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Andrew Lippa on rewriting "Wild Party"

Posted by: kieran 01:16 pm EST 01/21/15

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re: Andrew Lippa on rewriting "Wild Party"

Posted by: Chromolume 05:51 pm EST 01/21/15
In reply to: Andrew Lippa on rewriting "Wild Party" - kieran 01:16 pm EST 01/21/15

I applaud Lippa's willingness to go back and reassess his own work. But for me, the crux of the problem with both Wild Party musicals - as much as I love both scores - is that there's simply not much of a story to dramatize. The poem may work on its own merits, but turning it into a theatrical property - especially with the the larger-than-life language of expressing emotion through song (which is, of course, what songs in musicals intrinsically do) - tends to reveal weaknesses rather than to enhance.


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Posted by: Chazwaza 09:30 pm EST 01/21/15
In reply to: re: Andrew Lippa on rewriting "Wild Party" - Chromolume 05:51 pm EST 01/21/15

Not to get into this old debate, but I still have to say... I think LaChiusa brilliant dramatized and musicalized the poem into a piece of theater... Lippa very much did not, in my opinion. I was on the edge of my seat, swept away by LaChiusa's Wild Party, invested in the characters, the concept, the party, the themes... I thought it was exceptional. Lippa's just misses the mark, and skates on the surface. It's like an adult wrote one and a teenager wrote the other.


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