Maddie: A New Musical

“MADDIE” concerns the ghost of a long dead flapper, Madeleine (Maddie) Marsh who was tragically killed on the way to do a screen taste for Cecil B DeMille. Maddie was on her way to becoming a huge star. Her ghost is disturbed by a young couple, Nick and Jan Cheyney who move into her old apartment in 1980’s San Francisco and uncover Maddie’s last message scrawled on the wall “Madeleine Marsh, June 1926-read it and weep!” 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...