Lippa Wild Party Script Pdf
Andrew Lippa’s, The Wild Party. Andrew Lippa's Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades. Wild Party Script.pdf. Uploader avatar Bethany Closer Than Ever Vocal Score. Uploader avatar NickTudor1990 City of Angels Vocal. The Wild Party Book, Music, and Lyrics: Andrew Lippa Adapted from a book-length poem written in and about the Roaring Twenties, The Wild Party tells the story of one wild evening in the Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville dancer and a vaudeville clown.
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joined:3/30/04
Posted: 8/31/08 at 2:15am
Really? The thing I like most about his version is that I think a lot of the songs completely fit the period. He captured what I imagine NYC in the 1920s was like.
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Posted: 8/31/08 at 2:18am
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Posted: 8/31/08 at 10:29am
I bought that CD when I was 13 or 14 after having seen a number on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. It took a little while to warm up to all of the songs, but it really opened my eyes to what theatre music could be. It's just so freaking brilliant. I loved it then and still love it now!
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Posted: 8/31/08 at 12:42pm
BWAH! Really? Have you heard any music from the era?
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Posted: 8/31/08 at 2:04pm
Toni Collette, Mandy Patinkin, Marc Kudisch, Eartha Kitt, Sally Murphy, Norm Lewis, Jane Summerhays, Leah Hocking all gave amazing performances. The staging was brilliant.
..and I hated it.
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Posted: 8/31/08 at 2:06pm
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Posted: 8/31/08 at 2:33pm
The LaChiusa version is the one that really stuck with me, though. So many odd moments, disturbing visuals, jarring and uncomfortable numbers and some striking staging, particularly the way the set started to breakaway as the evening went on. I think the score pays off in repeated hearings and I'm sorry I didn't go back to see it a second time before it left. It really was a bit of a one-of-a-kind evening.
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Posted: 8/31/08 at 5:58pm
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Posted: 8/31/08 at 6:42pm
I actually wanna go to the Little Fish Concert next week. Does Joe's Pub offer discount tickets? $30 plus a 2 drink minimum is kind of intense.
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Posted: 3/30/09 at 6:05pm
Lippa's is significantly more sophisticated both musically and in the rawness of the story/characters.
Anyone can get a name (Mandy and Toni) to boost their show, but few can get the acclaim and talent that Lippa drew.
Come on people listen to the score closely. It is intricate and as finely woven as persian silk. It is a crisp, elegant romp into the the seedier side of life.
Lippa's is by far the more significant work. LaChiusa is juvenile and underdeveloped.
Lippa is my hero.
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Posted: 3/30/09 at 6:39pm
People that think Lippa's version is better are unsophisticated twinks that only think things are 'Fierce' because there is high belting involved.
LaChiusa's version completely emobodies the tone of the orgininal short story..from the music to the staging of the revolving set where the characters never leave..
PLUS LaChiusa's score is INSANELY HARD..seriously..'Wild' has like 10 people singing completely different parts at the same time..so complicated.
The only reason the Lippa music is more popular is because it's way easier to play and is way more vocally show-ey.
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Posted: 3/30/09 at 8:00pm
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Posted: 3/30/09 at 8:35pm
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Posted: 3/31/09 at 2:11am
Sorry to be blunt, but it's just the God's honest truth and it had to be said.
The songs, by themselves, are really good, I like listening to them. And the production looked good, I like watching vids on 'that site'.
But it just LOOKED and SOUNDED cool.
Lippa's show couldn't be more schizophrenic in musical style. It's a story set in the 20s but he just stuffs it with the most anachronistic and disparate sounds. That might be okay somewhere else, but The Wild Party is deeply rooted in 1920s America. When doing a period piece, pick a genre and stick with it (see Parade, hell even The Wedding Singer).
Lippa's version is in no way authentic to me. I can't care about the characters as much as I do in LaChuisa's, the costumes/makeup, book and music destroy my emotional connection to the piece and it just becomes something beautiful and riffy to be entertained by. Which is how I would best describe the two shows.
Lippa's is entertaining. LaChuisa's is mentally and psychologically nourishing.
LaChuisa and Wolfe built a musical where every instance, every song and line flowed in and out of each other and drove the story together. The drama in the book is much more realistic and heightened. All the characters are sharply defined. The score is a musical mathematical formula; it's so intricate and lush. It sounds gorgeous when it calls for it, and sounds ugly and unsettling when needed. There are so many themes expressed in the show, racism, integrity and honor of ethnic background, fame, interracial relationships, the American Dream, drug abuse, excess, sexual depravity, youth corruption, homosexuality, abuse, mental instability. Lippa skims across some of these while LaChuisa delves deep into them (in only one act no less), sometimes too deep for comfort, which is what makes a great piece of art; something that forces you to think and participate, to be offended, disturbed or excited and thirsty to form a well rounded opinion.
Lippa made a cool show that has powerful vocals and is fun to sing along to. Yeah, the story has drama. But to me, watching Lippa's Wild Party is just watching four brats get drunk and whine loudly at each other while a bunch of other one-dimensional people who are obviously not original, personable or important enough to get more than four lines get just as drunk in the background.
LaChuisa wrote a theatrical masterpiece.
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 1:21am
Bringing this back up, because of the production of Lippa's version that's happening soon. It seems pretty split. Any new thoughts on this thread?
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 1:43am
I really love both. There is plenty of room for them both to exist.
That being said, I feel as if Lippa wrote a musical rooted in the singular emotions of these characters, while LaChiusa wrote a musical rooted in character. Lippa's (IMO) really makes you feel for these characters with it's bold strokes, but half the time you don't really know what's going on. I didn't truly understand the story/original poem until I heard LaChiusa's version.
Both have some absolutely stunning moments: 'People Like Us' (one of the greatest songs ever composed for musical theatre) & 'When It Ends' from LaChiusa's, and 'Maybe I Like It This Way' and 'The Life of the Party' from Lippa's, just to name a few.
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 1:59am
A year ago, I was almost completely unfamiliar with both versions, but now I have been lucky enough to see a production of each version in recent months. I much prefer LaChiusa's version. The score is grounded in the period much more, and it's a dream for a music geek like me. All the mixed meter, dissonant harmonies, and that one crazy moment with eight completely different vocal lines layered on top of each other.. it really makes Lippa's score seem tame by comparison. Also, structurally, LaChiusa's version gives each of the minor characters more to work with, and they get slightly more focus, whereas Lippa's is really just about four characters while a bunch of other people happen to be there and occasionally take the spotlight just to fill time.
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 2:07am
If you like 2 hours of belting and screeching from unlikable characters you don't care about, you'll love the Lippa version.
I'd indulge the concert production for the all star cast, and because, as stand alones, a few songs a quite good. However, I am not in the city for a while (had LaChiusa's version been performed, that would be a different matter)
The Wild Party Lippa Script Pdf
I'll simply quote Variety as LaChiusa and Wolfe have no need for me to defend their show 'LaChiusa and Wolfe’s “Wild Party” is superior in every respect to the previous version'.
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 2:30pm
Lippa's Wild Party is another 'modern' show that will be considered tacky and dated in a few years. It doesn't have the timelessness that Lachiusa's score has.
Lippa's is a popcorn score. It's incredibly pedestrian.
Plus I don't want to hear Idina Menzel screech her vocal chords out.
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:02pm
It honestly depends on your personal taste. I love both.
Lippa's score is more 'alive' and I definitely agree that his score is filled with more stand-alone songs than story-driving songs. In essence, it's basically a score filled with great audition songs.
LaChiusa's score is more textured and challenging, and his songs are very well integrated into the plot. His lyrics are also much deeper and much more characteristic of the show.
I do think that the original production of LaChiusa's was superior to the original production of Lippa's (going to the Encores production in a few weeks, very excited) but both scores are quite amazing if you ask me.
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:05pm
Lippa Wild Party Script
I've never seen or listened to the whole album of both versions but I do hear Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party 'The Life of the Party' sung by Idina Menzel all the time. So good!
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:18pm
LaChiusa's musical is a brilliant and human take on bigotry and its trickle-down effects, using Moncure March's 'The Wild Party' as a jumping off point to explore this sociological phenomenon. This is well and good, and perhaps deeply important. But to me, the reason I love the book 'The Wild Party' so much is its grisly, decadent element of the grotesque. It's the jazz equivalent of an Edward Gorey sketch. With its tighter focus on Burrs's mad, somewhat self-created love triangle, and the creative decision to make the party guests sinister, vaguely repulsive cartoon characters as opposed to LaChiusa's deeply explored archetypes, Lippa's adaptation speaks to what I like about the work, more than it necessarily speaks to what makes 'progressive musical theatre.'
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:28pm
I prefer the Lippa version. I tried listening to the LaChusia version and the music was weird. Maybe I need to listen to it again.
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:40pm
I didn't see either staging and have only heard the LaChiusa via download. But I was SHOCKED at how much I like it, even at first hearing! And it's obviously a score that reveals much more with each new listen.
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Posted: 7/3/15 at 4:54pm
I know this is the leventy-leven thread on this subject, but for whatever reason, THIS is the thread that sent me to iTunes to download the Lippa version.
Wild Party Lippa Script Pdf
So there's something to be said for repetition..
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- FromFirst Performance Fee:Each Additional Performance:TypeStarting KeyEstimated durationMusic byLyrics byInstrumentation4 Piano Conductor Scores, 1 Bass, 1 Drums, 1 Guitar, 1 Keyboard 2, 1 Reed 1, 1 Reed 2, 1 Reed 3, 1 Trumpet
- FromFirst Performance Fee:Each Additional Performance:TypeEstimated durationMusic byLyrics byInstrumentation2 Piano-Conductor Scores, 1 Bass, 1 Drums, 1 Guitar, 1 Keyboard2 (synth),1 Flute, 1 Clarinet, 1 Bass Clarinet, 1 Flugelhorn
- FromFirst Performance Fee:Each Additional Performance:TypeStarting KeyEstimated durationMusic byLyrics byInstrumentation1 Bass, 1 Drums, 1 Guitar, 1 Keyboard, 4 Piano Conductor Scores, 1 Reed 1, 1 Reed 2, 1 Reed 3, 1 Trumpet