Pipe Dream
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 28, 2012
Closed Apr 1, 2012
Opened Mar 28, 2012
Closed Apr 1, 2012
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Outcasts yearning for a better life populate the bordellos and flophouses of a 1950s California seaside town in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, based on John Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thursday. Pipe Dream opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 30, 1955 and ran for 246 performances. It was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Pipe Dream has not been seen on the American stage in more than two decades, owing to a technicality involving the underlying rights. This Rodgers and Hammerstein rarity includes "All at Once You Love Her," "The Next Time It Happens" and the wistful ballad "Everybody's Got a Home but Me."
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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Worthwhile evening of fun, if minor Rogers & Hammerstein
There are echoes or prehaps foreshadowings of typical Rogers and Hammerstein melodies in some of the songs of Pipe Dream, and the always lovely "And All at Once you Love Her." Add to that a couple of rousing saloon-ensemble melodies and you've got a score much, much better than the slender book on which it hangs. You want to like these people--the road girl turned not-too-successful whore, the madam with the heart of gold, the "marine biologist" with the University of Chicago PhD who might have opened a major oceanographic institute but instead goofs around pretty much all day on a level not much different from L'il Abner, and various and sundry inhabitants of a Monterrey flophouse and whorehouse--but they're kind of wasting their lives, and they know it and so do you. It's minor Rogers & Hammerstein, but a major evening of fun. Leslie Uggams, whom we all remember as the little girl on Laurence Welk and Sing Along with Mitch and the Ed Sullivan show--is all grown up and sings up a storm, ably aided by Tom Wopat and company. By all means, go and enjoy yourself. It's the kind of show Encores, one of New York City's major achievements in the popular arts, was made to showcase.
Reviewed by cwpnewpaltz
on Thursday, Mar 29th, 2012
Worthwhile evening of fun, if minor Rogers & Hammerstein
There are echoes or prehaps foreshadowings of typical Rogers and Hammerstein melodies in some of the songs of Pipe Dream, and the always lovely "And All at Once you Love Her." Add to that a couple of rousing saloon-ensemble melodies and you've got a score much, much better than the slender book on which it hangs. You want to like these people--the road girl turned not-too-successful whore, the madam with the heart of gold, the "marine biologist" with the University of Chicago PhD who might have opened a major oceanographic institute but instead goofs around pretty much all day on a level not much different from L'il Abner, and various and sundry inhabitants of a Monterrey flophouse and whorehouse--but they're kind of wasting their lives, and they know it and so do you. It's minor Rogers & Hammerstein, but a major evening of fun. Leslie Uggams, whom we all remember as the little girl on Laurence Welk and Sing Along with Mitch and the Ed Sullivan show--is all grown up and sings up a storm, ably aided by Tom Wopat and company. By all means, go and enjoy yourself. It's the kind of show Encores, one of New York City's major achievements in the popular arts, was made to showcase.
Reviewed by cwpnewpaltz
on Thursday, Mar 29th, 2012
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The legendary team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II worked outside of what would generally be considered their artistic comfort zone in the rarely-staged 1955 musical Pipe Dream, now being presented by Encores! at New York City Center.
While the work is often puzzlingly experimental, at least by these writers' standards, director Mark Bruni has given the piece a colorful, detail-filled staging, which benefits from some terrific dances from choreographer Kelli Barclay, and the work of a bevy of talented performers, all of which lend the show considerable charm.
Based on John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, the sprawling show takes audiences into the heart of the seami[...]