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bullet Posted: 4/18/08 at 4:30pm
I've also seen this show done on a shoestring budget - I think it still works without all the glitzy spectacle. I love the show...
 
"Corner of the Sky" gets a little annoying after the 1000th time, though...
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bullet Posted: 4/19/08 at 9:59am
Originally posted by notmyshoes

 
"Corner of the Sky" gets a little annoying after the 1000th time, though...
 
THAT I won't argue with you about.  I thought maybe it was just the way the actor sang the song that annoyed me, but am starting to think it's just the song itself.
 
Did have a great time with the show overall though!
 
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bullet Posted: 5/01/08 at 10:44am
Originally posted by tristanrobin

Since this thread was started, I have seen another production - the recent revival at Goodspeed Opera House (with Mickey Dolenz of the Monkeys as Charlemagne).

It was TERRIFIC! Very exciting - very dramatic - very funny - very musical. I had remembered just loving this play when I saw it on Broadway, but I enjoyed it even more this time around!

I would go see it anywhere it was produced.
 
I'm surprised they did it again.  It wasn't a money-maker for them when they did it a few years back.  It did better when it went on tour.  Glad it was a success this time around. 
 
I saw it twice, both times done by young people's theater...and both times was the same reaction...fun.  "I love his feet."
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bullet Posted: 5/01/08 at 8:34pm
I've never done the show (thought I'm debating auditioning for the role of Bigfoot Berthe in the near future), but I saw it three times on Broadway back in the '70s.  The first time I was dragged - after that, it was SO personal choice!!!  I didn't get to see Irene Ryan or Ben Vereen - but I DID get to see Martha Raye in the part of Berthe.  When she came out with the line about the flags, I think they added five minutes to the run time waiting for the audience to stop laughing.
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bullet Posted: 5/01/08 at 9:47pm
chel - you must be thinking of a different company - this was the first production of "Pippin" at Goodspeed.

The tour was this past year of this production.
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bullet Posted: 5/18/08 at 10:12pm
Just wanted to share - I DID go to the auditions for PIPPIN, and I DID get the part of Berthe!  I am SO thrilled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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bullet Posted: 5/19/08 at 7:33am
What a fairdinkum bewdy SherriAnne, G'donya 'n toi toi Chookas to you for the part!
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bullet Posted: 5/19/08 at 7:47am
Did this show back in 1989 - WOW almost 20 years ago.  Man time flies.  Anyway loved the show. IT IS a bit dated musically now, classic perhaps but dated.  AND for what it's worth, it can get VERY PG13 and perhaps even R rated now depending upon the director and choreography - who both were very Fosse-esque as someone put it.  Ours was actually done with our Shakespeare In The Park summer series and oddly, it was more well received than the two bard shows that summer.  It DID create a bit of controversy however.  At one point, the board was going to NOT allow some elements of the show to go on, after we all had worked VERY hard for a very long time to bring it up to speed.  So the ENTIRE CAST AND STAFF threatened to WALK away from the shows - many people were cast in the Shakespeare stuff as well - if they did that.  They relented and it was the best show of the summer, made the most money and was critically and publicly so well received, they all patted themselves on the back for THEIR ?? vision to do the show and to allow it to go on in the format we presented it.  EVERYONE was willing to give up their pay to walk away if necessary. THANKFULLY it wasn't and I got a nice paycheck at the end.
 
GREAT show but again, musically dated and a bit "conceptual" such that I agree it can appear to be pretty disjointed as Topper put it, and often campy as heck - almost too much at times.  But for when it was done, that wasn't as big an issue as it appears to be with this show today.
 
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bullet Posted: 5/20/08 at 7:27am
I'm in the LOVE to watch it...would HATE to have to put it on category, but if you do...Good Luck!
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