Pippin Tour? — Page 16

I am assuming that Sabrina is coming back to the tour after their Playhouse Square stint being thats Molly Tynes final stop.

So glad I got to see the original cast multiple times and got to be on the cast recording. I have loved this show for many years. Happy some of you got to see MJT and the wonderful Andrea Martin.

Sabrina Harper played Roxie in Switzerland.

According to her website, she's from California and went to universityl in Germany, resulting in a lot of European gigs.

Evict: you ask about road grosses.. Unsure how the tour is playing everywhere, but here in Cleveland (where it opened Tuesday), it's an expected sellout during its two week run, in a 2,800 seat house.

Oh - and Sasha apparently was out tonight... The trend continues..

I think she returns next week.

Wow, you people remarking on Allen's backphrasing of "Magic to Do" are not kidding. The rhythm is way off and you can't understand the words. I wonder if Stephen Schwartz knows what she's doing to his song?

Yea I don't understand why she does a LONG riff in the beginning of Magic to do with the line "join us come and waste an hour or two...." she doesn't have a lot to do with the Fosse dancing at least not as much as Patina, Ciara and Carly. I really want to know what the Weissler's think of this.

Updated On: 2/19/15 at 11:09 PM

is there any audio out there of Allen for any of the numbers?? Would love to hear her!

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I have to disagree. Pippin has sexual innuendos, cursing, an implied onstage orgy, and some violence. I'd let a 13 year old see it, but even that's pushing it. Kinky Boots is WAY more appropriate. I love Pippin, but if I were the adult in the situation, I would feel very awkward watching with a 10 year old, and then having to explain what the cage was all about. The worst thing in Kinky Boots is a few mild innuendos and the fact that it's about drag queens (that's a big deal for some, but not for others). I would take them to see Kinky Boots.

Just go to tumblr and type her name it. Audio clips will come up.

"Pippin has sexual innuendos, cursing, an implied onstage orgy, and some violence. I'd let a 13 year old see it, but even that's pushing it. Kinky Boots is WAY more appropriate."

Yeah, because Kinky Boots only has multiple acts of onstage violence including a character being knocked unconscious in a fistfight and an on stage boxing match, a high level of sexual innuendo ("Mommy what do they mean the sex is in the heel... is someone going to have sex?") and a factory worker trying to seduce her boss no less, and get him to be unfaithful to his fiancé.

See, you can make almost any show sound inappropriate. As far as Pippin is concerned, letting a 13 year old see it is pushing it, and yet a 9 year old and a 12 year old actually performed in the show on Broadway as Theo. OMG, shouldn't someone be calling child protective services about that?

In reality, both shows are probably fine if you have a willingness to talk about and answer questions afterwards especially if you see Kinky Boots and this is their first exposure to Drag Queens. Maybe describe the scenes that might be questionable beforehand and get their reaction to it. If anything about Pippin, the scene with fire at the end might be the most "scary" or disconcerting for a 10 year old. A lot depends on the maturity of the child as well as their age. These days, kids, even 10 year olds see stuff that has as much violence and sexual innuendo as anything in either of these two shows on MTV and the Kardashians and are perhaps less prone to being shocked than most adults give them credit for.

Updated On: 2/20/15 at 02:23 AM

Saw the production last weekend in Cleveland (after having seen the revival OBC in NYC). Overall, the production was near-identical, physically to the Broadway version... and I've never heard such a pumped up sound system in my life - both orchestra and vocals... (not in a bad way...) - so the sound made certain the audience was into the show.

I enjoyed it - especially a wonderful Rubinstein (preferred to Mann), an appealing Molly Tynes (still on for Fastrada), the old pro Priscilla Lopez (a solid Berthe... but hard to get close to Andrea Martin...) The surprise was Kristine Reese as Catherine... (I had, politely - not exactly taken to the performance of the original revival actress in this role... I know many loved her... just didn't resonate with me...) - wonderful... great voice. Nice presence. Nice take.

Sam Lips as Pippin seemed college-trained to the hilt, with not an ounce of his own personality... And - strangely - Sasha Allen was on that evening (she missed several perfs in CLE....) - but the lobby "at this performance" board - hadn't been changed from matinee - so all along I thought I was seeing the understudy because the board said she was not on... Only after show did I see picks of understudy and realize that couldn't have been her and was Sasha. I'm hardly a Patina fan - but Sasha sang it well - but moved awkwardly... and faded a bit into background, I thought.