The Wild Party (La Chiusa)

The 1920s proved to be a difficult time for Queenie, a vaudeville dancer, and her violent lover Burrs, a vaudeville blackface actor. When things get violent between them and Queenie threatens Burrs, he suggests they throw a party and invite all their friends over to ease the tension. The party is an eclectic collection of their rough and tumble friends. Queenie's rival, a young "ambisextrous" drug addict, a has-been boxer, a duo of brother-lovers, a diva, an ingenue, a lesbian actress and her morphine-addicted girlfriend, and a mysterious escort who attracts her. attention from Queenie. The party slowly decays with passion and pleasure to a sobering tragic end. Illusions disappear as guests find themselves in the reality of who they are and what they are faced with in this world masked with glamor.

Find the performance of The Wild Party during the Tony Awards of 2000:
General information
  • Style : Tragedy
  • Theme : Showbiz, 20s, Violence
  • year of creation : 2000
Music
  • Composer :Michael John LaChiusa
  • Lyricist :Michael John LaChiusa
  • Librettist : George C. Wolfe & Michael John LaChiusa
  • famous songs "Queenie Was a Blonde/Marie Is Tricky/ WildParty" "Dry" "Welcome to My Party" "Like Sally" "'Breezin'" "Uptown" "Eddie & Mae" "Gold & Goldberg" "Moving Uptown" "Black Bottom" "Best Friend" "A Little MMM" "Tabu/Taking Care of the Ladies" "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" "Lowdown-Down" "Gin" "Wild" "Need" "Black Is a Moocher" "People Like Us" "After Midnight Dies" "Golden Boy" "The Movin' Uptown Blues" "The Lights of Broadway" "More" "Love Ain't Nothin'/Welcome to Her Party/What I Need" "How Many Women in the World?" "When It Ends" "This is What It Is" "Finale"
  • Famous performers : Toni Collette, Frances Ruffelle, Mandy Patinkin, John Owen-Jones, Yancey Arias, Simon Thomas, Eartha Kitt, Donna McKechnie, Marc Kudisch, Dex Lee, Tonya Pinkins, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Norm Lewis, Ako Mitchell, Genesis Lynea, Bronte Barbe.
kinships
  • Inspired by another work : The musical is based on the narrative poetry "The Wild Party" by Joseph Moncure March.
Awards
  • Appointments and Awards : The musical won 1 Theater World Award.
  • Number of performances : 68
  • anecdotes : There are two musicals called "The Wild Party". They opened in New York a few months apart in 2000 and still divide fans. Even if they are both inspired by the same work, they are very different in style and on the themes addressed.
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