NewsTix for Tony Award-Winning Broadway Revival of Pippin On Sale Through 2014Producers of the 2013 Tony Award-winning revival of Pippin announced June 11 that a new block of tickets has gone on sale, and seats are available through Jan. 5, 2014, at the Music Box Theatre.
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Michael Gioia
June 11, 2013
Patina Miller
Photo by Joan Marcus
The cirque-inspired revival took home Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Patina Miller), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Andrea Martin) and Best Direction of a Musical (Diane Paulus).
This season, Pippin also earned four Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical (Paulus), Outstanding Choreography (Chet Walker and Gypsy Snider) and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Martin). The production also leads the winners of the Outer Critics Circle Awards with seven wins including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical (Paulus), Outstanding Choreographer (Walker), Outstanding Lighting Design (Kenneth Posner), Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Miller), Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Terrence Mann), Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Martin).
The show received the Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical and two Fred and Adele Astaire Awards including Outstanding Choreographer of a Broadway Show (Walker) and Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show (Charlotte d'Amboise).
This new revival of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's dark and groovy coming-of-age musical premiered at the American Repertory Theater, where Paulus (Hair, Porgy and Bess) is artistic director, last fall. The staging incorporates circus choreography and acrobatics by Snider of the Montreal-based circus company Les 7 doigts de la main (7 Fingers). Broadway previews began March 23, prior to an official opening April 25, at the Music Box Theatre.
Pippin retains much of Bob Fosse's iconic moves thanks to Walker, who choreographs in Fosse's original style. Pippin has a score by Academy Award winner and Tony nominee Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell, "The Prince of Egypt") and a book by Tony nominee Hirson.
Read the Playbill.com feature for more on the cirque-inspired revival. British actor Matthew James Thomas, who is no stranger to high-flying stunts on Broadway, having starred as the Peter Parker alternate in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, takes on the title role in the modern classic. He is joined by Tony and Olivier Award nominee Patina Miller (Sister Act, Hair) as Leading Player, the show's singing, dancing and charming ringmaster, with Tony Award winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year) as Berthe, Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann (Les Miserables, The Scarlet Pimpernel) as King Charles, Tony Award nominee Charlotte d'Amboise (Chicago, Carrie) as Fastrada, Erik Altemus (The Fantasticks) as Lewis, Andrew Cekala (Marie Antoinette) as Theo and Rachel Bay Jones (Women on the Verge..., Hair) as Catherine.
The revival has new orchestrations by Larry Hochman and music supervision by Nadia Di Giallonardo. Charlie Alterman serves as musical director.
The new Broadway cast recording, co-produced by composer Schwartz and Kurt Deutsch, and executive-produced by Howard and Janet Kagan, is available digitally.
Pippin has set design by Tony Award-winning designer Scott Pask, costume design by Dominique Lemieux, lighting design by Tony Award-winning designer Kenneth Posner, sound design by Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm, illusions by Paul Kieve, fire effects by Chic Silber and flying effects by ZFX, Inc.
Pippin features such songs as "Corner of the Sky," "Magic To Do," "With You," "Glory," "No Time at All," "Morning Glow" and "Love Song."
Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin and Cast Offer Preview of Broadway's Pippin
Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin and Cast Offer Preview of Broadway's Pippin
The first-ever Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning musical Pippin, starring Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas and Andrea Martin, will begin Broadway previews March 23 at the Music Box Theatre. Read the Playbill.com story.
