Séance on a Wet Afternoon is the first opera by noted Broadway and film composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell, Enchanted, etc.). Based on the novel by Mark McShane and the award-winning screen adaptation by Bryan Forbes, Séance is a psychological thriller about a medium, Myra Foster, who conspires with her husband to gain fame and fortune by kidnapping a girl and then “finding” her through her séances.