Deborah Gibson and Gregroy Hines (with his wife, Pamela Koslow Hines) were among the opening night attendees at the April 13 performance of the Public Theatre's The Wild Party.
Composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa wrote the The Wild Party libretto with George C. Wolfe (who directs), drawing on the narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March, who imagined a debauched Jazz Age party populated by playboys, show folk, drinkers, gangsters and hosts Queenie (a sex-driven chorine) and Burrs (her lover and a brutal vaudeville clown). Toni Collette stars as Queenie with Mandy Patinkin as Burrs and Eartha Kitt as Dolores.
