Jackie Chianca

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“I am happiness with you,” sings the lovestruck Fabrizio, played to perfection by Joshua Grosso, early on in “The Light in the Piazza.” Later, though, his frustrated sister-in-law Franca — a riveting Rebekah Rae Robles — sings of how “happiness can also scar.” It’s a dichotomy that makes up the center of the exquisite new production at the Huntington Theatre.