Perhaps it is apt, then, that the musical itself rarely lives up to our mental ideal of it. How do you define the functions of the narrator and players, who frame and interact with the central story?
I want to foreground these problems with the show itself because Doma Theater Company already has the odds against them in choosing to produce Pippin. Meanwhile, Michael Mullen and Brandy A. In short, the production is trying too hard to do too much. Actors offer exaggerated performances — yet the music often redeems the show.
The Tony Frankel controversy had prepared me. In moments, this musical genuinely engaged me. Act II surprised me with a much more coherent throughline, and elements of this production — such as the foregrounding of sexuality — set my mind to potential alternative stagings. After all, Pippin may be a perpetual failure, but we have to keep trying to achieve that extraordinary ideal.
This is a well thought out and composed review. Reviews are opinions and opinions are like belly buttons. It definitely makes for good, balanced and interesting reading. Johnny, on the other hand, sticks it out in the big city with a girl named Whatsername Renee Cohen , a devilish alter ego known as St.
With its punk rock score, nihilistic storylines, and profusion of sex, drugs, and the F word, American Idiot makes its rock musical predecessor Rent seem relatively tame by comparison, yet it never lets us forget the humanity of its three heroes. Kerrigan has never been better, or better cast, than he is as Tunny, dynamic work from the DOMA regular both as actor and singer. As for St. The women are terrific too, especially Cohen, fresh off her star turn as Mary Magdalene in JCSS, all edge and sex appeal and powerhouse vocals as Whatsername.
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