"The Light In The Piazza" is about a woman and her daughter on vacation in Italy. The daughter, because of an injury in her youth, has not progressed mentally past the age of eleven. She meets and falls in love with an Italian named Fabrizio, and the mother is left with the question of whether she should let her daughter to pursue love or to take her back to America to return to their former lives. Meanwhile, does she tell Fabrizio's family--all of whom react in their own ways to the intensity of this young love--about her daughter's injury?
The score is very complex, almost Britten-like in spots, but also ravishingly gorgeous. There is no way this will go up in NY without the absolutely incredible Victoria Clark starring as the mother. She absolutely rocked the house when the show played in Chicago. Whether or not the show is a hit in NY, this will make Victoria Clark a big-time star. Let's just hope they find a different director than Bartlett Sher, whose hand with the material was rather inept.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
