Wild Party Lippa

[Quasi]

Posted: 7/2/05 at 5:34pm

So I have seen the show here in Germany. I just want to know, if the original version Off-Broadway was also set in the 80's? I find it a bit confusing, having this music in a 20's style and a setting in the 80's. In my opinion it would fit better in the jazz age.
Updated On: 7/2/05 at 05:34 PM

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/2/05 at 5:36pm

20's and 80's

I think it was set in the roaring 20's.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 7/2/05 at 5:47pm

I agree, it is set in the 20s. Same as the original poem. How do you get to the 80s by the way?

[zoran912]

Posted: 7/2/05 at 6:59pm

That must have been one odd concept production. I can see it working though. This past year, my high school did a concept production of "Romeo and Juliet" set in a 1960's jazz club. It was stunning.

[eslgr8]

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:34pm

The play is set in the 1920s. Maybe the German director found parallels between the 20s and the 80s.

[Quasi]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 2:21am

It was the second production of this show in Germany and both versions were set in the 80's. I didn't like it, in fact there is no reason for doing this change. Well I think the terrible costumes they could use are one reason.

[Blair]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:00am

That actually sounds like an interesting concept. I could definitely see it working. Too bad that production fell flat.

Haha, zoran, a high school in my area did a production of Romeo & Juliet that was set in Mexico. Except it sucked like you wouldn't believe.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:05am

That's so funny that BOTH productions were set in the 80's...I can assure you when it played in the States it took place in the 20s.

But hey, Germany in the 80's was a crazy time...

[queenie2]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:15pm

which productions did you see in germany. I saw the version in amstetten in austria and that was set in the 20's

[uncamark]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:39pm

It just happens that the Lippa "Wild Party"'s being done in Chicago by a new company called Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, in a shoebox 60-seat space starting in the next couple of weeks. Their web site is www.bohotheatre.com.