The Wild Party, 2000

The run closed June 11, 2000

Opened

April 13, 2000

Closed

June 11, 2000

Performances

54

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

August Wilson Theatre

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 293rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it13 named

Yancey Arias
Adam Grupper
Brooke Sunny Moriber

10 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Gabriel Barre

Choreographer

Joey McKneely

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical

Nominated

Recordings 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Wild Party, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

The Wild Party is a musical with book, lyrics, and music by Andrew Lippa. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, it coincidentally made its debut off-Broadway during the same theatre season (1999–2000) as a Broadway production with the same name and source material.

• The Wild Party, based on a 1928 poem by Joseph Moncure March, with music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa and a book by LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe (who also directed). It was produced in April 2000 by The New York Shakespeare Festival/Joseph Papp Public Theater and starred Mandy Patinkin, Toni Collette, and Eartha… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 222
• Porgy and Bess (1935), Finian’s Rainbow (1947), Street Scene (1947), Big River (1985), Ragtime (1998), Parade (1998), The Wild Party (2000), and Hair-spray (2002). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 321
• La Chiusa’s musical was the second Wild Party to appear in New York in 2000; an off-Broadway musical with the same title and source material, with book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, opened at the Manhattan Theatre Club City Center Stage I on 24 February 2000 and played for 88 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 413
• two musicals based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem The Wild Party premiered; Andrew Lippa’s adaptation opened Off-Broadway in February, and Michael John LaChiusa‘s version in April. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 571
• Three months after Marie Christine closed, LaChiusa’s adaptation of Joseph Moncure March’s poem The Wild Party premiered. Although it was occasionally cluttered and confused, its book was more structurally sound than the one for Marie Christine and its score and performances more winning. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 398

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 1 recordings of The Wild Party document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.