Word: pippins
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...THIS INTERPLAY of tension and relief that saves Pippin time after time just after the viewer thinks the players have gone too far. The magic of Pippin is that--while confronting you with war, sex, disillusionment, love and politics--the play has the perspective to remind its audience that, "after all, this is only a musical comedy...
Sure enough, the staid and stodgy crowd sang along--coat-and-tied respectables and young hipsters alike. The kind of involvement and interest Pippin demands from its audience is a credit to the play's success...
...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...