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Pippin, 2013

Opened April 25, 2013

Closed January 4, 2015

709 performances

Music Box Theatre

Revival

Broadway

Pippin
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Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 30th longest run.

Other stagings of Pippin 2 more

1972
Imperial TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Bob Fosse
1,944 performances

Who was in it57 named

Gregory Arsenal
Lolita Costet
Andrew Fitch
Orion Griffiths
Viktoria Grimmy
Olga Karmansky
Bethany Moore
Yannick Thomas
Molly Tynes
Anthony Wayne
Ashton Woerz
Kristin Allen
Kevin Armour
Sascha Bachmann
Mackenzie Bell
Dmitrious Bistrevsky
Fernando Dudka
Mirela Golinska Roche
Michelle K Guy
Lauren Joy Herley
Carly Hughes
Kelsey Jamieson
Preston Jamieson
Nael Jammal
Nicolas Jelmoni
Kai Johnson Peady
Kenneth Lindemann
Richard Maguire
Luke Kolbe Mannikus
Kyle Dean Massey
Aidan O Shea
Charlotte O Sullivan
Annie Potts
Ciara Renee
Masha Terentieva
Eli Tokash
Kristen Beth Williams
Syndee Winters
Florian Zumkehr

Creative team

Director
Diane Paulus
Choreographer
Chet Walker

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

2013
Pippin
Pippin Ghostlight Records 8-4473, released July 9, 2013
United States

4 more exist for other runs of this show: see Pippin for all of them.

Around this production

Pippin is a 1972 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto. The musical uses the premise of a mysterious performance troupe, led by the Leading Player, to tell the story of Pippin, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance. The fourth wall is broken numerous times during most traditional productions. The protagonist, Pippin, and his father, Charlemagne, are characters derived from two historical figures of the early Middle Ages, though the plot is fictional and presents no historical accuracy regarding either. The show was partially financed by Motow…

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