Broadway’s Michael John LaChiusa talks yak coats, onstage electrocutions & the collaborator that changed his life
West Side Story featuring Jerome Robbins’ original choreography, inspiring her move to New York City to study jazz and modern dance.
Twenty-six Broadway shows (and a Tony Award for lifetime achievement) later, the performer, choreographer, and director still had one more story to tell: her own.
Daniele and LaChiusa were first introduced as potential collaborators on Hello, Again, a musical adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde.
The pair hit it off, and the musical came to life. (A 2017 film version co-starred Cheyenne Jackson, T.R. Knight, and Audra McDonald.)Over the decades, Lincoln Center Theater has become their artistic home, presenting boundary-pushing productions of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Marie Christine, and Bernarda Alba.
