Word: leitmotivs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trolls are quite droll. They are dressed in inky black frock coats and robes, their heads are chalk-white and they sport Miss Piggy snouts. The Troll King (Frederick Neumann) immediately recognizes Peer as a closet troll and lays down the primal law of trolldom, which is the leitmotiv of the entire play. As rendered in Rolf Fjelde's lyrical English versification, it goes...
...Short reviews offer mostly glib opinion with scant analysis; the writers, moreover, apparently believe that if one metaphor per sentence is good, several are better, even if contradictory. A rambling rumination on "an American loss of nerve" by former New York Times Critic John Leonard has, aptly, a running leitmotiv of Japanese fog. In other articles, the language is occasionally odd, opaque, even incorrect...
...numbers like "War is a Science." "Simple Joys," or "On the Right Track," the music sparkles, the lyrics are clever, and the staging is amusingly effective. It's when it strives for simplicity and sincerity that Pippin falls a little short. Songs like "Corner of the Sky" the leitmotiv for the whole musical, are just a little bland...