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Pippin | Year: 1981 Classification: Musical Directed: - David Sheehan its...interesting... i just recently fell in love with the musical pippin, and after seeing it live decided to buy the video. and boy was i surprised...the only two performers that i liked were ben vereen (ASTOUNDING!) and chita rivera. fosse's choreography was great, as always, but his direction decisions really irked me. for example, he cut the pippin/theo duck sequence. this sequence established a closeness between pippin and theo, and it had some great lines :o). he also cut catherine's song "i guess i'll miss the man," which displays catherine's feelings for pippin! and the video itself is pretty bad quality too, bad sound mostly. The cast is better than the CD That's right! I said it! John Rubinstein's voice is not strong enough to play Pippin. He sounds like Henry Gibson singing...anyone? Henry Gibson? "Laugh-In"? He was the voice of Wilbur in "Charlotte's Web?" No one? Okay, moving on...William Katt however not only sings "Corner of the Sky" he relishes it. He savors every note, and that's the way it must be sung. You wouldn't sing "Do You Hear the People Sing" unless you can handle it and you shouldn't sing "Corner" without some serious chops....or props...or snaps, or whatever the hell else it is that means "talent, abilities." I also think that Ben Vereen does better live than in the studio. That's right, I think Ben Vereen gave a better performance than Ben Vereen! Not even Ben Vereen could've matched Ben Vereen as a...no, this is silly. Look, the CD's fine, but the movie's better. The arrangements, the performances, and the fact that they cut my least favorite song "I Guess I'll Miss the Man." Despite the quality a MUST have I have been reading the many good and bad reviews and thought I should add something. I am an expert on Bob Fosse and his work. This particular production was pulled together by Kathryn Doby (Bobby's assistant for years). It was rather hasty in putting together as it was meant for a television broadcast. In the process of setting the time format for television many cuts were made to the original script, which unfortunetly are now not available. What is important about this version is it allows the closest view of Bobby's original work that we may ever have. Bob worked on this show while at great odds of the composer (Schwartz), to the point of having him barred from rehersals. It is amazing the show ever made it to where it got. The fact that we can still see the original art that was the choreography of Bobby, is the ONLY reason that this video should be in your collection. He won the Tony award for his work on this show (he also won the oscar for Cabaret and the Emmy for Liza with a Z this same year, the ONLY director to EVER do that) Enjoy! Buy Pippin at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Pippin Search with the Priority Search Engine on Pippin This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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