Two Muses Theatre is presenting The Light in the Piazza as its second show of the season and the last at their current address inside the Barnes & Noble store in West Bloomfield. It’s a stirring production, directed by The Ringwald’s Joe Bailey and offered up as further proof that amazing art and soaring music can come in modest, unassuming packages.

In 2005, The Light in the Piazza took New York by storm at Lincoln Center, winning rave reviews and multiple Tony Awards. Like so many Broadway hits, this is the story of two young people who fall in love but find that myriad barriers conspire to keep them apart. That, however, is where convention ends. The play, which is set in Florence in the 1950s, seems to wind around like that city’s narrow maze of streets, opening unexpectedly onto a square bedecked with fountains, flowers and delightful little surprises. One is never quite sure where this play is leading us, but we are eager to follow along.

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