Marie Christine | |
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Music | Michael John LaChiusa |
Lyrics | Michael John LaChiusa |
Book | Michael John LaChiusa |
Basis | Medea by Euripides |
Productions | 1999 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.