![]() ![]() ![]() The obvious next step would be to dig out whatever else March wrote that might be worth reviving, and Silent Theatre Company has taken it, staging March’s follow-up to The Wild Party, The Set-Up. Six years later, not one but two musical adaptations premiered in the same season: Andrew Lippa’s at the Manhattan Theatre Club (February) and Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who produced an illustrated edition, says William Burroughs once told him, “It’s the book that made me want to be a writer.”Įxcept for a misbegotten movie that conflated it with the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, The Wild Party was forgotten until Spiegelman’s version came out in 1994. Written in rhymed couplets (“Queenie was a blonde, and her age stood still, / And she danced twice a day in vaudeville.”), March’s tale of a lethal Manhattan soiree was a succes de scandale in 1928, thanks to its depictions of high life, low characters, brutal violence, and unusual sexual preferences. Joseph Moncure March was a preppy former student of Robert Frost who became managing editor of The New Yorker in its early days and made his name with The Wild Party, a book-length poem about Jazz Age decadence. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife. ![]() Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Ticket prices go up May 15 > Close ![]()
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