The run closed June 11, 2000
- Opened
- April 13, 2000
- Closed
- June 11, 2000
- Performances
- 54
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 292nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it13 named
Yancey Arias
Adam Grupper
Leah Hocking
Brooke Sunny Moriber
9 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 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.
Characters14 roles recorded
Julia Murney Queenie
Brian d'Arcy James Burrs
Taye Diggs Mr. Black
Idina Menzel Kate
Alix Korey Madelaine True
Raymond Jaramillo McLeod Eddie
Jennifer Cody Mae
Kevin Cahoon Phil D’Armano
Charles Dillon Oscar D’Armano
Lawrence Keigwin Jackie
Peter Kapetan Sam Himmelstein
James Delisco Beeks Max
Kena Tangi Dorsey Dolores
Kristin McDonald Nadine
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
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 |
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
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Wild Party at all.
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