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The Light in the Piazza opens at Fabulous Fox

ST. LOUIS, MO / January, 2007 – Direct from Broadway, the romantic new musical THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA will take the Fox Theatre stage for a limited two-week engagement January 30 - February 11, 2007 as part of the U.S. Bank Broadway Series.  Curtain times are Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 & 8 p.m.; Sunday, February 4 at 2 & 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, February 11 at 2 p.m.  There is also a weekday matinee on Thursday, February 8 at 1 p.m. 

Leading the cast will be Christine Andreas as Margaret Johnson, a protective Southern matron, Elena Shaddow as her daughter Clara, a beautiful 26-year-old American traveling abroad, and David Burnham as Fabrizio Naccarelli, a 20-year old Italian suitor who barely speaks English and is the source of the romantic tension central to the story.

The new musical opened on Broadway April 2005 and instantly became a favorite of critics and audiences alike, extending its run until July 2006 at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theater.  With book by Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel and direction by Bartlett Sher, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA is the winner of six 2005 Tony®Awards, five Drama Desk Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards for its acclaimed New York run, and was recently seen nationwide on PBS’s “Live From Lincoln Center.”

The musical, based on the novella by Elizabeth Spencer, is set in the summer of 1953 and tells the story of a mother and daughter traveling through Italy, the daughter’s romance with a handsome, high-spirited Florentine, and the mother’s determined efforts to keep the two apart.  The beautiful songs echo the romantic feelings of love and have been the key to winning the hearts of audiences. Composer Guettel has been praised for capturing “that transcendent, irrational state familiar to anyone who has fallen head over heels in love” (The New York Times) in his score for THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.