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...PIPPIN Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Book by ROGER O. HIRSON...
...phalanx of Marine Corps MPs would not be able to keep audiences away from Pippin. Does this mean that it is one of the pinnacles of the art of musical comedy? Hardly. What Pippin possesses is splendiferous theatricality, the kick of a lightning bolt and a passionate professional knack for being entertaining. The show satisfies the popular non-platonic ideal of a US musical. It has the musk of sexuality, firecracker dance numbers, sunshiny songs and smashing girls that the gods of Olympus might ogle...
...time is A.D. 780, when Charlemagne was building an empire, but the behavior and attitudes are very much 1972. Pippin (actually Pepin) Charlemagne's son, is a bewildered young medieval hippie with what we used to call big ideas. He wants to find some all-embracing purpose that will give his life a deep sense of fulfillment...
...Pippin said that, although he does not use his education directly, the background of a liberal education "definitely helps a lot in my police work...
...Pippin is continuing his reading in German history and hopes to pick up some psychology courses in addition to the 3 law enforcement courses he is now taking Northeastern...