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Title: One of the most powerful and brilliant scores in years!
Review: When I saw The Wild Party during its sadly short Broadway run, I was absolutely blown away by the entire experience. This CD somehow manages to bring the theatre experience into your home in a few CDs have been able to do. Michael John LaChiusa's music is absolutely perfect, covering the traditional Broadway idiom while also sounding perfectly within the languages of the late 1920s, jazz, and vaudeville. The impeccable cast--led by Toni Collette, Mandy Patinkin (in one of his best vocal performances to date), and Eartha Kitt--is not needed, but only enhances an already truly unique and powerful score. The music is intense and engrossing, so you may need to listen to it more than once in order to really "hear" every thing. But whatever you do, don't pass this CD by--it should be a part of every Broadway lover's CD collection.
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