Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas’
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Director: Chay Yew
Choreographer: Parker Esse
Music Director: Rob Berman
Scenic Designers: Miguel Urbino and Clint Ramos
Costume Designer: Linda Cho
Lighting Designer: David Weiner
Sound Designer: Megumi Katayama
Hair and Wig Designer: Charles G. LaPointe
Producer of Musical Theatre at NYCC: Jenny Gersten
Production Stage Manager: Cynthia Cahill
Director of Production: Julie Sheton-Grimshaw
Technical Director: Tim Thistleton
Assistant Scenic Designer: KIMKIM (Juhee Kim)
Properties: Alexander Wylie
Production Photos by: Joan Marcus
New York City Center - Encores!
June 2023.
PRESS
“In Yew’s concert staging, which runs through Sunday, those elements cohere seamlessly. (Though Miles and the ensemble carry leather-bound scripts that resemble guidebooks, the production is fully and beautifully staged.) The 16-member orchestra is the magnificent centerpiece, elevated on a colonnade platform that runs the length of the stage. The set design by Clint Ramos and Miguel Urbino emphasizes depth of field, its white framework a receptive canvas for Linda Cho’s refined midcentury costumes and the warm ambers of David Weiner’s lighting.”
-Naveen Kumar (New York Times)
“Starring a top-of-her-game Ruthie Ann Miles as a cautious American woman visiting 1950s Florence with her lovelorn, developmentally disabled daughter, played by 19-year-old Anna Zavelson in what might prove to be the biggest theatrical discovery of the decade. They are joined on Clint Ramos and Miguel Urbino’s airy set of colonnades, evocatively lit by David Weiner, that stretch into the painful past and onto the hopeful future, dividing and uniting its passionate inhabitants as they navigate the ruins of ancient love.”
-Juan A. Ramirez (Theatrely)
“We also can’t forget to mention the piazza itself: Clint Ramos and Miguel Urbino have propped up the orchestra on columns that recall the Uffizi Gallery’s, and added mobile open archways that could have been lifted straight from Clara’s sketchpad.”
-Melissa Rose Bernardo (NY Stage Review)