Pippin
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 7, 2011
Closed Feb 25, 2012
Opened Dec 7, 2011
Closed Feb 25, 2012
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http://www.menierchocolatefactory.com
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Pippin, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, opened on Broadway in 1972, won 5 Tony Awards and ran for just under 5 years. The Broadway production was mounted in the West End in 1973. Director and choreographer Mitch Sebastian leads the creative team for this high-concept revival incorporating Fosse's original Tony Award-winning choreography. Timothy Bird returns to the Chocolate Factory for the first time since winning the Olivier Award for Sunday in the Park with George to design the set and projections. Lighting design is by Tony Award winner (for Chicago) Ken Billington, costume design by Jean-Marc Puissant, orchestrations and music supervision by Simon Lee and sound design by Gareth Owen.
This is a colourful, imaginative and darkly humorous coming-of-age story. Pippin, heir to the throne of Charlemagne, is searching for beauty, glory, fame and magic but in doing so has to come to grips with lust, sex, war, politics and religion.
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Mitch Sebastian's production of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's problematic 1972 Broadway musical,
Pippin, now at the Menier Chocolate Factory, is rather ham-strung by its own high concept as a role-player video game in which the action has been broken down into a series of "levels." Moreover, despite the show's 21st -century gimmick, there's something decidedly retro about the enterprise.
The audience enters the performance space through an area decked out as a bedroom -- with its walls plastered with posters of Tron and Transformers, in which a young man (Harry Hepple) sits with his eyes fixed to his computer screen. The main auditorium has been transformed into a raw concrete [...]