Pippin Tour? — Page 25

The casting call went up last week-Pippin contracts run January-December of 2017, including sit-downs at both Prather dinner theaters, and the summer season touring in China.

They seem to have pulled the info from the audition about the Bridges Tour. Not sure if this means the tour was cancelled in the past week, or if they are doing auditions later.

It depends-If they are actually buying the tour set and costumes from the equity tour, I would assume that associates are going to be re-staging Paulus's direction. The casting call doesn't indicate director/choreographer, so it's going to be a bit of a waiting game.

The tour is COMPLETELY different from the scary trailer we saw a few months ago. They have the complete set from the Equity tour, all the costumes, Dianne Paulus' associate directed the tour and original choreographer Chett Walker choreographed the show. Should be very close to what we saw in 2013 and on the road.

Here's a video from the actual tour

The only thing that is bothering me is that Berthe is literally 25-30 years old



which just zaps... all of the magic of her trapeze act right out of the situation when you can tell the actress is absolutely not 60-70 like she's supposed to be.

But besides that I'm looking forward to seeing it on the 28th.

Updated On: 2/9/17 at 10:54 PM

Thanks for the link, this looks really good actually, aside from the young actor playing the King (I think Berthe passes fine for a young grandma). They're making justice to the original cast, would love to catch it around.

Is it shocking to see a non-eq with that kind of schedule? Isn't this the norm?

For a non-eq tour that looks pretty darn close to the original.

I did a 1 nighter type tour and it is rough. But most of the cast is fairly young and excited and in the grand scheme you're only working for 3 hours a day. The tech crew has it worst, but they usually get sleeper buses and then when the show is actually playing 1-3 nights they get some time off.

Saw this tour last night in Erie, PA, having previously seen its Equity counterpart in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. The production is in great shape, although not as perfectly 'polished' as the Equity version was (but I think that works, in a way, considering what this traveling troupe of performers is supposed to be).

Very strong cast. Housso Semon is the Leading Player with a commanding presence and solid voice. I didn't find myself distracted and worrying if the she'd be able to hit her notes, as I did when seeing Sasha Allen. Naysh Fox plays up Pippin's awkwardness well and has a clear voice. Savannah Sprinkle is quite a talent and working some magic as Catherine. Her quite layered performance made the largest impression on me. Really unfortunate that a cell phone went off during the silence before "I Guess I'll Miss The Man."

Since it was a one-nighter, they cut all aerial work, which was a huge disappointment since it was featured on the preview video a few posts up in this thread, and made me decide to attend. Berthe's partner for the trapeze act just held her in his arms and flipped her around a bit with a lot of hamming. This earned cheers and applause from the audience who for the most part probably didn't know what they were missing, but I thought the scene fell absolutely flat. I was concerned about the same thing happening to the staging of The Finale, but Pippin climbed up onto the railing of the on-stage balcony set piece instead of a trapeze, and that was effective enough.

Overall a nice way to experience this staging of the piece one more time.

Updated On: 2/28/17 at 10:45 AM

I saw the tour tonight in New Jersey, and this is one of the strongest non-equity tours I've seen the past few years. Prather, Apex Touring as they are trying to rebrand themselves, has put out a wonderful recreation of the Broadway revival, on the sets, with the costumes from the Equity Tour.

Stephen Schwartz was sitting a few rows in front of me, enjoying this cast performing his musical.

2 more shows in Jersey, tomorrow at 2 and 8. This is the tour's only New York metro area stop. Lots of good seats still available, stnj.org

Totally missed that in their tour routing. Sorry.

ACL2006 said: "Was supposed to go to the 2pm show, but had something come up last minute and had to give my ticket away. Maybe the tour will continue into 2018 and I'll get another chance to catch, possibly in Ten Bank or Morristown."

Not likely. Last I heard the plan was for the tour to go to Asia after this current leg.