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Which Wild Party?

Sondheimman132

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#0 Which Wild Party?

Posted: 12/20/04 at 5:38pm

Lippa or Lacusia? I say Lippa.

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spiderdj82

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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/04

#1 re: Which Wild Party?

Posted: 12/20/04 at 5:39pm

Both are good, but I like Lippa's better.

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Borstalboy

Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04

#2 re: Which Wild Party?

Posted: 12/20/04 at 5:40pm

Oh, for the umpteenth time: LA CHIUSA, LA CHIUSA, LA CHIUSA!!!!!!

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bronxboundexpress

Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04

#3 re: Which Wild Party?

Posted: 12/20/04 at 5:41pm

I think LaChuisa's is a piece of crap.

zoran912

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#4 re: Which Wild Party?

Posted: 12/20/04 at 5:43pm

I personally go for Lippa's. The cast is phenomenal.

Mister Matt

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#5 re: Which Wild Party?

Posted: 12/20/04 at 5:50pm

La Chiusa, without a doubt. Lippa has tome nice tunes, but the music is more standard musical comedy that could easily be used in other shows. La Chiusa's score more effectively captures the mood of the text and period of the piece. It's much darker and complex mixing jazz, vaudeville and contemporary musical theatre to tell a much richer story and it more clearly defines the characters and the era. It really is one of my favorite scores of the past decade. The entire cast is exceptional with no weak links.

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magic8ball

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#6 re: Which Wild Party?

Posted: 12/20/04 at 6:25pm

Both of the incarnations of the show are pretty damn good. La Chiusa does a magnificant job of capturing the period and the mood of the story, and, as a previous poster mentioned, his score is more complex than Lippa's. Lippa's version, however, boasts a stellar cast. (Not that La Chiusa's cast isn't exceptional... but come ON. Brian d'Arcy James alone makes the Lippa cast recording worthwhile- let alone Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, and Julia Murney thrown into the mix.) Also, the music is more in tune with contemporary Broadway. Lippa doesn't attempt to adapt his score to suit the atmosphere of the piece, as La Chiusa does.

Really, I think that both methods work. If you can afford both, get both. They are worth getting together if only for the fact that it is extremely interesting to compare two great composers' wildly different takes on the same subject matter.

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#7 re: Which Wild Party?

Posted: 12/20/04 at 6:30pm

Toughy. I really like both of them. Especially Marc Kudisch in La Chiusa. I recently just got Lippa's and it is very well, but I adored La Chiusa's first, so I guess its a tie?