
Marie Christine
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Michael John LaChiusa’s 'Marie Christine' arrived at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1999 under the banner of Lincoln Center Theater, running for an accomplished 42 performances and capturing five major Tony Award nominations including Best Score. Masterfully transposing Euripides’ classic ancient Greek tragedy *Medea* into a lush, racially charged historical landscape in 1890s New Orleans and Chicago, the sweeping, through-sung operatic masterpiece tracks a fiercely prideful, multi-racial Creole woman who unleashes a catastrophic cycle of voodoo deceptions and vengeance when her white lover abandons her. Directed by David Leveaux, it starred Audra McDonald.

