THE WILD PARTY was directed and choreographed by 2016 Olivier Award-winner Drew McOnie (In the Heights) and starred the Tony Award-winning Frances Ruffelle (Les Miserables)and was performed at The Other Palace for 7 weeks from February 2017.

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Set against a backdrop of Manhattan

decadence and 1920’s excess, THE WILD PARTY tells the story of Queenie and Burrs, a

Vaudeville showgirl and a Vaudeville clown whose relationship is marked by vicious behavior and recklessness. In an attempt to salvage their toxic union, they decide to throw a party to end all parties. The guests are a vivid collection of the unruly and the undone: a cocaine-sniffing bisexual playboy; a washed-up boxer; a diva of indeterminate age; a fresh-faced ingénue; and a handsome 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. But when midnight debauchery turns into tragedy, the revelers must sober up and face reality. After all, no party lasts forever.

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Based on Joseph Moncure March’s narrative

poem of the same title, THE WILD PARTY

originally opened on Broadway in 2000 with

a cast including Toni Collette, Mandy Patinkin

and Eartha Kitt. The production received 7 Tony Award nominations,and a Grammy Award nomination for its composer and lyricist Michael John LaChiusa.