Leaving The Piazza

[mijofly19]

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

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:57am

This is lovely. The show will be missed as will she

[kgee30]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:59am

Beautiful. 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.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 9:02am

that was truly lovely!
i got a li'l teary-eyed!

[WholeLottaShakin]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 9:17am

Very nice slideshow. I'm bringing Kleenex on Sunday, that's for sure.

[iluvtheatertrash]

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.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 10:26am

Just imagine the tears that will get released when Clara says the words "I can't leave you."

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 10:51am

The 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]

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.

[mrslovett7]

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.

[mrslovett7]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 11:26am

sorry!

how do I delete one?

[redhotinnyc2]

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.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 12:20pm

And 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...

[madbrian]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 12:42pm

I believe Michael Berresse will be playing Zach in A Chorus Line.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:16pm

I 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.

[BroadwayNick]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:09pm

When 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.

[marincrazy11]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:18pm

I 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.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:21pm

the light in the piazza, my light, my life, my love.

[&OneForMahler]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:46pm

The 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.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 6:40pm

Vicki, the light in the plaza......

[rosiecabaret]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 6:52pm

I 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]

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]

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

[Kungaloosh1937]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 11:29pm

Oh shut up, already.

[flaemmchen]

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.