Pippin Tour?

[trpguyy]

Martin Short - and many others, including Steve Martin - was there as a guest of Andrea Martin. LOTS of Martins last night!

[Wicked Fanatic]

Sasha Allen was out tonight with Lisa Karlin on as the Leading Player.

[Alessio2]

How was her understudy??

[JoseLee_]

Has there been a white Leading Player on Broadway since the understudy on the tour is.. just curious?

[pepin3]

Molly Tynes was a LP understudy and Lara Seibert-Young is the current understudy for Leading Player on Broadway (other than Ariana Debose) Neither have gone on, though.

[DAME]

Here is the LA times review. As I said before if you are in the LA area and you miss this.. you are a fool.

Also.. someone posted that Sasha Allen was out last night. Interesting since she posted a picture of herself on her instagram in full getup just as she was ready to go on. Did something happen to her on her way from the dressing room to the stage?




http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-pippin-hollywood-pantages-review-20141024-column.html

[Starship]

Wish I could've been at the premiere in LA on Tuesday!! So many talented people in the audience (Pentatonix, Steve Martin, etc.)

[lotiloti]

The reason he went blonde.Watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOyOhBCWQfs

[ChairinMain]

Huh. I did NOT realize he was British.

[Wicked Fanatic]

"How was her understudy??"

I didn't see her, but one of my friends did and her comments when I asked how she was were...
"I'm always really picky about Leading Player vocals so she wasn't always spot on but nothing distracting or irritating. Acting and acro-wise she was great."

[v_sawyer]

I'm curious as to who is going to be playing Pippin after the LA stop. I'm not sure if it means anything but Kyle Selig removed Pippin from his twitter bio and we haven't gotten any news on it.

[Wicked Fanatic]

^
According to the program at SCFTA it's Kyle Dean Massey.

http://www.scfta.org/home/Events/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1578

[HorseTears]

Anyone know how many rows of the orchestra the front of the mezzanine hangs over? I haven't been to the Pantages in ages and can't remember.

[theaternut]

It is fine. The very front of the mezzanine is better than any of the double letter rear orchestra seats. But stick to the very front of the Mezzanine.

[ethan231h]

Not surprised with KDM doing now the rest of the tour.

[ACL2006]

told you Selig was fired.

[lovebwy]

According to a news story here he was put on vocal rest by his doctor.

[Fantod]

Very well, people don't want to see it. I just wrote it because it was fun.

[FishermanBob]

"Shameless plug for my blog:"


I never doubted your age but I would seriously encourage you to reconsider whether you have the maturity and breadth and depth of experience as a theatergoer to place yourself in a position of giving advice to others as a critic, underage or not. You've been here just 3 weeks and are trying so hard to come across as an expert on every topic in every thread when you might want to consider just spending a little time trying to just learn and grow your knowledge from people who have been going to the theater for 25+ years. Read everyone else's opinion on the Pippin tour in this thread and then reread your initial post on it and your "review" and ask yourself whether you just missed something or whether everyone else is completely wrong. And one other thing, when you pull your "what can I do to make you love me" line straight out of Brantley's review without attribution, it's considered plagiarism.

[lovebwy]

"Fosse’s singularly unique choreography has been carefully recreated"

Not true. Parts of it had the flavor of Fosse but it was different choreography.

[Fantod]

In regards to the final line: crap, I remember seeing that phrase in regards to Pippin somewhere, and the line just stuck with me. I have deleted it because I have no interest in being sued or whatever. I also have removed the link from my original post because I realize that I only write reviews because I like to get my opinions down on "paper" to properly formulate them. I don't think that having less experience in seeing theatre makes me less able to give an opinion, though, and I never claim to be more experienced at reviewing theatre than anybody else. I have seen several great musicals and I just didn't think Pippin was one of them, but it's all just opinions. I'm just starting out and thought it was fun to have a blog, never meant to offend anyone. I also apologize if my other posts seem obnoxious. I just write my opinions on everything that I have an opinion about, though I supposed I should be writing them on this board more as personal reactions rather than fact. Sorry if anything I posted angered you.

EDIT: I also fixed the line about Fosse choreography, but I wrote that line originally because I heard on an episode of theatre talk that the choreography had been 100% recreated from the original, but I guess whoever said it was wrong.

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

The choreography in the Manson Trio is 100% recreated from the original. The playbill and associated documents from the show state that Fosse choreographed that section.

That being said, Chet Walker was a Fosse dancer and is highly skilled in "the style of Fosse," which was a phrase used in some reviews of this production.

[lovebwy]

The Manson Trio (that it's called that freaks me out!) is similar, but different. If you watch the famous Pippin commercial from 1972 or the 1981 video and compare it to the revival's Letterman appearance there are differences. Whereas in any professional production of West Side Story the Dance at the Gym has identical choreography when compared to the movie.

In any case, our budding young Addison Dewitt claimed the choreography in the entire show was 100% Fosse, and we know that isn't that case.

[Fantod]

Lovebwy, I already fixed that statement in my review, and I never meant to pass myself off as some amazing critic, I just like writing reviews for shows that I go see, and that was just what I thought of Pippin. I have removed the link because I realize that this is not the best place to share that kind of thing.

[lovebwy]

Fantod, I hope you didn't remove the link on my account. I was just correcting some info. May I ask how old you are?

I would never discourage anyone from writing about anything. Though I do disagree with your point of view in the case of Pippin, I'm always interested to see what people from various walks of life think about movies, television and theater that I enjoy.

Keep at it, but as the previous poster suggested, start reading other reviewers, educate yourself on the history of theater and Broadway. You'll get better and better.

[Fantod]

I am 16 (which I have already proven on the off-topic board), but I am trying to get better and better at writing reviews as I am possibly considering as a career option when I get older, but who knows.