Marie Christine

Marie Christine
Original cast recording
MusicMichael John LaChiusa
LyricsMichael John LaChiusa
BookMichael John LaChiusa
BasisMedea
by Euripides
Productions1999 Broadway

Marie Christine is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Michael John LaChiusa. It opened on Broadway in 1999. While loosely based on the Greek play Medea, it is set in the 1890s, in New Orleans and Chicago, and draws heavily on the biographies of (and the mythology about) a historical mother and daughter, both named Marie Laveau, who were famous practitioners of voodoo.