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
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1999 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Original. December 2, 1999 · Graciela Daniele | 42 performances · 1 Tony wins |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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26 passages naming Marie Christine, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
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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