Trashy and wicked, `Party' is a lot of fun

The Boston Globe;  May 1, 2007 ;     685 words ......Musical by Andrew Lippa, based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March Direction and musical staging: Rick Lombardo...fascinating, vicious and vivacious," one critic said of Joseph Moncure March's poem "The Wild Party" when it was first published...

FIRE & ICE THEATER 2000

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......but often entertaining, the Broadway version of Joseph Moncure March's Jazz Age poem, written by Michael John LaChiusa...Broadway success. "The Wild Party" times two: Joseph Moncure March's hard-edged ballad of the Roaring Twenties was...

'Wild Party': The Boring Twenties; Studio's Riffs Often Smother Spark of...

The Washington Post;  July 22, 1999 ;     599 words ......two years, an obscure young New York poet named Joseph Moncure March finally published to scandalous acclaim "The Wild...conceived by Keith Alan Baker and based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March. Directed by Keith Alan Baker. Choreography, Robert...

PICK OF THE WEEK.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  March 20, 1999 ;     391 words ...THEATRE William Burroughs said that it was reading Joseph Moncure March's poem The Wild Party that made him want to become a writer. Written in 1926 when March was a young journalist, it was published...

Two tempting theatrical reasons for using the word genius; The Wild Party...

The Birmingham Post (England);  March 25, 1999 ;     282 words ......of two talented and willing performers. It is based on a long and scurrilous rhyming poem, written in 1926 by Joseph Moncure March, which describes in cynical detail a debauched Hollywood party. In itself it is no more than a curious footnote...

`PARTY' BRIMS WITH ENERGY, TALENT

The Boston Globe;  October 30, 2004 ;     443 words ......in 2000, both based on the narrative jazz-age poem once banned in Boston by a New Yorker writer of the 1920s, Joseph Moncure March. Neither Michael John LaChiusa's nor Andrew Lippa's version became a hit, but both have enjoyed afterlives on...

REVELATIONS AMID ALL THE REVELRY

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ......is the season's second musical to be based on Joseph Moncure March's epic 1928 poem about a debauched Jazz Age night...and Mandy Patinkin in "The Wild Party," based on Joseph Moncure March's epic 1928 poem. Keywords: THEATER. SHOW. NEW...

The Wild Party

Pittsburgh City Paper;  April 28, 2004 ;     571 words ......1928 novella-length poem, supposedly suggested by the infamous Fatty Arbuckle/Virginia Rappe case, written by Joseph Moncure March about a bathtub-gin-soaked Jazz Age party ending in murder. In 1975, a loosely adapted screen version appeared...

The Two-Party System: A sexy, shocking classic of the jazz age...

Newsweek;  March 6, 2000 ;     403 words ......York theater season is the coming of two separate shows based on, of all things, a narrative poem from the 1920s, Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party. Sensational and shocking in 1928, the book was banned in Boston for its bawdy story of sex...

'Wild Party' might be too wild for some viewers

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  May 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ...THEATER REVIEW Think of Queenie and Burrs as the Frankie and Johnny of the Roaring '20s. Joseph Moncure March probably did when he wrote the 1928 full-length verse narrative "The Wild Party." Pumping his poetry with the insistence of jazz...

Edinburgh '98: Theatre

The Independent - London;  August 27, 1998 ;     109 words ...JOSEPH MONCURE'S salacious verse satire on debauched socialites, The Wild Party, written in 1926, gets a swinging stage premiere at the hands...

Director Julia seeks a sexy success from banned poem.

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  June 14, 1998 ;     294 words ......Hollywood legends Jean Harlow, Clark Cable and Marlene Dietrich in a stage version of The Wild Party - an erotic work by Joseph Moncure Marsh. Birmingham's Julia Smith uncovered the poem by chance and now her sexy adaptation looks set to become the cult show...

`WILD PARTY' FALLS FLAT ON ITS PROMISE

The Boston Globe;  February 6, 2002 ;     654 words ......and George C. Wolfe's "The Wild Party" is one of two recent musicals based on a 1926 banned- in-Boston poem by Joseph Moncure March about a jazz-age party with desperate people in search of gin and sin, people who could have stepped out of a...

`Party' for the foolhardy is too wild

New York Amsterdam News;  May 17, 2000 ;     337 words ......watching that awful production of "The Wild Party" presently playing at the Virginia Theater. The musical, based on Joseph Moncure March's jazzage poem, reveals a world which resembles a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. The cast of characters includes...

culture club: Wild Party at The Customs House.(Features)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  February 8, 2008 ;     175 words ......February 12. Highly entertaining and unusually comic, Wild Party mixes dance, theatre, music and wit to re-tell Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem The Wild Party - a story of alcoholism, infidelity and violence. A sell-out at the Edinburgh Festival...