The run closed July 2, 2006
- Opened
- 2005
- Closed
- July 2, 2006
- Performances
- 504
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theater
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 43rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it19 named
David Bonanno
David Burnham
Beau Gravitte
Prudence Wright Holmes
Jennifer Hughes
Felicity Lafortune
Michel Moinot
Kelli O Hara
Joseph Siravo
Katie Clarke
9 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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 recorded
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 |
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
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Light in the Piazza at all.
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