A.R.T Pippin

[PlayItAgain]

Anyone go to the first preview of A.R.T's Pippin revival?

[somethingwicked]

Patina Miller looks pretty great in her costume.

[LuminousBeing]

I'm going on January 2nd. Bostix!

[PlayItAgain]

i want this to transfer to broadway SO BAD

[Scarywarhol]

She looks awesome! This is one show that could actually use some modernization/tinkering, so I'm fine with Paulus directing. Also think it's great to have a woman as the Player.

[RippedMan]

Just from that picture, it looks like a circus.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Put back Fosse's choreography. Now. Or I'm leaving.

[somethingwicked]

...you know they are using Fosse's choreography, right?

[amoni]

No they are using the Fosse style. They should do this in the park this summer, with tha castle lit up in the background.

[somethingwicked]

No, they are using the Fosse choreography.

From the press release:

"The American Repertory Theater's new production of the 1970's musical Pippin, which will debut later this season, will utilize the original Bob Fosse choreography recreated by Fosse protégé Chet Walker."

[ACL2006]

would LOVE for this to transfer to Broadway.

[timote316]

I'm seeing this tonight... very excited. Never seen PIPPIN before though, so I won't be able to go into too deep an analysis of differences, though...

[Auggie27]

Now it sounds promising. (I.e. without the Fosse choreography we'd have ... the book to make up for it?)

[JoeKv99]

That's not good enough Something Wicked: we want Fosse's corpse exhumed and reanimated and we want him to personally recreate his choreography. Or else.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

^ Or at least Ann Reinking and Nicole Fosse (who I hear has been working on a reading of her own production of the show).

[CurtainPullDowner]

The LEADING PLAYER is a Man.

That's how I feel, Patina is beautiful but she doesn't look frightning or scarey at all. And the show does not need any more sexual tension, it had plenty.

[KirbyCat]

RippedMan, it IS indeed a circus production. That's how they're going to be framing the show. In fact, a team member Les 7 doigts de la main (the creators of Traces and Sequence has created the acrobatics!

[raker]

I was excited to see this, and then the TV-movie version of the show from 1981 was on TV a few weeks ago and I saw it. I wish I hadn't. That was quite enough Pippin for me.

[Johnnycantdecide]

"Patina is beautiful but she doesn't look frightening or scarey at all."

I think it's safe to assue that we cannot assume anything about her performance from seeing one picture...

[CurtainPullDowner]

Yes, that's why I said "LOOK".
A Costume can be revealing too.

[SonofRobbieJ]

I know of at least two productions that have utilized female Leading Players (Paula Kelly in one, Chandra Wilson in another).

It's not like it's the newest idea under the sun.

[evic]

The Leading Player needs to ooze charm from every pore. He is only frightening in the last scene where he and the Players try to persuade Pippin into committing suicide. The great Paula Kelly portrayed the LP in an unsuccessful tour of the show in the 70's.

[EricMontreal22]

AwI love the televised Pippin though itis dated (and the full version that's leaked should be released)--but this should be pretty different. Obviously they can't use all of the Fosse choreography in a new concept--but maybe they'll do a lot like th eMenier Factory's video game version latyear.

[CukorLover]

Chet Walker? Ugh !

Forever the protégé , but never a star !

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

I've seen The Leading Player as a woman in multiple productions and it works extremely well if cast right. I think Miller will be great. She's the perfect mix of menacing and sexy.

[EricMontreal22]

Cukor, curious, what's your issue with Chet? I'm fine with him recreating Fosse stuff--just the way I am with Baayork Lee doing the same. I kinda wish Wayne Cilento would have stuck to that and never started thinking he could do his own work... (actually, I don't think much of Anne Reinking's choreography--when she doesn't use the Fosse vocabulary, either). Still, doesn't sound like something he should be criticized for.