The Light In The Pazza Rhetorical Analysis

The 2005 multiple Tony Award winning show, “The Light in the Piazza” brings love, wonder, and happiness just as well as sad. “For the eyes, On a bridge in a pouring rain. Not the eyes, but the part you can't explain. For the arms you could fall into forever.” This Italian Musical has beautiful compositions and lyrics written by Adam Guettel to portray a heartfelt story. In this story, a mother (Margaret) and a daughter (Clara) from Winston, Salem go on a trip to Italy where Clara's mother went on her honeymoon. She shows Clara what her father and her did while in Italy, but while vacationing Clara unintentionally falls in love at first sight with an italian boy, Fabrizio. As their time their goes on, they fall more in love but Margaret trying to pull them apart in fear because of Clara
As the show goes on, Clara sings a song called “The Beauty Is”which is her telling you of what she's experiencing for the first time somewhere new. After she meets fabrizio, and he's fallen in love, he goes on to sing a song in full italian called “Il Mondo Era Vuoto”. This song is all about how Clara fills the “light” in his life that he was always missing. Its truly a beautiful and one of the most passionate songs in the show. The way it is written shows precisie emotions and you can almost understand the message without the text being sung along. Fabrizio asks Clara on a walk in the piazza. There, he serenades her with a fun song “Passeggiata” to show her of the place he knows the best, Italy. As Clara and Fabrizio's love grows, Margaret's and Roys (her husband's) dies. Margaret towards the end of the first act sings a song of falling out of love with her husband and reminiscing on the beautiful times they shared when they were in love by singing “Dividing Day”. This song by far is the most passionate, sad, and most beautiful song I have ever heard throughout the musical theater realm. There are many