The Wild Party (LaChiusa) (2000 Original Broadway Cast)

The Wild Party (LaChiusa) (2000 Original Broadway Cast)

The Wild Party (LaChiusa) (2000 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Music Label: Decca Broadway
Soundtracks:
  1. Queenie Was a Blonde
  2. Marie is Tricky
  3. Wild Party
  4. Dry
  5. Welcome to My Party
  6. Like Sally
  7. Breezin' Through Another Day
  8. Uptown
  9. Eddie & Mae
  10. Gold & Goldberg
  11. Moving Uptown
  12. Best Friend
  13. A Little Mmm
  14. Tabu/Taking Care of the Ladies
  15. Wouldn't It Be Nice?
  16. Lowdown-Down
  17. Gin/Wild
  18. Black Is A Moocher
  19. People Like Us
  20. After Midnight Dies
  21. Golden Boy
  22. The Movin' Uptown Blues
  23. The Lights of Broadway
  24. More
  25. Love Ain't Nothin'/Welcome to Her Party
  26. How Many Women in the World
  27. When It Ends
  28. This Is What It Is
  29. Finale

Music reviews of The Wild Party (LaChiusa) (2000 Original Broadway Cast)

Music Review: this aint no Rodgers and Hart
Rating: 1 Stars

What ever happened to the Gershwins, or Berlin, or Cole Porter or anyone else who can write music? On the positive side: The CD cover has nice art work. Otherwise: In my opinon, this music? is a pile of you know what. I defy you to tell me which song from the show that you're humming when you leave the theatre or after you've shut off the cd player? I guess i'm just a little miffed because I actually paid money for the CD (growl).

Description of The Wild Party (LaChiusa) (2000 Original Broadway Cast)

With his controversial The Wild Party, prolific composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa continues to stretch the possibilities for contemporary musical theater. His racy musical is based on a 1928 poem about one night of escalating decadence, through which LaChiusa stages a brilliant, savage, polystylistic unmasking of the lies we live by. The original cast recording captures the manic energy of the top-rate cast, including Mandy Patinkin, Toni Collette, and Eartha Kitt all working together in electrifying ensemble. --Thomas May
Ever since he emerged in the 1990s as one of Broadway's brightest hopes, the young and prolific composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa has been charged with the undeniably Sisyphean task of revitalizing the moribund musical. Along with such Tony-nominated efforts as 1999's Marie Christine--his Americanized retelling of the Medea tragedy--LaChiusa has managed to galvanize the genre with The Wild Party. Curiously enough, Joseph Moncure March's once-banned narrative poem of Prohibition-era decadence is the basis for two vastly different musicals produced within the same season (the other being Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway show at Manhattan Theatre Club). LaChiusa's work, which was produced by the Public Theatre's visionary director George C. Wolfe (who also collaborated on the book), kick-starts the new century with a manic, many-leveled, viciously satirical portrait--both brilliantly period and postmodern--of jazz-era alienation, sketching its "sexually ambitious" and "ambi-sextrous" promenade of characters with bold, flinty strokes. In addition to the 1928 poem, it seems equally inspired by The Threepenny Opera, Stephen Sondheim's dark humors, even Ann Douglas's cultural history, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. LaChiusa depicts the party-turned-nightmare trajectory of the story through complex, polystylistic counterpoint, as well as such searingly straightforward numbers as "After Midnight Dies"; even the orchestrations (by Bruce Coughlin) are fantastically detailed and allusive. Mandy Patinkin is made to draw on his full repertory of shticks and gives a wildly over-the-top characterization of the vaudeville clown Burrs, while Toni Collette (an Oscar nominee for The Sixth Sense), playing his unhappy lover Queenie who throws this mother of all parties, plays against him with toxic, combustible energy. For all the star turns here (including some economical but superbly effective cameos by Eartha Kitt), it's the unflappable ensemble that keeps this party going till the bitter end. --Thomas May

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