The light in the piazza is over??!?!?!

Oh my goodness, talk about missing out, i live in and london and i'm coming to new york in december, and silly old me assumed that the light in the piazza was a huge hit and would run forever! I am so upset, i've been waiting for months to see this show and now i never will. Please someone tell me they've made a mistake and it is still showing..... please....anyone??!?!

It closed on July 2nd.

It was a limited run. It was supposed to end last year, but it kept extending until it finally ended. It was a masterpiece that is certainly missed by many. It was shown live on TV on PBS' "Live From The Lincoln Center."

Can you buy the DVD???

If your trip to New York is the second half of December, the brilliant touring edition of the show (Daily Variety review on Wednesday actually said in many ways it is equal to or better than the original) will be in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center (December 19-January 7th)- an easy trip from NYC - so maybe you can catch it there with a quick train trip. It is well worth it. Before that it will be in Los Angeles Oct. 31-December 10).

It is replaced by "Legally BLonde the Musical"

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I think LITP was supposed to be a limited engagement anyway.

I think it recouped but I'm not sure.

Light in the Piazza was a non-profit production at Lincoln Center. It was not on a commercial contract, so the hit/flop status is not a factor.

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good to know. but it did make money. right?

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Sigh.

As has been stated, with a not-for-profit production, there are no profits or losses (in the commercial sense), which is why it can't be a hit or a flop and why you can't really say that it made or lost money. Not-for-profit economics are complicated to explain, but there are no investors to pay back, they simply have a budget made up from a combination of public and private donations, income from subscriptions and individual sales to the public. Some of that money is used to mount productions, but some is used to pay for salaries of staff, rents, capital improvements, office and utility costs, insurance, etc... plus money is set aside for the theatre's endowment. At the end of the year, any money that ticket sales brings in over and above what was budgeted towards production costs, simply goes back into the theatre and will be used towards future expenses.

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Updated On: 8/26/06 at 05:37 PM

Thanks, margo. I didn't realize it was non-profit, just limited. When it kept extending I assumed they were doing it for the profit.