Maddie.
Maddie is a stage musical based on the novel Marion's Wall by Jack Finney.
Cast[]
- Summer Rognlie - Maddie/Jan Cheyney
- Graham Bickley - Nick Cheyney
- Lynda Baron - Cordelia Van Ark
- Kevin Colson - Al Turner
- Jon Rumney -
- Russell Wilcox - Hugo Dahl
Plot[]
The musical tells the story of Nick and Jan Cheyney who have recently moved into a dilapidated attic apartment in downtown San Francisco. Beneath the peeling wallpaper, they are amazed to uncover a message scrawled in lipstick by 1920s dancer Madeline Marsh.
Fascinated by the discovery, they are unprepared for the return of its ghostly author still desperate to become a movie star. Possessing the body of Jan, Maddie once again sets out to have the career she was denied. Along the way she causes mayhem by seducing Nick, humiliating the formidable Cordelia Van Arc at a fundraiser and utterly ruining Jan’s life. It is only when she comes face to face with her old love and former accompanist, Al Turner now an old man, that she begins to question what she’s doing. Al persuades her to leave and Maddie agrees. But then she sees a film in colour with sound...
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "Don't Look Back" - Nick and Jan
- "Maddie Dancing" - Al
- "Ghost" - Nick
- "I'll Find Time for You" - Maddie
- "Easy" - Jan and Nick
- "Time of My Life" - Maddie and Al
- "Don't Look Back" (reprise) - Jan and Nick
- "Star" - Maddie
- Act II
- "One More Day" - Maddie and Al
- "I've Always Known" - Jay
- "From Now On" - Jay
- "Afraid" - Nick
- "Star" (Reprise) - Cordelia
- "At the Gates" - Cordelia, Jan, Nick, Al, Jon Rumney and Hugo
- "If Not for Me" - Cordelia
- "Finale" - Maddie, Al and Nick