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The Light in the Piazza book by CRAIG LUCAS music and lyrics by _ ADAM GUETTEL directed by BARTLETT SHER Lincoln Center Theater Apeil 15, 2005 219105) 1 ACT ONE a (OVERTURE) Li. Piazza Signoria (Florence, 1953, summer. Margaret Johnson— an elegant, self: possessed, practical and attractive woman in middle age — views her daughter Clara — 26, looks and acts younger, carrying a sketchpad — across the piazza.) CLARA Mother? What happened here? MARGARET (to the audience) What did happen here? I played a tricky game ina foreign country? ... What did I do? CLARA Mother? vw? MARGARET What happened? Wellll, let’s see ... (She consults her Baedeker) (2/1205) 2 (STATUES AND STORIES) MARGARET ON A CENTRAL SQUARE IN A CITY OF THE SUN ROSE A PALACE IT WAS HIGH AND HANDSOME GLEAMING LIKE THE CROWN OF A KING CLARA Where would that be? Where is that? |ARET IN THE TOWER A WARNING BELL WOULD RING? CLARA WHAT KIND OF WARNING MARGARET FOR A FIRE OR RIVER OVERFLOWING CLARA OH! MARGARET FIRENZE ON A CENTRAL SQUARE THE BEGINNING OF A KINGDOM REPUBLIC CLARA WAS THERE A KING WAS THERE A QUEEN?

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