Maddy Corson, philanthropist who helped fund new Children's Museum and Theatre, passes away
Chris Costa | NEWS CENTER Maine
PORTLAND, Maine — Madeleine Corson, a former media executive and board member for the Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine, died Monday after battling cancer.
Corson was the former Chair of the Board of Guy Gannett Communications and a long-term member of the Museum & Theatre Board of Directors. She gave a "foundational" gift to help build the new location at Thompson's Point.
The state-of-the-art theatre there is named "Maddy's Theatre" after Madeleine Corson’s birth mother, Alice Madeline Gannett Gatchell, with whom she shares her name. She passed away just 11 days into new motherhood.
Corson fought for decades to keep the Children's Theatre of Maine up and running, culminating in the successful merger of that organization with the Children’s Museum of Maine in 2008.