The Light in the Piazza

Adam Guettel, Craig Lucas, Elizabeth Spencer

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Publisher's Synopsis

The book and lyrics of the hit Broadway musical based on Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella.

A young American tourist has a chance meeting with a charming young Italian in a Florentine piazza, setting off a whirlwind romance with an unsettling revelation.

The Light in the Piazza is a musical with a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel.

It was premiered on Broadway in April 2005 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center, winning six Tony Awards including Best Original Score.

'A wondrous fable that is as simple and complicated as its ineffable subject - love' - Frank Rich

About the Publisher

Theatre Communications Group

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN:	9781559362672
Publisher:	Nick Hern Books
Imprint:	Theatre Communications Group
Pub date:	13 Aug 2008
Edition:	1st Edition
DEWEY:	782.140268
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	80
Weight:	152g
Height:	138mm
Width:	216mm
Spine width:	8mm