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    This is the dialogue from the musical/opera "LIght In The Piazza." The Light in the Piazza is a musical with a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the story is set in the 1950s and revolves around Margaret Johnson, a wealthy Southern woman and her emotionally stalled daughter, Clara, who spend a summer together in Italy. When Clara falls in love with a young Italian man, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own deep seated hopes and regrets as well. The score breaks from the 21st century tradition of pop music on Broadway by moving into the territory of Neoromantic classical music and opera, with unexpected harmonic shifts and extended melodic structures, and is more heavily orchestrated than most Broadway scores. It is also perhaps the only bilingual Broadway musical. Many of the lyrics are in Italian or broken English, as many of the characters are fluent only in Italian.

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    This is the dialogue from the musical/opera "LIght In The Piazza." The Light in the Piazza is a musical with a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the story is set in the 1950s and revolves around Margaret Johnson, a wealthy Southern woman and her emotionally stalled daughter, Clara, who spend a summer together in Italy. When Clara falls in love with a young Italian man, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own deep seated hopes and regrets as well. The score breaks from the 21st century tradition of pop music on Broadway by moving into the territory of Neoromantic classical music and opera, with unexpected harmonic shifts and extended melodic structures, and is more heavily orchestrated than most Broadway scores. It is also perhaps the only bilingual Broadway musical. Many of the lyrics are in Italian or broken English, as many of the characters are fluent only in Italian.

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    This is the dialogue from the musical/opera "LIght In The Piazza." The Light in the Piazza is a musical with a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the story is set in the 1950s and revolves around Margaret Johnson, a wealthy Southern woman and her emotionally stalled daughter, Clara, who spend a summer together in Italy. When Clara falls in love with a young Italian man, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own deep seated hopes and regrets as well. The score breaks from the 21st century tradition of pop music on Broadway by moving into the territory of Neoromantic classical music and opera, with unexpected harmonic shifts and extended melodic structures, and is more heavily orchestrated than most Broadway scores. It is also perhaps the only bilingual Broadway musical. Many of the lyrics are in Italian or broken English, as many of the characters are fluent only in Italian.

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    Light in The Piazza - Dialogue Only

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    Brian Telestai
    This is the dialogue from the musical/opera "LIght In The Piazza." The Light in the Piazza is a musical with a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the story is set in the 1950s and revolves around Margaret Johnson, a wealthy Southern woman and her emotionally stalled daughter, Clara, who spend a summer together in Italy. When Clara falls in love with a young Italian man, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own deep seated hopes and regrets as well. The score breaks from the 21st century tradition of pop music on Broadway by moving into the territory of Neoromantic classical music and opera, with unexpected harmonic shifts and extended melodic structures, and is more heavily orchestrated than most Broadway scores. It is also perhaps the only bilingual Broadway musical. Many of the lyrics are in Italian or broken English, as many of the characters are fluent only in Italian.

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    The Light in the Piazza book by CRAIG LUCAS music and lyrics by _ ADAM GUETTEL directed by BARTLETT SHER Lincoln Center Theater Apeil 15, 2005 219105) 1 ACT ONE a (OVERTURE) Li. Piazza Signoria (Florence, 1953, summer. Margaret Johnson— an elegant, self: possessed, practical and attractive woman in middle age — views her daughter Clara — 26, looks and acts younger, carrying a sketchpad — across the piazza.) CLARA Mother? What happened here? MARGARET (to the audience) What did happen here? I played a tricky game ina foreign country? ... What did I do? CLARA Mother? vw? MARGARET What happened? Wellll, let’s see ... (She consults her Baedeker) (2/1205) 2 (STATUES AND STORIES) MARGARET ON A CENTRAL SQUARE IN A CITY OF THE SUN ROSE A PALACE IT WAS HIGH AND HANDSOME GLEAMING LIKE THE CROWN OF A KING CLARA Where would that be? Where is that? |ARET IN THE TOWER A WARNING BELL WOULD RING? CLARA WHAT KIND OF WARNING MARGARET FOR A FIRE OR RIVER OVERFLOWING CLARA OH! MARGARET FIRENZE ON A CENTRAL SQUARE THE BEGINNING OF A KINGDOM REPUBLIC CLARA WAS THERE A KING WAS THERE A QUEEN?

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