Lippa wild party script pdf professional#

Betty OвЂ™HellnoвЂ™s (best burlesque name EVER) costumes naughtily combine black leather, corsets (on both sexes) and lace with suggestions of Jazz Age chemises and evening dress. The set and costumes are not specific to the Roaring Twenties, with Ryan HaaseвЂ™s set a dreamlike, purplish evocation of an apartment-turned-sex parlor, with lots of mauve velvet banquettes and other plush surfaces for canoodling-not to mention a toilet and a mussed bed, which get hard use throughout. Allison Bradbury and Justin Michael Mazzella in Andrew LippaвЂ™s The Wild Party from Iron Crow Theatre (Photo: Rob Clatterbuck) Director Sean Elias shifts the showвЂ™s perspective to what he calls вЂњsense of queerness,вЂќ and the result removes the period piece limitations, giving the production a tingling freedom and daring.

Lippa wild party script pdf professional#

Iron Crow, BaltimoreвЂ™s professional GLBTQ theater ensemble, has taken on the ambitious task of staging The Wild PartyВё live orchestra, large cast, challenging material and all. With those hardboiled, magical words, Joseph Moncure MarchвЂ™s 1928 Jazz Age poem вЂњThe Wild PartyвЂќ begins, as does Andrew LippaвЂ™s darkly glittering musical adaptation. вЂњQueenie was a blonde and her age stood still,/And she danced twice a day in vaudeville.вЂќ