Marie Christine

Pros: Audra McDonald, Fluid staging
Cons: Audra McDonald, Unlisten-able score

MARIE CHRISTINE should have been great. It has all the right ingredients -a talented star, an inventive director and a up and coming composer. But alas, I can't report that it is great or enjoyable theater.

The show is riveting theater in...

Pros: An amazing Broadway Experience
Cons: Limited Run

Marie Christine is the last muscial of the twentieth century. If it's a precursor of what is to come in the twenty-first, I would like two tickets to every thing available, please.

Before I write this, let me state that I saw the fourth...

Pros: Amazing Audra and Cast, Wonderful Music and Interesting staging
Cons: Slightly dissatisfying ending

Marie Christine; Ambitious, to be sure. To take the Medea tale and to transpose it anywhere near modern times is a massive undertaking. Medea's time was cruel and barbaric - sure, killing your children was beyond the believable then too. But in the world...

Pros: Audra, stage craft, fluid
Cons: Dark, no "hummable tunes"

Sometimes inaccessible, sometimes heady, always interesting. New theatre such as this comes along rarely, so take heed. If the story line of Medea interets you, if you are a fan of Ms. McDonald, if Copeland-esque music stirs you, then I suggest you get...