THE WILD PARTY - In Concert - Australasian Premiere

Devanesen Productions www.devanesenproductions.com Presents THE AUSTRALASIAN PREMIERE OF THE WILD PARTY In Concert Music & Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa Book by Michael John LaChiusa & George C. Wolfe Belinda Griffiths Glaston Toft Andrew Pennycuik Sophie Thomas Barbara Hughes David Bleier Karl McNamara Nick Kong Katie Cullinan Jane Nethercote Erin Zadow James Schaw Emily Devlin Ben Fuller Cameron Thomas Season : September 21st 22nd 23rd @ 8pm September 23rd 2pm Matinee, September 24th @ 6pm Gasworks Arts Park, Corner of Graham Street and Pickles Street, Albert Park Bookings: 9699 3253 Online Bookings : www.gasworks.org.au All Tickets $32.50 For more information, contact sunnytheatre@yahoo.com Manhattan decadence in the 1920s provides the backdrop for this tough musical fable. Queenie, a vaudeville chorine, hosts the blow-out of the title with her vicious lover, a black-face minstrel. The guests are a vivid collection of the unruly and the undone; Queenie's conniving rival; a cocaine-sniffing bisexual playboy; a washed-up boxer; a black brother act; a diva of indeterminable age and infinite life experience; the fresh-off-the-farm ingénue whose naiveté quickly evaporates; a lesbian actress and her comatose girlfriend; and the bargain basement Valentino who catches Queenie's roving eye. The jazz and gin soaked party rages to a mounting sense of threat as artifice and illusion are stripped away. When midnight debauchery leads them to tragedy at dawn, the high-flying characters land with a sobering thud, reminding us that no party lasts forever.