The Wild Party
Virginia Theatre
Previews Began: March 10, 2000
Opening Night: April 13, 2000
Closing Night: June 11, 2000
Music: Michael John LaChiusa
Lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa
Book: Michael John LaChiusa
George C. Wolfe
Queenie and Burrs, a vaudevillian couple who are constantly quarreling, throw a party to end all parties, struggling to make the other jealous. In the process, Queenie falls in love with Black and things come to a head at the end of the night forcing Queenie to move out.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
Queenie Was a Blonde/Marie is Tricky/Wild
Party……………………………….Queenie, Burrs, Company
Dry…………………..Burrs, Jackie, Miss Madelaine True,
Sally, Eddie Mackrel, Mae, Nadine,
Brothers D’Armano, Dolores
Welcome to My Party………………………………..Queenie
Like Sally……………………………….Miss Madelaine True
Breezin’ Through Another Day……………………….Jackie
Uptown……………………………………..Brothers D’Armano
Eddie and Mae…………………………Eddie Mackrel, Mae
Gold and Goldberg…………………………..Gold, Goldberg
Moving Uptown………………………………………….Dolores
Black Bottom……………………………..Queenie, Company
Best Friend………………………………………Queenie, Kate
A Little M-M-M………………………..Brothers D’Armano
Tabu/Taking Care of the Ladies……Oscar D’Armano,
Black, Company
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?………………………………………Burrs
Lowdown-Down………………………………………..Queenie
Gin………………………………………………..Burrs, Company
Wild………………………………………………………..Company
Need………………………Miss Madelaine True, Company
Black Is a Moocher………………………………………….Kate
People Like Us…………………………………Queenie, Black
After Midnight Dies………………………………………..Sally
Golden Boy………..Eddie Mackrel, Brothers D’Armano
The Movin’ Uptown Blues………………..Gold, Goldberg
The Lights of Broadway……………………………….Nadine
More…………………………………………………………….Jackie
Love Ain’t Nothing’/Welcome to Her Party/What I
Need………………………………………Kate, Burrs, Queenie
How Many Women in the World?…………………..Burrs
When It Ends……………………………………………..Dolores
This Is What It Is………………………………………Queenie
Finale……………………………..Queenie, Burrs, Company