Word: pippin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FRESH OUT OF the University of Padda, Pippin faces the same problem many liberal arts graduates face every year: how to make of life a Meaningful Experience. Unlike the rest of us, Pippin is blessed with one great advantage: He's the eldest progeny of Charlemagne, the Holy Roman emperor, a pedigree that even Fair Harvard's greatest sons could never match. But being first in line for the sucession is somehow not enough for Pippin. He needs to find, as he sings in the beginning, his Corner...
...Holy Roman Empire may have been much bigger than Long Island, but you wouldn't think so after seeing the musical Pippin (Book by Roger O. Hirson, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz), now enjoying a lively and entertaining production at Dunster House. A rather curious musical, it is history deflated to suburban proportions, via Broadway. Pippin (Justin Richardson) is an average upper-middle class college overachiever; his dad. Charlemagne (John D. Langdon), a gruff executive type; Fastrada (Ann Henry), his mother, a matron right out of the Five Towns area; and Lewis (Mark Morland), his younger brother, the ancient...
...world where Harvard Law School hasn't been invented yet, and Success means Sucession. Pippin sets out to find true fulfillment, charging into War, sliding into Flesh, plotting Revolution, and finally finding the answer to his burning question smouldering in The Hearth--the simple life of the family, with a widow Catherine (Susan Power...
...their seats back home, also seemed to hit just the right note with the youngsters. Every time Vereen made a barnyard-animal sound, the children squealed with delight. Vereen-who played Chicken George in TV's Roots and is a song-and-dance veteran of Broadway (Pippin)-was pleased with his performance, but admitted to feeling "a bit shaky." Said he: "I was afraid of being too emotional and teary-eyed...
...will become so altruistic in their desire to accommodate popular tastes that they will work exclusively in the styles of former masters. There can be only one Picasso; if, say, a whole new generation of artists were to work in his style, it would hardly guarantee better paintings. Likewise, Pippin and the other "concept musicals" of the '70s proved that the Rodgers and Hammerstein storybook musical is a creature of the past, an observation symbolically confirmed by Richard Rodgers' recent death. Experimentation must proceed, but it must always be with an eye toward quality. Fortunately, the '70s provided us with...