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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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