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Madame X: The Musical
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 26, 2011
Closed Oct 9, 2011
Running Time:
1hr. 55min.
(includes 1 intermission)

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FESTIVAL INFORMATION:

This show is part of the NYMF 2011 Festival.


WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

It's Madame X with a huge capital "M!" for Melodrama! Music! and Murder! in this over the top hysterical take on Douglas Sirk films and the ever-durable genre of the altruistic, self sacrificing mother. It's a new twist on John Singer Sargent's classic portrait, Madame X, as she haunts an over-sexed housewife who won't take responsibility for her own hedonism...until it's too late!

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



47th Street Theatre
304 W 47th St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

[Ed. Note: This is the third in a series of TM review roundups of shows in the eighth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival.]

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One of many shrewd decisions marking the gratifyingly successful adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, at Signature Theatre Company's Peter Norton Space, is the inclusion of Austen herself as a main character, played with verve by Donna Lynne Champlin.



Co-composers-lyricists-librettists-arrangers-adapters Lindsay Warren Baker and Amanda Jacobs perused the Austen biographical facts, noted the book had been rejected by the first publishers to whom it was sent, and that only 10 years or so later did the author return to it, unsure of [...]


Reviewed by David Finkle, Dan Bacalzo on Oct 3, 2011

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