentally disabled due to a childhood accident. The two spend a summer together in Florence, Italy. When Clara falls in love with a young Italian man, Fabrizio, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own deep-seated hopes and regrets as well. The score breaks from the 21st century tradition of pop music on Broadway by moving into the territory of Neoromantic classical mu…

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What this page does not know

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• Which of the 2 recordings of The Light in the Piazza document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.