Marie Christine, 1999

The run closed January 9, 2000

Opened

December 2, 1999

Closed

January 9, 2000

Performances

42

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Vivian Beaumont Theater

Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and carry a performance count, this is the 250th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it30 named

Franz C Alderfer
Ana Maria Andricain
Michael Babin
Brent Black
Shawn Elliott
Andrea Frierson Toney
Andre Garner
Lovette George
Keith Lee Grant
Rosena M Hill
Kim Huber
Kimberly Jajuan
Joy Lynn Matthews
Janet Metz
Monique Midgette
David Pleasant
Powers Pleasant
Peter Samuel
Zachary Thornton
Joshua Walter
Jennifer Leigh Warren
Jim Weaver

8 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Graciela Daniele

Choreographer

Graciela Daniele

Orchestrations

Jonathan Tunick 10

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awardscategories not held

1 win from 5 nominations. We don't know which categories.

Recordings 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Marie Christine, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Audra McDonald won her third Tony Award for this role, making her the youngest three-time winner in history at age 29. Michael John LaChiusa's ambitious operatic score divided critics but was praised by many as a major artistic achievement.

• Miss Saigon, Thou Shalt Not, Marie Christine, Jane Eyre, Parade, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Civil War. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 99
• 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). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 45
• 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). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 297
• In a radically different vein, she created the role of Magdalena in Marie Christine. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 385
• Marie Christine ( 1999) tells a new and yet no less bleak version of the story of Medea. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 595

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 1 recordings of Marie Christine document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.