Word: pippin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PIPPIN. Fabulous Bob Fosse fashioned this ace musical, in which the son of Charlemagne is regaled with firecracker dance numbers, sunshiny songs and smashing girls...
...Broadway's 34 theaters were dark last week. Of the 18 in business, only a handful-including those housing the musicals Pippin and Two Gentlemen of Verona and the plays Butley and That Championship Season -were taking in enough at the box office to make a profit for the shows and for themselves. (Broadway theaters do not charge rent from producers, but take 25% of the box office gross.) Just to rub things in, some 23 national touring companies of past seasons' hits like Jesus Christ Superstar and No, No, Nanette are outdrawing Broadway productions for the first...
...himself across the stage. He doesn't jump, he takes off like a small but carefully guided missile. If there should ever be another power failure on Broadway, Ben Vereen could light up the Imperial Theater with one or two snaps of his electric, ring-encrusted fingers. In Pippin, a new hit musical (TIME, Nov. 6) with many standout parts, Vereen's M.C. stands out from all the others...
...Grey's decadent host in Cabaret and vaudeville's old-fashioned song-and-dance man. His eyes dance, roll, and turn somersaults in an amused self-parody, but they are too bright to be decadent and too playful to be evil. He tries to tempt and waylay Pippin, the show's Candide-like hero, but it is obvious that he is having too much fun to take the devil business seriously. "It began as a very small part," says Pippin's Director Bob Fosse. "It was invented as it went along, and it kept growing with...
...spectacular staging of Pippin makes the production-credits list a roll call of honor. Tony Walton's scenery functions with elegant heraldic humor. Patricia Zipprodt's costumes are eye-blinking dazzlers, as are Jules Fisher's lighting effects. But the star of stars is Choreographer-Director Bob Fosse. This man has the sixth sense of dance, and he uses it with undeviating intelligence. Call him the Balanchine of the musical comedy stage and you will not be far off the mark. Fosse knows that at its core, the American musical celebrates collective energy. The force that Fosse...