Ft. Myers, Fla. Paul Goldfinger photo © February, 2020.
By Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net
JUDY KUHN performs “Dividing Day” from the album Rodgers, Rodgers and Guettel. This song is , in my opinion, the best song in this 2005 Broadway show: The Light in the Piazza.
Adam Guettel, the grandson of Richard Rodgers, wrote the lyrics; Craig Lucas, the music. The operatic music won the 2005 Tony for best original score. The music is performed in Italian and English.
Piazza is a deeply felt show set in the 1950’s. An American mom and her beautiful daughter are traveling in Italy, and there a complicated love story develops.
I won’t reveal the details but the play is so touching, sad, and beautiful that I sometimes think of it even today.
It emerged on Broadway in 2005. I saw it with Kelli O’Hara as the daughter. Its most recent revival was in London, 2019.
