ldquo;The Light in the Piazza beautifully captures the eternal allure of Italy. . . . The story wraps itself around your heart.rdquo;mdash;Chicago Sun-Timesldquo;Guettelrsquo;s music and lyrics take nothing from the razzle-dazzle bargain basement of feeling; they represent; instead; a genuine expense of spirit. . . . The Light in the Piazza doesnrsquo;t want to make theatre-goers feel good; it wants to make them feel deeply.rdquo;mdash;The New Yorkerldquo;With Adam Guettelrsquo;s gorgeous melodies; a compelling narrative hook from Craig Lucas; and moving themes about happiness and risk; therersquo;s no question that The Light in the Piazza is Broadway worthy.rdquo;mdash;Daily VarietyComposer Adam Guettel; best known for his Floyd Collins; has teamed with Prelude to a Kiss playwright Craig Lucas to create a passionate and soaring new musical based on Elizabeth Spencerrsquo;s 1960 novella; which was first published as an entire issue of The New Yorker. It is the story of an American ingeacute;nue abroad; whose chance meeting of a charming young Italian in a Florentine piazza sets off a whirlwind romancemdash;with an unsettling revelation. The Light in the Piazza opens on Broadway at the Lincoln Center Theater this spring after major productions already in Seattle and Chicago.Adam Guettel wrote music and lyrics for Floyd Collins; produced across the country and in London. His other works include Loversquo;s Fire; a collaboration with John Guare; and Saturn Returns; a concert at The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival that was recorded by Nonesuch Records under the title Myths and Hymns.Craig Lucas won this yearrsquo;s Obie Award for Best American Play for Small Tragedy and the New York Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay for The Secret Lives of Dentists. His other plays include Reckless; Blue Window; Prelude to a Kiss; Godrsquo;s Heart; The Dying Gaul; Missing Persons; Stranger; and Singing Forest.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Bergers Insights on Russia via NeizvestnyBy J. G. H.This extended essay brings to light the otherwise obscure artist Ernst Neizvestny. Bergers gaze intensifies on the particular circumstances of Neizvestny to draw out broader tendencies also being traced in the book; such as Russian iconic art; Soviet revolutionary art and politics; and aspirations of art more generally:"[Neizvestny] is concerned with neither viscera no complexes. He is concerned with creating an image of man that celebrates his total nature."Bergers prose flashes with insight into both Russian art and Neizvestnys sculpture. He lays out his critique sensibly and presents the subject with enough balance between the social; biographical; and critical that the reader is consistently drawn forward along each of those perspectives. The prints - like Bergers words - are also well-chosen and provide a solid visual basis for the discussion at hand.Concerning the rant that closes the book: it is an anachronism largely because of its hopes for the Soviet Union. However; our discomfort at reading it may also betray our own cynicism about the truth that we face an "intolerable condition of inequality in the world".4 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Criticism or Political Tract?By Stephen QuinnWell; the books fairly interesting when it talks about the history of Russian Academic art; and also when it explores the work of Neizvestny. But the third section degenerates into a Marxist scrred against "imperialism". The book was written in the late 60s; so I suppose I can understand the authors optimism (naivite?) about the prospects of Communism; but all the same; I finished the book feeling that Neizvestny had been used by the author to further his own viewpoint. The description of the book; read in retrospect; is more interesting than the contents.
