Pippin Ending

[pajamaboy]

Posted: 11/30/03 at 5:40pm

how important, in your opinion, is the ending to PIPPIN? i'm performing in it and my director has decided to change the ending where the set stays onstage, the leading player walks off and everyone sings "Corner of the Sky" as the finale. its different but it doesn't feel like "Pippin" to me. what's your imput on this?

PJboi

[sweeedboy]

Posted: 11/30/03 at 7:15pm

well its actually illeagle for him to do this and if the company who owns the rights found out they would be mighty peeved... While the ending is a bit odd it is necessary as the characters are really just actors playing the parts. I don't know the show terribly well and i know there is soem deep meaning, but whatever. I think it is atrocious that your director is changing the show as it is really not his work and he is defimating the creator's vision for the show. Just my two cents

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/30/03 at 8:07pm

Who knows, that show has had so many damn endings, it could have been one that Schwartz wrote. I did the "Trapped, but happy" ending, but I know of another one where Katherine's son sings "Rivers belong where they can ramble/eagles belong where they can fly...." and the whole company begins to sing "Join us/join us...." That one ends with the Leading Player extending his hand to the boy.

I think there are three or four, as a matter of fact.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 11/30/03 at 8:45pm

Would this PIPPIN performance happen to be one in NC that I know of?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 11/30/03 at 10:31pm

I think it's appalling and defeats the whole intention of the show.

[A_Boy_From_Oz]

Posted: 11/30/03 at 11:25pm

I was in a production that did the ending that involved Katherine's son being lured back by the leading player. I do believe that the "Trapped, but happy" ending works much better IMHO.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/30/03 at 11:37pm

I think the "Trapped but happy" ending is horrendous. The show disintegrates rather than deconstructs.