Word: lachiusa
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...Wild Party, version A, which opens on Broadway in April, boasts the biggest firepower: a star cast that includes Mandy Patinkin, Eartha Kitt and Oscar nominee (for The Sixth Sense) Toni Collette; music and lyrics by highly touted young composer Michael John LaChiusa (Marie Christine); and direction by co-adapter George C. Wolfe, head of New York City's Public Theater. But their show is being beaten to the boards by The Wild Party, version B, with book, music and lyrics by less highly touted young composer Andrew Lippa (who contributed some bouncy new numbers to the recent Broadway revival...
...this happen? Lippa says he discovered the poem in a bookstore in 1995 and saw it as a chance to write "my Cats," referring to the soon-to-close Andrew Lloyd Webber show based on T.S. Eliot's poetry. LaChiusa says he first read the poem even earlier--1994, so there!--though he didn't start to work on it for nearly three years. Lippa's version was the first to be staged, in a workshop production at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut in the summer of 1997. (LaChiusa's had its first reading a few months...