Life of the Party is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
The first of the team's many collaborations, it is a musical adaptation of Barry Connor's farce The Patsy. It was written for a Detroit stock theatre company. The play was performed in October 1942 at the Wilson Theatre, Detroit, and had a run of nine weeks, directed by Russell Filmore and starring Dorothy Stone, Charles Collins, Charles Ruggles and Margaret Dumont. The musical was never staged on Broadway.[1] [2]