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'Wild Party' in Brooklyn

2000 was one of the worst years in musical theater. So bad, in fact, that the Tony for Best Musical went to "Contact," a dance play that was not a musical in any conceivable way. But it did feature one of the most bizarre incidents in musical history -- two separate musicals based on "The Wild Party," an obscure 1928 narrative poem in the public domain, premiering on top of each other.

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