THE WILD PARTY

February 28, 2025 at 7:30pm

March 1, 2025 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm

at the Booth Playhouse at Blumenthal Arts

Co-Director: Kacy Connon

Co-Director and Music Director: Zachary Tarlton

Stage Manager: Andy Mueller

About the show:

Manhattan decadence in the 1920's provides the backdrop for this tough musical fable. Queenie, a vaudeville chorine, hosts the blow-out of the title with her vicious lover. The guests are a vivid collection of the unruly and the undone: Queenie's conniving rival; a cocaine-sniffing bisexual playboy; a washed-up boxer; a Black brother act; a diva of indeterminate age and infinite life experience; the fresh-off-the-farm ingénue whose naïveté quickly evaporates; a lesbian actress and her comatose girlfriend; and the bargain basement Valentino who catches Queenie's roving eye. The jazz- and gin-soaked party rages to a mounting sense of threat as artifice and illusion are stripped away. When midnight debauchery leads to tragedy at dawn, the high-flying characters land with a sobering thud, reminding us that no party lasts forever.

Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa

Book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe

Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March

The Wild Pary is presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com

Meet the Creative Team

  • Kacy Connon

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Kacy is most known as a performer- having acted in the Charlotte area for 12 years, including 4 QCC shows- but she is also the founder of Proxymoron Productions and directed both Puffs in 2022 and The Woman in Black in 2023.

  • Zachary Tarlton

    CO-DIRECTOR and MUSIC DIRECTOR

    Zachary is the creator and founder of Queen City Concerts. Before founding QCC, Zack could be found music directing shows for Theatre Charlotte (Spring Awakening, Avenue Q, Gypsy, The Addams Family, and others), Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte (Silence! The Musical and Fun Home), and Matthews Playhouse (West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, and others), along with playing piano in the orchestra for dozens more. Zack holds a Bachelor of Architecture from UNC Charlotte, a Master of Public Administration from UNC Pembroke and works full time as the Business Manager for Union County Water. Additionally, he serves on staff at Myers Park United Methodist Church as Music Associate for Church in the Round. He would like to thank his incredible husband, Jonathan, and his immense support network of family and friends for always believing in him and encouraging him to pursue his dreams!

  • Andy Mueller

    STAGE MANAGER

    Andy is excited to be joining his first QC Concerts production! A recent transplant to Charlotte with his wife and son, Andy most recently has been the Technical Director for the theater program at Rea Farms STEAM Academy in Charlotte and before that served as stage manager or technical director for various productions at Annapolis Children's Theater and Summer Garden Theater in Maryland. Thanks to Zack and his team for the opportunity to work with an amazing community of artists!