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Marie Christine (Soundtrack, Cast recording, Lyrics included with album)

Artist: Marie Christine

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    Before the Morning – Jennifer Warren, Mary Bond Davis, Andrea Frierson, Audra McDonald 03:15
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    Manzell's Marie – Vivian Reed, Audra McDonald, Darius de Haas 01:42
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    Your Grandfather Is the Sun – Audra McDonald, Vivian Ree 01:44
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    Beautiful – Audra McDonald 01:44
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    In an Instant – Audra McDonald, Anthony Crivello 01:07
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    Way Back to Paradise – Kimberly Jajuan, Audra McDonald 02:32
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    When You Look at a Man – Audra McDonald, Anthony Crivello 00:25
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    The Storm – Audra McDonald, Anthony Crivello 02:44
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    C'Est l'Amour/To Find a Lover – Audra McDonald, Lynn Joy Matthews, Janet Metz 04:17
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    Nothing Beats Chicago/Ocean Is Different – Audra McDonald, Anthony Crivello 02:47
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    Danced With a Girl – Anthony Crivello, Audra McDonald 03:30
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    Tout Mi Mi/He Is My Release – Kimberly Jajuan, Audra McDonald 00:41
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    Miracles and Mysteries – Vivian Reed 02:40
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    I Don't Hear the Ocean – Audra McDonald, Anthony Crivello 02:52
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    Bird Inside the House – Jim Weaver, Andre Garner, M. Rosena Hill 01:22
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    We're Gonna Go to Chicago – Audra McDonald, Anthony Crivello 02:53
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    And You Would Lie/I Will Give – Audra McDonald, Mary Bond Davis, Andrea Frierson, Jennifer Warren 03:00
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    Act I Finale – Lynn Joy Matthews, Darius de Haas, Andre Garner, Jim Weaver, Audra McDonald 04:02
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    Cincinnati – Kim Huber, Janet Metz, Mary Testa 03:32
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    You're Looking at the Man – Mark Lotito, Anthony Crivello, Peter Samuel, Janet Metz, Michael McCormick, Mary Testa 02:44
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    The Scorpion – Anthony Crivello, Audra McDonald 02:19
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    Lover, Bring Me Summer – Janet Meta, Kim Huber 01:38
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    Tell Me – Anthony Crivello, Audra McDonald 02:53
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    Billy Was Sweet/Paradise Is Burning Down – Audra McDonald, Mary Testa 03:12
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    Prison in a Prison – Audra McDonald 02:22
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    Better and Best – Audra McDonald, Mark Lotito 01:07
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    Good Looking Woman – Audra McDonald, Michael McCormick 02:44
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    No Turning Back/Before the Morning (Reprise) – Darius de Haas, Vivian Reed, Kimberly Jajuan 03:41
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    Beautiful (Reprise) – Audra McDonald 02:03
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    I Will Love You – Audra McDonald 02:36
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    Your Name – Anthony Crivello 02:29
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    Finale-Innocence Dies – Mary Testa, Vivian Reed 02:02

The Greek myth of -Medea has attracted dramatists throughout recorded history. The tragic story of the princess and sorceress who helped Jason steal the Golden Fleece, but responded to his infidelity by killing his lover and her own children, it most famously provided the source for Euripides' play in 431 B.C., but also was adapted by French playwright Pierre Corneille in 1635 (this version in turn made into an opera by Luigi Cherubini in 1797), Robinson Jeffers in 1947, and Jean Anouilh in 1953. In seeking to provide a vehicle for Broadway star Audra McDonald, composer Michael John LaChuisa returned to -Medea and transferred the story to late 19th century New Orleans, turning Medea into Marie Christine L'Adrese, a cultured Creole who falls in love with a sea captain and follows him to his home in Chicago with the usual tragic results. Among the more prominent young Broadway composers of the 1990s, LaChuisa seems to be interested in creating a post-Sondheim musical theater that is a hybrid form somewhere between traditional musical comedy and opera. While musical, his shows rarely employ traditional song structures, though the settings of the lyrics make for more than just recitatives. His choice of subject matter here is hardly typical for a Broadway musical, but he and the show's investors seem to have banked on the notion that three-time Tony Award winner McDonald could be sufficiently compelling to overcome the forbidding plot and uncompromising score. Compelling she certainly was, onstage and on this cast album, but that wasn't enough to make Marie Christine a hit. Announced for a limited run (but with the producers doubtless hoping to extend), the show opened on December 2, 1999, and closed on schedule after five-and-a-half weeks on January 9, 2000. The cast album, released three months later, preserves an intense and striking work that moves inevitably toward its shocking conclusion. It is far from easy listening, but remains powerful, especially because of McDonald's committed performance. But since it makes no obeisance to the traditional pleasures of musical theater, the show doesn't seems likely to live beyond this recording and stands as a significant example of the rift between a generation of serious-minded young Broadway composers (typified by LaChuisa and Jason Robert Brown) who set little store by mere entertainment and a group of pop-oriented songsters (Frank Wildhorn, Elton John) who prize entertainment above all and who, thus far, have been winning the war for Broadway's future, at least as far as commercial success goes. William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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  • Online Item #: 13848555
  • Store Item Number (DPCI): 244-22-6301
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