| re: 10-yr Light in the Piazza Anniversary Concert | |
| Posted by: WWriter 08:01 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
| In reply to: 10-yr Light in the Piazza Anniversary Concert - Fredrick 09:28 am EST 02/07/21 | |
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| I don't think there's any recording available, audio or video, sadly. I did get to see it, just barely, and I've linked to the blog post I wrote at the time. It was just barely because I only heard about the reunion four or five hours after tickets went on sale. I immediately went to the ticket website and called my sister at the same time to make sure she was free the day of the performance (she had seen Piazza 18 times or so). Then I had her call one of our main theatre buddies, and as I bought tix for my sister and I, I called the other. I didn't want to wait to get okays from everyone, because I was afraid of the tickets disappearing. My sister and I got third row balcony, off center. Once we had verified our friends' availability (there was never a question of whether they'd want to see it!), we got tickets for them--also third row, I think, and to the other side. And then there were no more tickets available! Gone! We had just made it! I should specify that we got the last $150 tix. I don't know if there were still $1,000 tix available. And, speaking of the $1,000 tix, I wrote in my blog post that I didn't know if the audience downstairs was as buzzing as the one upstairs. Years later, I met someone who had seen it in orchestra seats and she said the orchestra was full of Piazza fans who were also thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to be there. The performance itself was painfully wonderful. There's always that wistfulness at seeing something for the last time, and I had felt that wistfulness at Piazza's final performance. But there's an extra intensity, at least for me, in seeing something you thought you would never see again. (I also cry more at movies where a dead person comes back and then leaves than I do at regular deaths. There's something about that miracle appearance that deepens things for me. Like you almost could get away without the loss happening, and then it hurts twice as much. See, eg, Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Truly, Madly, Deeply.) Each second of the Piazza reunion was there, perfect, then gone. There, perfect, then gone. There, perfect, then gone. And when the music for Fable started, I think the whole audience's heart broke, because we knew the show would soon disappear again. Sigh. |
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