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It's the roaring 1920s and the beautiful, young Queenie, although she tries, cannot find a lover able to satisfy her desires – until she meets Burrs, a vaudevillian clown with a voracious appetite for women. Both Queenie and Burrs have now met their emotional and sexual match ("Queenie Was a Blonde").
The Wild Party Book, Music, and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa Adapted from a book-length poem written in and about the Roaring Twenties, The Wild Party tells the story of one wild evening in the Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville dancer and a vaudeville clown.
Synopsis. Based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 poem of the same name, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party tells the story of a vaudeville dancer named Queenie and a vaudeville clown named Burrs--her passionate and violent lover. Queenie is fed up with the life she lives and the pain Burrs puts her through, so she decides to throw the party to end ...
Queenie Was a Blonde Lyrics: QUEENIE / Queenie was a blonde and her age stood still / And she danced twice a day in vaudeville / Queenie was a blonde, and if looks could kill / She would...
Jul 14, 2015 · The July 15-18 Encores! Off-Center staging of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party will star Sutton Foster as Queenie and Steven Pasquale as Burrs. We have rehearsal pics!
Jul 15, 2015 · 206. 34K views 8 years ago. Andrew Lippa’s tragic Jazz Age love story The Wild Party follows party girl Queenie (two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster) over the course of one decadent,...
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Lippa then went on to write the book, music, and lyrics for The Wild Party. He began work in 1996, and the Manhattan Theatre Club presented a reading of the first act later that year. Julia Murney, who later played the lead role of Queenie, was in the ensemble of that reading.
