MAXA, The Maddest Woman in the World' is an epic rock horror musical capturing the life story of Paula Maxa, the famed French tragedienne who died thousands of deaths for the patrons who haunted the infamously bloody theater known as the Grand Guignol. In 1940's France, it becomes Paula’s strange destiny to carry the very same horrors of the Grand Guignol into her private life. Only then does she confront the very night that changed her existence forever. The story is a heartfelt, shrewd examination of the timeless struggle between trauma and healing, exemplified by bookwriter and lyricist Mika Kauffman’s wordplay of levity and macabre, as well as composer Thomas Jacobsen’s complex, sweeping orchestrations with a contemporary electronic score.

"Strange Power" features Paula Maxa as she romanticizes and reflects on her morbid curiosities born from traumatic events that escalated her rise to fame, paying homage to the "poor witches of the middle ages" who burned at the stake before her.

"This song is about taking the things that have brought you down and dancing on their graves.” - Daniella Caggiano

www.maxamusical.com

Music Director And Audio Engineer: Andrew Black

Center at West Park residency location

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