Wild Party Synopsis

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Wild Party Synopsis

Posted: 8/21/07 at 8:19pm

I have searched endlessly for a detailed synopsis of LaChiusa's The Wild Party and cannot find one. I love the score but would love to figure out what the hell is going on. If someone could point me to a good synopsis of the show that would be wonderful. Thanks!

re: Wild Party Synopsis

Posted: 8/21/07 at 8:24pm

I adore both scores. Brilliant writring, brilliant theatre!

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

re: Wild Party Synopsis

Posted: 8/21/07 at 8:35pm

The best synopsis would be the source material itself. Most any Barnes and Noble should have a copy of Jospeh Moncure March's work. There's even an edition that's illustrated by Art Spiegelman. It's stunning.

re: Wild Party Synopsis

Posted: 8/21/07 at 8:37pm

The source poem is good, but not if you're trying to figure out the differences between the two shows, as both are based on the poem yet have somewhat different plots.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

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