The "LIGHT" goes out! — Page 7

yeah i'm sad that it's closed too!!!

I was moved so many times, but during "Fable," when Victoria turned at the very end to look at the light, and put her hands to her face as she said "Clara, the light in the piazza..."

My heart broke.

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Dottie, speaking of the hand gestures you may find it interesting that Katie does a lot of gesturing and unconscious movements with her left hand in the show, even though Katie is right-handed. Somewhere along the way she decided Clara was a leftie, but doesn't exactly remember when. So manyof those little things, such as imitating the paintings, she doesn't realize until someone tells her.

This is being super-picky, but when Katie's shoe came off during "Clara's Interlude" I really wanted her to take the other one off like a child might do and run around in just her stockings.

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L4C, she didn't want to pull off the other one, and then have to put both back on while trying to do other stuff. She figured that one coming off she could slip back into, whereas if she took the other off she would have to slow the show down to get back into them. As it was, the conductor, Kim, did a fantastic job waiting for her to run back and pick it up. The orchestra was awesome on the final show, working with and through both the shoe incident and the long audience clapping.

It was a wonderful way for Katie to have put her stamp on the role.

Like Dottie said earlier, each time I saw it, I discovered a new piece of music, and how it tied pieces of the show together.

I love when Clara introduces erself to Fabriozio on that musical line, and how it's repeated in the title song, as well as "Fable."

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I think it's time to light up the TIVO (again) and watch Piazza tonight.

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I agree, Addy. I feel blessed to have seen this show as many times as I did and to have attended the final performance. Definitely the best show I've seen in years. I'm going to miss PIAZZA so much. Thank goodness I recorded the TV broadcast.

A further testament to the niceness of Katie Clarke...

I wrote Katie a letter the day after the PBS telecast telling her how much I enjoyed her performance. A friend of mine was at the final performance Sunday, and I had her ask Katie if she got my letter. My friend told me that Katie wanted her to pass along a thank you to me for writing and that she hadn't checked her mail in forever but would just for me to find my letter. I figured I would probably not hear from her, but whatdya know, today I recieved a signed headshot and handwritten note from Katie!

What a sweet girl. I hope she comes back to Broadway soon! (She said she had no immediate plans yet, except for getting her thigns together in Houston and permanently moving to New York.)

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I'm totally with you, Kor. I loved watching David Burnham when he was the waiter at the beginning of "Passeggiata," him checking out Clara. So cute. And the look of confused expectancy on Kelli's face when Margaret said, "Tomorrow is the ring," during the dress rehearsal scene. What I loved most about this production, in addition to the music and story, was how real the world felt to me. I used to say to friends (in trying to get them to see the show with me) that I felt as if I could go to Italy and *actually* meet these people, that they didn't seem like just characters. The cast was truly successful in creating a world you believed in.

This is the only reason I wish that I had Tivo.

I don't think they plan on releasing it on DVD (I am praying they do).

So sad.

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