Audition Notices are out -- Get Wild

Devanesen Productions

Presents

The Australasian Premiere of

THE WILD PARTY

In Concert

Music and Lyrics by

MICHAEL JOHN LaCHIUSA

Book by MICHAEL JOHN LaCHIUSA and GEORGE.C. WOLFE

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.

Each of the primary characters is vibrant and established. The Wild Party was nominated for 7 Tony Awards and starred Toni Collette and Mandy Patinkin on Broadway

AUDITIONS :

We are seeking a very strong ensemble cast of just 7 Women and 8 men.

‘Speechless’ 2 Denham Street, Hawthorn. (Corner of Wood and Denham Street)

Tuesday July 18^th

Thursday July 20^th

All auditionees must be available for Call Backs on

Sunday July 23^rd 1:00 – 5:00 pm.

Rehearsals take place on Tuesday and Thursday nights 7:30 – 10:30pm and Sundays 1:00 – 5:00pm in Hawthorn. Rehearsals commence Tuesday July 25^th. The show will play at Gasworks Arts Park in September.

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