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Marie Christine

Shows · Marie Christine

In 1894 New Orleans, the Creole beauty Marie Christine L’Adrese (Audra McDonald) falls in love with the white sea captain Dante Keyes (Anthony Crivello) and sacrifices her standing in society to leave her home and follow him and have his children. But later in Chicago Keyes goes into politics and casts aside Marie for a white wife.

Opened
1999
Performances
42
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Michael John LaChiusaLyrics: Michael John LaChiusaBook: Michael John LaChiusa

Productions1 on Broadway

1999 Vivian Beaumont Theater Original. December 2, 1999 · Graciela Daniele 42 performances · 1 Tony wins

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Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available

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In the literature26 passages

Miss Saigon, Thou Shalt Not, Marie Christine, Jane Eyre, Parade, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Civil War. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p99

More recent book musicals with African American dimensions include Bring In ’Da Noise, Bring In ’Da Funk (1996), Ragtime (1998), Marie Christine (1999), and Caroline, or Change (2004). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p45

Despite the creators’ unwillingness to label the works as such, opera has made a major comeback on Broadway since the 1970s in such sung-through shows as Jesus Christ Superstar (1971), Les Misérables (1987), The Phantom of the Opera (1988), Miss Saigon (1991), Marie Christine (1999), and The Light in the Piazza (2005). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p297

In a radically different vein, she created the role of Magdalena in Marie Christine. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p385

Marie Christine ( 1999) tells a new and yet no less bleak version of the story of Medea. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p595

LaChiusa, provocative, prolific, and largely self-taught, has seen half a dozen of his pieces produced Off Broadway, beginning with First Lady Suite (1993) and Hello Again; and he has had Broadway productions of two impressive works written more in the spirit of music theater, with its operatic bent, than musical theat… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p717

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