New Pippin Promo

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 8:48pm

Your thoughts? I actually didn't like it much. It could have been better, I think.
New Pippin Promo

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 8:54pm

Did Ciara Renee get a new wig?

[ethan231h]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 8:57pm

thats not Ciara that is her understudy Gabrielle McLinton in the video! I wonder why they did that?

[ShakinBaconGirl]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 9:13pm

As a big fan of PIPPIN....that was pretty awful.

[Up In One]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 9:13pm

That has got to be one if the worst commercials I've ever seen. Maybe that's on purpose? Such a classy show to get involved in something so cheesy. What are they even trying to say with that Winter biz? Guess they couldn't afford the best advertising house. Oy.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 9:22pm

I didn't enjoy it either. Poorly made & pointless. And that is indeed Gabby as LP.

[ethan231h]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 9:32pm

I can't see this add on tv, they didn't even mention it won best musical revival

[Queen of the Night]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 9:41pm

I agree. This was the best they could do? The crowd's "acting" was awful. The footage of the show is old and recycled. The opening of the commercial is too long and boring and doesn't get to the point at all. This is supposed to be exciting and enticing audiences to come see this show. This commercial lost my interest in the first three seconds. Very amateurish. Hope the producers didn't pay too much for this ad....

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:09pm

Just weird. Bizarre they used Gabrielle McClinton as the focal point and all the clips of the show were with the old cast. They have so many "wow" moments in the show to work with. Just surprised that's what they thought would best sell the show.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:13pm

Well, that was unfortunate.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:13pm

Awful! It belongs on cable access reruns of The Robin Byrd Show.

[brdway411]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:14pm

So glad I did not answer the Twitter ad for this when they were looking for fans to be a part of the commercial. Much like the show its self these days, that ad has no magic.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:22pm

Wow that was so....terribly awkward. It doesn't even show the new leads!

[hundredsofhats]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:24pm

The ad shows people stuck in their drab colorless lives, and are beckoned to the theater by a rather circus-like announcer. They're barely able to muster the energy to drag themselves through the doors, but when they do, the world transforms into the spectacular carnival that is Pippin. The people leave, totally reinvigorated and re-energized.

[brdway411]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:27pm

The last time I left the show I wanted my money back. It looked so sloppy and had lost it's original magic. IMHO.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:27pm

So confused by that ad.

[hundredsofhats]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:42pm

[The last time I left the show I wanted my money back. It looked so sloppy and had lost it's original magic. IMHO.]

A non-magical Pippin? NOoooooo! : (

The ad did the black-and-white (daily life) to color (carnival) thing, it reminds me of an apolitical version of the same effect in the TV mini-series of the novel Master and Margarita. (which Andrew Lloyd Webber wanted to make into a musical but wisely abandoned that idea). And maybe the ad wasn't too effective, a lot more could have been done to show malaise in New York City that Pippin would cure, it seems.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:46pm

You thought the problem with the ad was that people didn't understand it, hundredsofhats?

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:51pm

"The ad shows people stuck in their drab colorless lives, and are beckoned to the theater by a rather circus-like announcer. They're barely able to muster the energy to drag themselves through the doors, but when they do, the world transforms into the spectacular carnival that is Pippin. The people leave, totally reinvigorated and re-energized."

Yeah, no we get it. It's a terrible ad.

[hundredsofhats]

Posted: 5/6/14 at 11:52pm

^

No, oO That was just my thoughts on the ad, it seemed that other people had other problems with it like the new cast not being shown or not mentioning an award it won. I initially thought the ad was good but if it was trying to convey a specific idea, then it was kind of clunky.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/7/14 at 12:03am

Not for nothing but it's rather circus-unlike announcer. It's a newsreel narrator. Exactly like an old timey newsreel narrator.

[hundredsofhats]

Posted: 5/7/14 at 12:06am

^

Yep, my bad! News, not circus! Words fail! : (

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/7/14 at 12:24am

Aww, not bad, kinda sweet, actually. Who else but old farts know what a newsreel is?

[juice23]

Posted: 5/7/14 at 12:37am

the beginning reminded me of all the newsreels in a league of their own. "Marla hooch.... what a hitter!"

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/7/14 at 12:55am

But done on an app by an amateur.