Leaving The Piazza
Leaving The Piazza
mijofly19
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/05
#0Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:50am
I searched and didn't see this posted.
A very nice video slideshow with Victoria:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/06/29/theater/20060629_CLARK_FEATURE.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1151582254-EgeGAY6b7bfNvWztnbde+A
#1re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:57am
This is lovely. The show will be missed as will she 
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
kgee30
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/04
#2re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:59amBeautiful. Thank God it's a holiday weekend so I have something to think about other than this show ending. Obsessive, I know, but there it is.
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 9:17amVery nice slideshow. I'm bringing Kleenex on Sunday, that's for sure.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#5re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 10:09am
I haven't really spoken to anyone about my feelings on the closing. And I probably never will besides a journal entry.
Seeing this close is incredibly difficult as this show has changed my life.
I had the opportunity to go to closing and chose against it. I want to remember the show the last way I saw it - beautifully, thrillingly performed. I want to remember the joy I experienced in watching it, not the pain as I try to hold back sobs as I watch it close.
As stupid and silly as it sounds, I can't even begin to imagine how painful Sunday is going to be for those of you who will be there.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#6re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 10:26amJust imagine the tears that will get released when Clara says the words "I can't leave you."
#7re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 10:51amThe whole second act will be very emotional on closing night, cast and audience alike. It will be a heartwrenching sight to see. I'm sad to see this show go, and wish I could be there on closing night.
mrslovett7
Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#8re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 11:24am
I still can't believe it's leaving. I truly believe it is the most beautiful score of music ever written. I hold this show so close to my heart and because I am so close to my mother, it really touched me in a way other musicals have not.
I really want to go and see it off but i don't know if I could take it haha, i would be sitting there sobbing and, "holding my little tissue" as Victoria said when she told me she saw me the night I saw it.
~H*
"I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!"
-Michael Cerveris
mrslovett7
Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#9re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 11:24am
I still can't believe it's leaving. I truly believe it is the most beautiful score of music ever written. I hold this show so close to my heart and because I am so close to my mother, it really touched me in a way other musicals have not.
I really want to go and see it off but i don't know if I could take it haha, i would be sitting there sobbing and, "holding my little tissue" as Victoria said when she told me she saw me the night I saw it.
~H*
"I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!"
-Michael Cerveris
mrslovett7
Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#10re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 11:26am
sorry!
how do I delete one?
~H*
"I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!"
-Michael Cerveris
#11re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 12:12pm
I cannot even begin to express how deeply this show has affected me as a human being and as a performer. I have not only learned so much by watching these gifted actors giving that gift back during each performance, but also about life in general, feeling, desire, need, hope, charity, prosperity, ...the well of emotion elicited by this script and score, in my mind, may never be topped. I agree with Victoria, in the hope that the people who see this show will take with them the desire to allow new and groundbreaking works like this one continue to grow and prosper, creating our own sense of theatrical history.
I am in awe of each and every person connected with The Light In The Piazza.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#12re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 12:20pmAnd much luck to them in the future endeavors! Can't wait to see what they choose to do next! I recall reading that Aaron Lazar will be Enjolras in the return of Les Miz to Broadway...
#13re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 12:42pmI believe Michael Berresse will be playing Zach in A Chorus Line.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#14re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:16pmI saw the matinee yesterday, and it was one of the greatest theatrical experiences of my life. Everybody was spot on, and leagues better than they were on television. Katie Clarke did not miss a single note, and sounded beautiful, and Victoria delivered the performance of a lifetime.
#15re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:09pmWhen she said that this show should become part of the "canon" of those great shows she was dead on! This is one show that should not die away.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone
amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
--Dave Berry
#16re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:18pmI love this show. I am so sad to see it go....truly one the most influential, inspirational, awe-inspiring, and amazing experiences I have had in the theatre. I can't explain how much this show has changed my life. Exceptional in every way. I will hold the memory of seeing this show in my heart forever....it is something i can never forget. Here's to The Light In The Piazza always shining brightly in the hearts and minds of everyone whom it has touched.
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee
"It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#17re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:21pmthe light in the piazza, my light, my life, my love.
&OneForMahler
Understudy Joined: 6/27/06
#18re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:46pmThe Light in the Piazza is one of the most amazing shows I have ever seen. It's beautiful in every sence of the word, and I am so sad to see it go. I'm glad that it will be touring though, and I'm sure it's a show that people will be talking about for years to come.
<--- me & Erin Davie =)
omigod, omigod you guys...
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
rosiecabaret
Swing Joined: 4/17/06
#20re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 6:52pmI just saw this show last weekend at it was AMAZING! I talked to Victoria after the show and she came out with stuff from her dressing room, she was late cleaning it out. I felt so bad because it's a great show with amazing talent and I don't want it to close!
LadyLizaElliott
Swing Joined: 5/21/06
#21re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:51pm
I just bought the soundtrack today after seeing it on PBS and not being able to stop thinking about it! I will be quite sad to not be able to see this show! I even want to try and peice together a monologue from Margaret for my upcoming college auditions!
Here's to LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA!
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#22re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 11:16pm
Please, let the g-d thing close so we can be done with it already! Basta!!
Winthrop Paroo
River City, Iowa
#24re: Leaving The Piazza
Posted: 6/29/06 at 11:33pm
TheEnchantedHunter: You don't like the show, you don't have to post on the thread! Yes, we technically have the freedom to post what we want here, but you should still think before you post.
I saw the show last weekend for my last time and cried like a baby. Broadway is really losing something special on Sunday, but there is the tour and the PBS broadcast.
"Peace! The charm's wound up."
--Macbeth
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