Word: pippin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young Pippin still remains unfulfilled, undecided about his future. "Time is what I'm worrying about," he intimates. Then he discovers...
Suddenly confronted by one of the production's skimpily-clothed, sumptuous dancerettes who struts up to Pippin and pinches his nipple, Pippin giggles the red-faced giggle of a boy about to lose his innocence...
...roll dance featuring a scorching electric guitar lead, a funky organ and a pulsating and quickening beat. The dance typifies the effective manner in which Fosse handles the elements of sex and slang in his production. With gaining speed, the dancers throw one another around the stage, while throwing Pippin into breasts and behinds. In one part of the dance, the dancers lower Pippin on and off a series of female dancers who somersault on the stage floor to lie flat beneath him. Right in synch with the dancing, the music accelerates, then climaxes, leaving Pippin alone on the stage...
...much for sex; Pippin now seeks fulfillment in politics. When the oppression and tyranny of his father's rule is brought to his attention, he becomes outraged and swears to foment a revolution. With a jarring suddenness, Pippin stabs his father in the back and sings to a new day, turning the comedy into a melodrama for the moment...
...When Pippin the idealist realizes that running the Holy Roman Empire isn't quite as easy as he had originally imagined, he rues the murder. Again, the play refuses to take itself too seriously. "You got it," a character tells Pippin, and Charles gets up off the floor, pulling the dagger from his back...