Heading up Broadway's The Wild Party are (left to right) 2000 Academy Award nominee Toni Collette, Tonya Pinkins (Play On!), legend Eartha Kitt and Broadway star Mandy Patinkin. 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). Collette stars as Queenie with Patinkin as Burrs and Kitt as Dolores.
