Voice actors: Ron Obregon, Larry Reed, Wendy Morton, Diana Alden Lang, Anne Goldmann, Michael Lopez, Carol Bach-y-Rita, Dennis Matthews. Edited from multiple live performances in 1995-1996. Based on the poem: The wild party / by Joseph Moncure March. The filmed play itself is under the "Original performance" option in the "Extras" menu. "Play movie" leads to the behind-the-scenes featurette. Special features (33 min.): "The wild party : behind the scenes" featurette (16 min.); concert reading of the poem by Larry Reed & Bruce Morton (July 2006, 12 min.); "Puppet box" gallery (4 min.); masks (1 min.).
Summary:
"A jazz shadow theater piece based on the beat poem [The wild party] by Joseph Moncure March, with an original jazz score composed by Bruce Forman ... [Therein,] two vaudeville performers fight, make up, throw a party, and flirt with danger"--Container.
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