Talk:The Wild Party (poem)

message: This needs disambiguation. There's also Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party not to mention the original poem.
The comments comparing the two musicals ("but the music is drastically different, and, in the opinion of many, more powerful. This version starred ...While the music in the LaChiusa version is structured more for the purpose of furthering the plot and character development, Lippa's version is much bolder, and in the eyes of many, simply more fun.") do not seem to me to be in keeping with the neutrality policy of this site.
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Edit: 28/08/2005
I have restructured the article, in order to make the various versions a littler clearer.
I have not changed the text to deal with the neutrality dispute...
FB 2000 28/08/2005 00:50 BST
-- I deleted the reference to Lippa's being "bolder," which is a judgment call not in keeping with Wikipedia's NPOV.  Although against my better judgment, I left in the comment about people finding Lippa's more fun, because many people do consider it such.  But it still borders strongly on opinion, and I think that just about the entire page needs to be rewritten.  While I have a very strong preference when it comes to the musicals, it must be possible to write this article in such a way that acknowledges both without leaning to one side or another.  --WesternActor
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Wouldn't it be best to just have a disambiguation page, which leads to at least three pages:  One for the March poem, one for LaChiusa's stage version, and one for Lippa's?  Lumping them all together this way is pretty ridiculous, it seems to me, but if there's only going to be one page for all of them, it should rightfully be primarily about the poem, which spawned the two stage versions and (at least one) film.  --WesternActor
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Hi!  I've changed the date of the book publishing because my "Lost Classic" with the Art Spiegelman drawings was published in 1994.  Also, is it possible there was a third musical version or the dates were wrong?  I was taken to see it on a date in Sydney and my relationship was definitely busted up by 2000.  The version I saw only had two actors and an accompianist on piano and stuck strictly to the poem.  I guess it wasn't a musical per se, but there was music and singing! 203.217.57.33 12:24, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

message: Regarding the statement, "Both shows were thought to be highlights of the theater season": I saw the Broadway version. I thought it was terrific, but I learned that the reviews were unfavorable, and in any event the production closed in only two months. Isn't that inconsistent with a claim that a show on Broadway was thought to be a highlight of the season? —Largo Plazo 04:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reviews 

message: I have deleted the sections devoted to the musical versions, which were written before the musicals themselves had articles written about them. All this information can be found in those articles. This one should be limited to the original poem. ConoscoTutto 14:45, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletions

message: March's article indicates he was an editor of The New Yorker in 1925. I assume the job involved some creation of published copy. Bustter (talk) 01:31, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: first published work? Doubt it. Epic Poetry? Nope!

message: The whole damn article is without cites or references, but I am pretty sure that the quote  “The Wild Party?… It’s the book that made me want to be a writer” was specifically solicited by  Pantheon Books, the publishers of "Art Spiegelman, The Wild Party : The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March" and is included on the 1999 book's back cover. Making up some vague interview where the quote was generated is what the kids call "totally bogus" [in 1980]  Bustter (talk) 01:43, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Burroughs Quote