Light in the Piazza question--SPOILERS UP AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Light in the Piazza question--SPOILERS UP AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#1Light in the Piazza question--SPOILERS UP AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 11/4/06 at 12:20pm
This is gonna sound dumb but why do Margaret and Signor Nacarelli kiss towards the end of the show. Is it the heat of the moment? Are they just two people who know that they're in dead end marriages and so they're just drawn to each other? What is it?
Also, if Clara is 26 in the show, unless my math is totally off (and it is also my weakest subject), she would have to have been born in 1927 well before World War II which was when Margaret and Roy took their honeymoon to Florence. Is this just an anachronism? Or is it something more?
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#1re: Light in the Piazza question--SPOILERS UP AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 11/4/06 at 12:24pm
"she would have to have been born in 1927 well before World War II which was when Margaret and Roy took their honeymoon to Florence. Is this just an anachronism? Or is it something more?"
I don't think the people involved in the show thought that hard about things like that.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#2re: Light in the Piazza question--SPOILERS UP AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 11/4/06 at 12:27pmClearly they didn't. I mean, is that whole bit in the book.
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#3re: Light in the Piazza question--SPOILERS UP AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 11/4/06 at 12:29pm
As to Clara, yes they boo-boo'd on her age. Because otherwise you don't know what War they are talking about. The American one in the 1930's? I don't think so. Unless it was FDR's war on poverty.
There is some slight ambiguity during the phone call (paraphrased) "When we had to be apart. In the war, when Clara was first--", but you have to think it means born rather than injured because otherwise it would be a very unhappy reference to the separation and it does not seem to be in that way.
As to the kiss deal with Margaret, that is supposed to be a racy thing that audiences will still tolerate for a married woman. Woo.
Updated On: 11/4/06 at 12:29 PM
#4re: Light in the Piazza question--SPOILERS UP AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 11/4/06 at 12:38pm
the "story" of Light in the Piazza is absolutly dreadful.
and only the fantastic score, fantastic performances, and excellent sets made the show
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#5re: Light in the Piazza question--SPOILERS UP AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 11/4/06 at 12:42pm
I think the book is a piece of genius work by Craig Lucas and the story is interesting.
Could it have a little imperfection here or there? Yes, but they are fun to find.
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