The most bizarre event of the New York theater season is the coming of two separate shows based on, of all things, a narrative poem from the 1920s, Joseph Moncure March's "The Wild Party." Sensational and shocking in 1928, the book was banned in Boston for its bawdy story of sex, drugs and violence among the beautiful and damned of the jazz age. March (who was the first managing editor of The New Yorker) wrote his poem in a hurtling rush of rhythm and rhyme that raised doggerel to a verbal equivalent of jazz syncopation. William S. Burroughs said: "It's the book that made me want to be a writer." The first "Wild Party" to open comes from the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club, directed by Gabriel Barre. The second (opening April 13) is a Broadway show coproduced by the Public Theater and movie hon-cho Scott Rudin, directed by George C. Wolfe ("Angels in America"). It has a bigger budget ($5 million) and bigger names like Mandy Patinkin and Eartha Kitt. Which will have the bigger impact remains to be seen-and heard.
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机译：纽约剧院季最离奇的事件是两场单独的演出的来临，这些演出完全基于1920年代的叙事诗，约瑟夫·蒙库尔·马奇（Joseph Moncure March）的“野党”。 1928年，这本书引起轰动，令人震惊，在波士顿被禁止发行，原因是该小说在爵士时代美丽而受诅咒的性，毒品和暴力行为中表现出肮脏的故事。 March（他是《纽约客》的第一位总编辑）用激昂的节奏和韵律写下了他的诗，这使Doggerel在口语上等同于爵士乐的旋律。威廉·伯劳斯（William S. Burroughs）说：“正是这本书使我想成为一名作家。”由Gabriel Barre导演的百老汇曼哈顿剧院俱乐部开幕的第一个“狂野派对”。第二部（4月13日开幕）是百老汇演出，由公共剧院和电影本町乔·斯科特·鲁丁共同执导，导演乔治·沃尔夫（“美国天使”）。它有更大的预算（500万美元），还有像曼迪·帕丁金和Eartha Kitt这样的大公司。将会产生更大影响的还有待观察。
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