The Light in the Piazza

★★★★½
Spreckels Theater Company
Weekends through Oct. 25

When 2005’s Light in the Piazza first played on Broadway, there was much talk that the show, a musical adaptation of Elizabeth Spencer’s 1960 novel, marked a return to the gorgeous scores and lyrical drama of the golden age of musical theater. Ignoring decades of rock and pop influences, composer Adam Guettel created a score that was lush, orchestral, complex, operatic and brazenly romantic..

For the full review from the October 14, 2015 North Bay Bohemian, click * HERE *

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