LaChiusa Wild Party — Page 2

oh see Marie Christine was my introduction to Michael John and in my opinion is one of the best scores of the last ten years. I did not see the show so I don't have a clue as to how it was onstage but the CD is so thrilling and engaging. Audra is beyond belief in it. I wasn't introduced to the Wild Party until a year later and then fell in love with it and Toni. They are both very different but both stunning. haha I remember as a little twelve year old (it was sixth grade when I got Marie Christine for x-mas) and I had to give a speech in our little Developmental Guidance class about how we deal with Anger and I wrote that I went home and listened to Marie Christine and I played some of it to the class....haha oh theater dork from the begining. Anyways I think they are both wonderful and it was a tough year and hard to compare.

edit- ^ oh me too Bwaysinger I am so grateful for places like the Public and Lincoln Center!

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Updated On: 7/31/06 at 04:13 PM

why? just wondering?

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really? aww that blows. I never saw it so i wouldn't know. That's too bad. Do you think it's because they wanted to keep it to one disc?

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Jesus, Gust, you're too young for me! I was seeing TWP after finishing graduate school.
Excuse me while I soak my dentures.

I hate incomplete recordings as much as the next guy, Bso, but thank god they got recorded at all!

Yeah, they removed the f-bombs.

And a few verses here and there.

bwaysinger - this is also a good point.

haha yeah bwaysinger...and being the young'n that I am I haven't been able to afford the means to get to NYC to see any of these peices. It's interesting though because I actually got introduced to MJL's work before Sondheim (I had seen Into the Woods when I was little but I hadn't gotten to the point of grouping shows with a composer) and for a while all I listened to was Marie Christine. I would always put it in the car and my Mom just gave me some of the weirdest looks as I just sat there crying and sometimes singing along lol. I did get her hooked on both Marie Christine and The Wild Party although she tends to go for lighter musical theater fare.

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Alright, I think I would probably accept that more judging from Madeleine's behavior, but in the story it was just peculiar, especially that many of the characters had their little chance to shine and she really went undiscussed for the mostpart.

I found a bootleg of the little speech Dolores has before When It Ends and it was so good! So sad I never saw it

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That's such a shame that the entire scores weren't recorded. I had no idea.

And I would like to thank God for younger theatre fans like Gustof. We need more of you.

The poem doesn't have much on the two Jews either...and there are different characters in both Lippa's and LaChiusa's...the biggest being Jackie. LaChiusa kept him as the ambisextruous love loving man...Lippa made him mute.

March's poem is interesting in that he describes various characters and then stated that the rest of the people at the party were just replicas of the aforementioned. A good idea LaChiusa kept - instead of trying to make extra characters.

I think that there's a little of everyone in LaChiusa's characters...from the racially oppressed in Eddie to the fading star in Dolores.

LaChiusa's CDs often cut music, which is frusterating!

Marie Christine has some GREAT songs that aren't on the CD, like another hilarious song for Testa, and a really creepy voodoo number.

Side note:
If you notice, there are definite strains of MC in BA.

When Bernarda sings in Limbrada's Daughter, "Erase her name! Erase her shame..." etc, it almost identical to Marie's mother's "Will you loose yourself? Like I lost my myself... Marie.."

There are other examples, but I can't remember, cause I'm exhausted. Don't know how I feel about that.

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"Well it's Michael John! How could you not just oogle over his music?"

Amen to that! I find that he is the most talented current composer. His works challenge, inspire, and provoke the mind. I think his work is genius.

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I was just thinking - in GOLD AND GOLDBERG they mention Albee? Would that be Edward Albee - who wasn't born until after the show takes place (or around the same time)...or is there another Albee?