"Magic To Do" | Watch the West End cast of Pippin perform

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  • Опубліковано 11 сер 2021
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    Watch the cast of Pippin perform "Magic to Do" at Charing Cross Theatre, filmed by The Theatre Channel.
    Stephen Schwartz’s smash-hit musical Pippin recently extended its critically-acclaimed West End season until 5 September.
    The musical has been revived in an immersive production, directed by Steven Dexter. With an infectiously unforgettable score from Grammy and Oscar Award-winning and musical theatre giant Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young man's journey to be extraordinary.
    Cast includes Ryan Anderson as Pippin, Ian Carlyle as Leading Player, Alex James-Hatton as Lewis, Daniel Krikler as Charles, Gabrielle Lewis-Dodson as Fastrada, Natalie McQueen as Catherine, Genevieve Nicole as Berthe and Jaydon Vijn as Theo.
    Creative team includes choreographer Nick Winston, musical supervisor Michael Bradley, designer David Shields, musical director Chris Ma, lighting designer Aaron J. Dootson, sound designer Keegan Curran and casting by Anne Vosser.
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  • @kevinalanmattson
    @kevinalanmattson 10 днів тому +1

    Musical production is nicely updated.

  • @alexvokoun9272
    @alexvokoun9272 2 роки тому +52

    It’s like they combined Pippin with Godspell’s style. I really dig it.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому +1

      and Hair and kumbaya, too ... thumbs down 👎

    • @Freddie10ification
      @Freddie10ification 11 місяців тому +2

      Makes sense Same composer , time period etc .,, 70’s we’re great!! A evolving and powerful time period of culture

  • @RickWolffTV
    @RickWolffTV Рік тому +13

    the wink at the finale, by playing with a small flame, is brilliant

  • @InnerCityGirl1
    @InnerCityGirl1 Рік тому +19

    Love love LOVE the lead man's voice!

  • @tombennett3827
    @tombennett3827 5 місяців тому +5

    I like this interpretation of my favorite number from PIPPIN. I especially like the staging, dancing and Leading Player's performance.

  • @kennrothman205
    @kennrothman205 Рік тому +11

    WOW! AMAZING! On my side of the pond, I was involved with a production of PIPPIN. We had gone through auditions, casting, rehearsals, set building, costumes and even tech week. AND THEN...AND THEN...AND GENTLEMEN AND THEN....48 hours before opening curtain...COVID shut us and the world down. Not even MAGIC could help us then.

  • @ai__kiryu
    @ai__kiryu 7 годин тому

    素敵💓❤

  • @tomshea8382
    @tomshea8382 Рік тому +8

    "We can't get Hair."
    "How about Godspell?"
    "Nope."
    "What can we get?"
    "Pippin's available."
    "Well. we have all this 70s looking stuff. Might as well."

  • @cw9817
    @cw9817 Рік тому +14

    I love a) the greater adherence to the original production, eliminating the circus motif of last decade's revival (a motif that I loved in its own right); b) the sun on the floor of the stage; and c) most of all, the fact that the play starts with Pippin and the players sing *to him,* pointing to the climactic revelation that the troupe is part of his imagination. I hope this production ditched the Theo ending, which isn't bad but is superfluous given the finale's revelation.

    • @j.r.cilliangreen4083
      @j.r.cilliangreen4083 Рік тому

      They are referred to as the “demons “ so they might not be part of his imagination

    • @cw9817
      @cw9817 Рік тому

      ​​@@j.r.cilliangreen4083, not in the original Pippin script, which my high-school theater group used in 1983. I probably still have that script somewhere.

    • @eandttruelove
      @eandttruelove Рік тому

      I know those were additions but they are what made me fall in love with Pippin. The original was okay, Ben Vereen was Amazing, but much of the rest and especially the end fell flat for me. It will be interesting to see this version. I hope it meets somewhere in the middle.

    • @georgia.newman
      @georgia.newman 11 місяців тому

      i really liked the circus theme

  • @scottgranell6191
    @scottgranell6191 Рік тому +7

    the lead showed that someone could sing this and not have you think of Ben Vereen, qmqzing, he has magic to do.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому +8

      pretty sure a couple of ladies already showed us that in 2013

    • @scottgranell6191
      @scottgranell6191 11 місяців тому

      agreed...thsat role has not to have the biggest sxhoes to fill, but the talent doe s nto need to steal ben's shoes but wear their own :)

  • @lagrangeleo
    @lagrangeleo 8 місяців тому +1

    Seeing the cast coming on stage, was expecting them to break out into "The Age of Aquarius" from Hair!!

  • @Lynnys1
    @Lynnys1 2 роки тому +5

    Saw it. Loved it. 😍

  • @TheatreKidCarter
    @TheatreKidCarter 2 роки тому +12

    Wish they had a few more company members to give more fullness to the number

    • @kev7161
      @kev7161 4 місяці тому

      I was thinking the exact same thing. It sounded a little thin.

  • @starella3407
    @starella3407 2 роки тому +2

    Saw this today and it’s incredible!!!

  • @helenagraciavenzuela6469
    @helenagraciavenzuela6469 8 місяців тому

    Fabulous!

  • @neyhaushahnfilho2629
    @neyhaushahnfilho2629 2 роки тому +1

    excelente!

  • @jasonchambers4495
    @jasonchambers4495 3 місяці тому

    I like it.

  • @haineshisway
    @haineshisway 4 місяці тому

    Whatever one thinks of the concept, and I do like seeing them not do watered down Fosse, a note to the director of the video itself - one word: GEOGRAPHY! If we don't know the geography, none of his makes sense.

  • @YooTuba
    @YooTuba 6 місяців тому +5

    I like this better than the overdone circus hooha, but the ensemble being small and all young athletic types is missing the diversity I'd expect to see with a roving bunch of players. It kind of looks like a high school for the performing arts production.

  • @FidesAla
    @FidesAla 2 роки тому +2

    Making the troupe leader shippy with Pippin does not work at all unless they give the ending a complete 180, because the whole ending is that the performers are more-or-less evil and leading him to destruction, and that a "normal" life without making waves should be satisfying for anyone... I was so disappointed in that when I saw it on Broadway.
    But I'm glad the productions here in Japan are doing what Broadway did. I only know Crystal Kay from the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist, but... (Speaking of which, FMA deserves a good stage play and it hasn't gotten one yet...)

  • @Gnostic72
    @Gnostic72 10 місяців тому

    Pippin Meets Godspell

  • @ZenArcher9091
    @ZenArcher9091 Рік тому +5

    no drums, no horns??????

  • @Marcel_Audubon
    @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому +1

    This is the West End version? 😬 West End of where? Saskatchewan?

  • @manveersoor1042
    @manveersoor1042 2 роки тому +10

    I won't lie, the west end let us down with this version

  • @HE65432
    @HE65432 11 місяців тому +1

    I wasn't expecting screaming guitars. What happened to the pleasant instruments?

  • @petertrei
    @petertrei Рік тому +4

    I saw Pippin in 1974 on Broadway. This is nice, but does not compare.

  • @scottgranell6191
    @scottgranell6191 11 місяців тому +1

    with all due repsect to the urrnet broadway cats, THISD is the obly pippin that comes close to the rpoginal, because it understodd that while schwartz wrote the music, FOPSSE defined the mood, NOT cioque du sol;iel

    • @dukeofkings8942
      @dukeofkings8942 Місяць тому +1

      did you write this while having a stroke

  • @RheaIR
    @RheaIR 2 роки тому +1

    The one I didn't get to see.. If it's the one that did some outside shows that they wouldn't let parties of 1 to :( looking at it, I think it is.

    • @RheaIR
      @RheaIR Рік тому

      It was. Now seen more. Very happy. :D

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому

      They wouldn't sell single tickets? 😖

  • @j.r.cilliangreen4083
    @j.r.cilliangreen4083 Рік тому

    A lesson in why summoning the Fae night not be such a great idea…

  • @JayJasperLondon
    @JayJasperLondon 2 роки тому +2

    Shame they never answer when u call their ticket line ☹️

  • @lastmatinee
    @lastmatinee Місяць тому +1

    I am honestly struggling with this version. The cast is talented, no doubt. I'm just not sure if I agree with the Direction.

  • @scottgranell6191
    @scottgranell6191 Рік тому +2

    I love how the dancers define the stage..That is what Fosse did, and the better pippins do, though boradway...well, they get too ciorque du solil about it

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому +1

      This needs a little Cirque... I wonder why they threw in those acrobatic moves in at the very end? just to show how unCirque they are? Mission: accomplished!

  • @am_small
    @am_small 3 місяці тому

    my question is why is charlemagne a twink and why does he look younger than lewis 😭