Also credited on3 works
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Marie Christine
The Wild Party
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- In his 2000 Marie Christine, Michael John LaChiusa's quasi-operatic version of Medea set in Creole New Orleans, the plot of the original is mimicked an outraged mother murders her children and feeds them to their father but it doesn't have the force of the original. This Medea is not a mythological evocation ofWoman in all Man's fear of h…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Michael John LaChiusa's Marie Christine, a reworking of the myth of Medea, also has a grounding in the American vernacular, in this case Creole harmonies and rhythms. But some of LaChiusa's earlier ventures, especially his First Lady Suite, four one-acts about American presidents' wives, sound unnatural in the mouths of average Americans.…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- George C. Wolfe, president of the New York Shakespeare Festival, put The Petrified Prince on the theatre's 1994-1995 schedule. He was anxious to get Michael John LaChiusa back working at the Public, and "the fact that Hal was attached made it more attractive," said Wolfe. Although Garth Drabinsky and John Flaxman helped underwrite the cos…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
- New sources of music, in Jason Robert Brown’s Parade (1998) and Michael John LaChiusa’s Marie Christine (1999), presented unrelievedly serious musical plays, both original yet based on … well, one might say on myth, as Brown’s story of the Jewish northerner Leo Frank, lynched in Georgia in 1913 for a murder he did not commit, could be tho…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
- 33 As recently as August 2005, Michael John LaChiusa declared that ‘The American Musical is dead’ in an article for Opera News . See ‘The Great Gray Way: Is It Prognosis Negative For The Broadway Musical?’ in Opera News , 70/2 (2005), p. 30.ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
- So, Checky, that's final, huh? You prefer Andrew Lippa's Wild Party to Michael John LaChiusa's? Send!ebooks/Portantiere, Gerard Alessandrini;Michael/B0030EGEYY EBOK - Gerard Alessandrini;Michael Portantiere.txt
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