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

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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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@RickWolffTV Жыл бұрын

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

@InnerCityGirl1 Жыл бұрын

Love love LOVE the lead man's voice!

@alexvokoun9272 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын

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

@Freddie10ification Жыл бұрын

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

@tombennett3827 5 ай бұрын

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

@kennrothman205 Жыл бұрын

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.

@kevinalanmattson 19 күн бұрын

Musical production is nicely updated.

@cw9817 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@cw9817 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

i really liked the circus theme

@tomshea8382 Жыл бұрын

"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."

@scottgranell6191 Жыл бұрын

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

@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын

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

@scottgranell6191 Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@starella3407 2 жыл бұрын

Saw this today and it’s incredible!!!

@Lynnys1 2 жыл бұрын

Saw it. Loved it. 😍

@TheatreKidCarter 2 жыл бұрын

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

@kev7161 4 ай бұрын

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

@neyhaushahnfilho2629 2 жыл бұрын

excelente!

@helenagraciavenzuela6469 8 ай бұрын

Fabulous!

@lagrangeleo 8 ай бұрын

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

@ai__kiryu 9 күн бұрын

素敵💓❤

@jasonchambers4495 3 ай бұрын

I like it.

@FidesAla 2 жыл бұрын

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...)

@haineshisway 4 ай бұрын

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.

@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын

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

@YooTuba 7 ай бұрын

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.

@Gnostic72 10 ай бұрын

Pippin Meets Godspell

@ZenArcher9091 Жыл бұрын

no drums, no horns??????

@manveersoor1042 2 жыл бұрын

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

@RheaIR 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын

They wouldn't sell single tickets? 😖

@petertrei Жыл бұрын

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

@j.r.cilliangreen4083 Жыл бұрын

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

@HE65432 11 ай бұрын

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

@scottgranell6191 Жыл бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

did you write this while having a stroke

@JayJasperLondon 2 жыл бұрын

Shame they never answer when u call their ticket line ☹️

@scottgranell6191 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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!