![]() ![]() ![]() Never having seen Michael John LaChiusa's version, I won't join the fierce debate over the relative merits of the two musicals. And "The Wild Party" inspired not one but two musical adaptations - one of which, the Andrew Lippa Off Broadway version, is now casting its dark glow on the New Repertory Theatre's stage. Art Spiegelman paid tribute with an illustrated edition in 1994. William Burroughs called it the book that made him want to be a writer. ![]() March's poem was quickly banned in Boston. In the decades since, this lurid, violent, rhyming saga of the vaudeville dancer Queenie, her lover Burrs the clown, and the deadly fete they throw one night has lost none of its nasty allure. WATERTOWN - "Repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious," one critic said of Joseph Moncure March's poem "The Wild Party" when it was first published, just before the Twenties stopped roaring. ![]()
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