Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative/production team for BoHo Theatre‘s production of the musical drama Marie Christine, by writer-composer Michael John LaChiusa. In previews October 21-27, the show opens October 28 and runs through December 10 at Theatre Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, in Chicago’s Belmont Theatre District.

The cast includes Columbia alums Teressa LaGamba ’13, a graduate of the Columbia College Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting with a Minor in American Sign Language Studies from the college’s American Sign Language Department, and Shantel Cribbs ‘17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance. LaGamba’s recent credits include the Chicago premiere of another LaChiusa musical, Little Fish, also at Theatre Wit.

Theatre Department faculty member Heather Gilbert is the show’s lighting designer. The stage manager is Columbia College alum J.C. Widman ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Technical Theatre. The assistant stage manager is Columbia alum Jordan Pokorney ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Theatre Directing.

Set in the twilight years of the 19th century, and loosely based on the life of real-life voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau, this dark musical update of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea chronicles the journey of Marie Christine, a racially mixed woman imprisoned without a trial to face death. From her jail cell, she recounts her journey from a genteel life of privilege in New Orleans Creole society through love, betrayal, and incomprehensible vengeance, to her final tragic fate.

Michael John LaChiusa’s other musicals include The Wild Party, Bernarda Alba, and Hello Again, which has just come to the screen in a feature film version starring Audra McDonald.

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