Went to CU's new production Wild Party yesterday with friends. It is produced by CU Musical Theatre Society, an incredibely young crew with tremendous energy and charm! Most of the performers are freshmen or sophomore and the live jazz band is fantastic. Considering the time and money limit they face, this version of the ex-Broadway show is really a decent try-on.
The storyline is very simple. "Adapted from a book-length poem written in and about the Roaring Twenties, Andrew Lippa's 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. In a relationship marked by vicious behavior and recklessness (mirroring the time in which they live), they decide to throw a party to end all parties. "
A recent production was around July 2005 and the critics reviewed it as follows "On top of all this, "The Wild Party" conveys a sense of the decadent side of New York of the 1920s better than anything I can recall since F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Lippa's score deserved more attention and admiration when his show debuted at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2000, and this production's formidably gifted cast captures the youthful, hedonistic, self-destructive pulse of the Jazz Age -- its dangerous, crash-and-burn, live-for-the-moment fervor-- with riveting intensity."
What a coincidence! I just finish the Great Gatsby and encounter the Wild Party right away. I miss the sensitional time in history with endless possibilities and a deep sense of lost of the past world.
Ennis could not bear the dress of the performers and he quit the show after 15 mins. The rest of us enjoy it very much. Both Ennis and Otsman are Turkish, Yan and I are Chinese. There was lots of fun in the afterward dinner. I felt much comfortable to spare time with them than the previous night, when we dined out with two Chinese documentary film makers after the show. The turkish language is very interesting and it shares same grammatic structure as Japaness. Hope I could go to Istanbul as Yan did last summer some day. She and Ennis spend two weeks in Xi'an and then went to Turkey for another two weeks.
2006年3月27日星期一
Wild Party and Turkish Charm
Went to CU's new production Wild Party yesterday with friends. It is produced by CU Musical Theatre Society, an incredibely young crew with tremendous energy and charm! Most of the performers are freshmen or sophomore and the live jazz band is fantastic. Considering the time and money limit they face, this version of the ex-Broadway show is really a decent try-on.
The storyline is very simple. "Adapted from a book-length poem written in and about the Roaring Twenties, Andrew Lippa's 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. In a relationship marked by vicious behavior and recklessness (mirroring the time in which they live), they decide to throw a party to end all parties. "
A recent production was around July 2005 and the critics reviewed it as follows "On top of all this, "The Wild Party" conveys a sense of the decadent side of New York of the 1920s better than anything I can recall since F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Lippa's score deserved more attention and admiration when his show debuted at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2000, and this production's formidably gifted cast captures the youthful, hedonistic, self-destructive pulse of the Jazz Age -- its dangerous, crash-and-burn, live-for-the-moment fervor-- with riveting intensity."
What a coincidence! I just finish the Great Gatsby and encounter the Wild Party right away. I miss the sensitional time in history with endless possibilities and a deep sense of lost of the past world.
Ennis could not bear the dress of the performers and he quit the show after 15 mins. The rest of us enjoy it very much. Both Ennis and Otsman are Turkish, Yan and I are Chinese. There was lots of fun in the afterward dinner. I felt much comfortable to spare time with them than the previous night, when we dined out with two Chinese documentary film makers after the show. The turkish language is very interesting and it shares same grammatic structure as Japaness. Hope I could go to Istanbul as Yan did last summer some day. She and Ennis spend two weeks in Xi'an and then went to Turkey for another two weeks.
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