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‘Why is this show being revived now?: PIPPIN – Southwark Playhouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly8th March 2018Leave a Comment

I want to like the fantasy and the colours of Pippin, to totally give in to the world of the play, but its problems are too many. Though I’m likely to be the humming the opening number for at least the next fortnight.

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‘Unmissable musical theatre’: PIPPIN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Reviews by Jonathan Baz5th March 2018Leave a Comment

This Pippin is one of those productions rarely seen on the fringe. It captures the sparkle of Broadway, transporting it to south London in a whirl of unmissable musical theatre.

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‘Barrel-scraping wit’ – PIPPIN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Reviews by Johnny Fox3rd March 2018Leave a Comment

What shafts this production of Pippin royally in its fishnet and suspender-clad buttocks is its slavishly dated adherence to Fosse style costume and choreography as though no other interpretation could flatter the music or illuminate the story.

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‘Performances are stellar across the board’: PIPPIN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Reviews by Olivia Mitchell2nd March 2018Leave a Comment

For a mystical, magical, mystical, whimsical show that will surprise, make sure you get along to the Southwark Playhouse for the limited run of Pippin.

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PIPPIN – Manchester ★★★★★

In Musicals, Opinion, Regional theatre, Reviews by Jonathan Baz25th September 2017Leave a Comment

Pippin closed this weekend at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre with, yet again, this Northern powerhouse of fringe theatre delivering a stunning take on a Broadway Tony-winner.

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THE HIRED MAN – Union Theatre

In Concerts, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Reviews by Ian Foster1st August 2017Leave a Comment

Set at the turn of the previous century in the unforgiving rural landscape of Cumbria, The Hired Man himself is the hard-working John Tallentire, a man who will turn to any aspect of working the land – above in the field or below in the mines – to support his family, but in difficult times and with the Great War approaching, life is tough.

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