PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

The Light in the Piazza

Book by Craig Lucas
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the Utah premiere of the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza, December 5 through December 20, 2008.

Originally developed with the assistance of the Sundance Institute Theatre Laboratory, The Light in the Piazzapremiered at Lincoln Center and was nominated for eleven Tony Awards in 2005. It was the winner of six of those awards, including Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations. Craig Lucas (author of such other works as Prelude to a Kiss and the film The Dying Gaul) wrote the book for the musical. Adam Guettel, the grandson of Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame), wrote the music and lyrics. Critics have praised the show all over the country; The Chicago Tribune describes it as having “…the most beautiful score written for the American theatre in at least 20 years [with] uncommonly wise and emotional lyrics.” The Wall Street Journal calls Guettel “…the most gifted and promising theatre composer of his generation.” New York Magazine calls the show “breathtaking, original and daring,” and the New York Observer praises The Light in the Piazza as “a work of such consummate beauty, truth, energy and accomplishment that you leave the theater filled with joy and revived by hope for the future.”

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