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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/5/12 at 11:36pm

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

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 12:30am

Patina Miller looks pretty great in her costume.

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 12:31am

I'm going on January 2nd. Bostix!

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 01:22am

i want this to transfer to broadway SO BAD

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 01:26am

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

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 03:38am

Just from that picture, it looks like a circus.

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 09:55am

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

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somethingwicked

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Posted: 12/6/12 at 10:15am

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

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 10:29am

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

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 10:36am

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."

Updated On: 12/6/12 at 10:36 AM

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:00am

would LOVE for this to transfer to Broadway.

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:11am

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...

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Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:13am

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

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:14am

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.

No good can possibly come from using this vast wasteland of error and deliberate deceit. You should get off of it and warn others away. You should make sure your children and grandchildren know what a corrupt and morally bankrupt institution it truly is.

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Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:15am

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

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CurtainPullDowner

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Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:37am

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.

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Posted: 12/6/12 at 12:02pm

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!

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 04:26pm

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.

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 04:45pm

"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

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Posted: 12/6/12 at 04:58pm

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

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 05:14pm

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.

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 05:21pm

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.

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 06:54pm

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.

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 06:59pm

Chet Walker? Ugh !

Forever the protégé , but never a star !

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 07:13pm

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.

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A.R.T Pippin
Posted: 12/6/12 at 07:31pm

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.