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Article Excerpt
A mother's desire for her daughter's happiness forces her to make an ambiguous moral decision in the entertaining but ultimately disturbing new musical "The Light in the Piazza" at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
At a time when so many Broadway musicals are forgettable as soon as one leaves the theater, "The Light in the Piazza" is an exception. Based on Elizabeth Spencer's novella, published in The New Yorker in 1960, the musical tells the story of Margaret Johnson (Victoria Clark), a conventional Southern lady, and her 26-year-old daughter, Clara (Kelli O'Hara), during their visit to Florence in the summer of 1953. Mentally, Clara is still the child she was at 10 when she was hit in the head by a pony at her birthday party, making her the archetypal eternal child and in many ways the perfect companion for her middle-aged mother. As Mrs. Johnson explains in the...
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