As previously announced, Mark Harelik and Patti Cohenour have joined the cast, which also includes Sarah Uriarte Berry in the role of Franca, Kelli O'Hara in the part of Clara and Victoria Clark as Clara's mother.
Piazza will play Lincoln Center Theatre's Vivian Beaumont beginning March 17, 2005, for an April 18 opening.
The creative team includes Ted Sperling (musical direction), Michael Yeargan (sets), Catherine Zuber (costumes) and Christopher Akerlind (lights).
Piazza, based on Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella, has played critically acclaimed runs at both Seattle's Intiman Theatre and, more recently, at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
The Light in the Piazza is a love story of a young American woman, Clara (O'Hara), who while on holiday falls for a young Italian man. When the young woman's mother (Clark) learns of the affair, she opposes it for seemingly unknown reasons. The musical is set in Florence and Rome in the summer of 1953.
