Help Bring Lippa's Wild Party to Broadway

Remember how social media brought "Be More Chill" to Broadway? Well, I'm making my own mission. I'm starting a campaign to make Roundabout Theatre Company produce a new production of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party on Broadway next season. I even requested that the theater company should hire a female director and a female choreographer to add much needed diversity to the creative team.

If you have a Twitter account, please click and retweet this tweet: https://twitter.com/glenn_biz/status/1037401052058927104

Plus, I began a petition with a goal of 975 signatures to reach my goal. I signed my name already on it. Click on this link to sign: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/andrew-lippas-wild-party-to-broadway.

You can also click the link on the top of my homepage of my blog (glennbiz.blogspot.com) to sign the petition.

Wanna help bring another show to Broadway like BMC, this is your chance. Retweet or sign, or do both. Any comments?

Updated On: 9/8/18 at 11:57 PM

BMC garnered a dedicated fanbase that was cultivated on social media. It's not like they just got the show to Broadway by petitioning.

nybkg609 said: "BroadwayRox3588 said: "Apples and oranges."

What was that supposed to mean?"



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_and_oranges

dramamama611 said: "975 signatures wouldn't even begin to convince anyone to produce any play on bway".

BMC had a petition to revise the show with the original cast. Take a look: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/be-more-chill-original-cast-revival

By the way, I changed the number from 975 to 600 signatures. I'm not giving up on my campaign. Please click and sign: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/andrew-lippas-wild-party-to-broadway

Also, please retweet these tweets if you have twitter accounts:

-https://twitter.com/glenn_biz/status/1037401052058927104

-https://twitter.com/glenn_biz/status/1038626708230942721

Updated On: 9/9/18 at 06:28 AM

dramamama611 said: "Do you have any proof that the petition has ANYTHING to do with the current run? No. They had an online presence, people talking about the show, creating fan art, buying the recording like CRAZY. It didnt come from a petition that wouldn't fill a Broadway house for more than a day.

Goodluck and all".


Thanks! I need lots of support on this one. Please think about it and sign and/or retweet, okay?

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "Everyone has the potential to imagine a worthwhile dream.

Most have the ability to achieve it.

This, my friend, has neither going for it. Save your breath."

Come on. Think about it. People need to pay attention to this. Roundabout should listen to their subscribers more often if they're making plans for what they want for next season.

600 signatures? That's not even sold-out for one performance. Secure 500,000 "signatures," and maybe someone will listen to you.

Best way to get a theatre company to listen is money. Becoming a high-level donor ($100K or more annually) could maybe secure a meeting with the Exec. Director. Then, you could offer to do a co-production with them, in which you contribute/raise $5million+ towards the production.

(Also, for what it's worth, I don't remember the City Center production selling out 3 years ago, and that had a pretty starry cast -- Sutton Foster, Steven Pasquale, Miriam Shor, Brandon Victor Dixon.)

I admire the drive and tenacity shown by OP here. Everyone needs a hobby.

I think something that would hold more water would be drumming up interest for a one-night-only concert staging featuring the original Off-Broadway cast (Idina/Taye/Julia/Brian/Alix). Andrew Lippa, Julia, and Idina have all, at some point in the last 5 years, said they'd be down for such a thing (source: they told me). That type of event could easily sell out and turn a profit for the producer - though such a thing is much better suited to be a big gala fundraiser.

Start soliciting Barry Grove; get MTC to do it next year for the 20th anniversary of their production. (Hell, maybe I'll put that bug in MTC's ear myself.)

Are people here, I don't know, insane? I saw both Wild Party tries - neither was good, although Lippa was certainly better than LaChiusa. Is this for attention? That seems to be what's at play here since no one in their right mind would go anywhere near either version in terms of Broadway. Perhaps the OP is a teen? Perhaps the OP knows Lippa? Perhaps the world has gone mad?

So, why Wild Party of all musicals and Roundabout?

This will never happen there with the cast you suggested...NEVER!

Keep Dreaming and that's a good thing.