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| re: the superior Wild Party | |
| Posted by: kidmanboy 08:10 am EST 11/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: LaChiusa's The Wild Party - Chazwaza 01:19 am EST 11/20/22 | |
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| What's most frustrating is that Lipppa's Wild Party seems to get much more attention - the Encores Off-Center production, schools and regional theaters, etc. I was shocked at Encores by how little that version mines from the story compared to LaChiusa's. It made me downright angry that they did that version before LaChiusa's, which I think is a masterpiece and hope it gets its day again in NY in my lifetime. | |
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| re: the superior Wild Party | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:36 pm EST 11/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: the superior Wild Party - kidmanboy 08:10 am EST 11/20/22 | |
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| I couldn't agree more. Looking at the two supposed adaptations offers a masterclass in adaptation from LaChiusa & Wolfe, compared to a surface level lazy attempt by Lippa. I'll grant that Lippa's score is fun, and a lot of people like it, but the show itself is not my cup of tea... whereas I can't get enough of LaChiusa's. LaChiusa's score is an intelligent layered masterpiece and is also very fun - a lot more fun if you ask me. I think Encores did Lippa's because Sutton wanted to do it (miscast though she was). But I think it was a bad choice. It's also a show that gets produced pretty often around the country. |
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| I love Andrew Lippa's wild 'Wild Party' | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 01:42 pm EST 11/20/22 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 01:28 pm EST 11/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: the superior Wild Party - kidmanboy 08:10 am EST 11/20/22 | |
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| I didn't get to see Encores' version with Sutton Foster, Steven Pasquale, Brandon Victor Dixon and Joaquina Kalukango in 2015. Or the West End revival in 2019. But I caught the original 2000 Off-Broadway production a couple of times at Manhattan Theater Club. What a great and energetic cast! Brian d'Arcy James, Idina Menzel, Julia Murney, Taye Diggs and Alix Korey. I've never forget Korey bringing down the house with ''An Old-Fashioned Love Story'' or James raising the roof with ''Let Me Drown.'' Plus, Michael Gibson's rousing orchestrations. But above all, Andrew Lippa's sensational score, which (to me) is one of the most terrifically tuneful ones of the 2000s. Other songs I enjoyed: ''A Wild, Wild Party,'' ''Raise the Roof,'' ''What Is It About Her?'' and ''How Did We Come to This?'' I wish Lippa's show moved to Broadway for the Tony attention it deserved. Oh, well. We've always got the cast album. ''What a Party,'' indeed. |
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| Link | 'The Wild Party' - Off-Broadway 2000 - Reviewer's Reel (snippets of the show) |
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