He also wrote scripts for State Department documentaries and was a feature writer for The New York Times Magazine. He later moved to Hollywood to write screenplays. He was managing editor for The New Yorker in the 1920s, and left the magazine to pursue verse writing ('The Wild Party' and 'The Set Up' are his best-known pieces). March was a poet, journalist and screenwriter who was a protégé of Robert Frost. The poem was the basis for the 1975 James Ivory film of the same name. In it, showgirl Queenie and her lover, Burrs, throw a party with a guest list including seedy show folk, gangsters and playboys. The poem, which depicted the underbelly of the Roaring Twenties, was published in 1928 and became a scandalous cult favorite. The SPT Equity company has two 200-seat spaces, the Mead and the Milton, within its building on P Street at 14th. The Wild Party will be performed in a third-floor studio, a 50-seat space, at The Studio Theatre complex.

Secondstage artistic director Keith Alan Baker directs the new piece, Robert Biedermann choreographs. 8, is a 'built' piece in which the poem is combined with period song, dance and vaudeville acts. producing organization on the bandwagon of hosting a stage version of The Wild Party, Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem about a debauched Jazz Age party.īut unlike the Wild Party musicals expected at the Public Theater and Manhattan Theater Club in 1999-2000, the Studio Theatre's Secondstage version, beginning previews July 15, opening July 18 and continuing to Aug. The Studio Theatre in Washington DC is the third U.S.

The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March