Pippin
Opening |
Closing |
| June 10, 2021 | June 19, 2021 |
About This Production
**Start Your Summer Off Right!! – Prepare To Be Amazed As CCP Transforms The Central Bank Auditorium Into A Big Top!!”**
CCP’s Pippin, The Musical
June 10th, 11th, 12th and June 17th, 18th, 19th
Capital City Productions is honored to present an extraordinarily talented cast & crew in an extraordinary coming-of-age story—CCP’s premiere of “Pippin, The Musical!” a spectacular visual musical complete with aerial acrobatics you can enjoy in June in the Central Bank Auditorium home of Capital City Productions.
With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young man’s journey to be extraordinary.
Winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, this updated circus-inspired version of Pippin continues to captivate and appeal to the young at heart throughout the world.
Heir to the Frankish throne, the young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment.
He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh and the intrigues of political power (after disposing of his father, King Charlemagne the Great).
In the end, though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day.
When Pippin opened in 1972, it was a sensation. Directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, who was coming off his Academy Award-winning film version of Cabaret, it was a showbiz triumph of jazz hands, sexy dancing and theatrical magic.
It was also the Broadway debut of 24-year-old songwriter Stephen Schwartz, who’s better known these days for the global megahit Wicked. He had written a version of Pippin — about the son of medieval emperor Charlemagne — as a college musical. And Schwartz says that behind the Fosse razzmatazz, the show had a real 1960s vibe.
In the new Tony Award winning revival there’s something about the show that is not just an entertainment; it’s actually touching some very deep questions [about] the choices we make and those consequences, the real story of Pippin is, you have to live life. You can’t take a back seat and deliberate. You actually have to be literally through the fire to understand what life is really about.
While the new revival has kept some aspects of Fosse’s original staging and choreography — which used a touring theatrical troupe to tell Pippin’s story — the revival turns that troupe into the cast and crew of a circus.
We are very excited about this idea of circus and the metaphor of circus, and the whole mystery of when a circus comes to town and pitches a tent on the outskirts, and you’re invited into a world that is kind of forbidden and dangerous and seductive, and all of those actions make sense in terms of the script of Pippin.
A Visual Eye Candy for the Patrons Production!!
Evening Performances:
| Dinner Served: | 6:30 pm |
| Peformance: | 7:30 pm |
Matinee Peformances:
| Dinner Served: | 12:00 pm |
| Performance: | 1:00 pm |
The Amazing Talented Cast & Crew of “Pippin, The Musical!!”
Curtis Sudduth – Leading Player
Wyatt Logan – Pippin
Ben Miller – King Charles
Robin Steinhaus – Fastrada
Natalie Wittenberger – Catherine
Natalie Bessette – Berthe
Colton O’Neal – Lewis
Jack Bundy – Theo
Tiffany Vierra – Catherine Understudy
Ensemble:
Deborah Tragasz
Jacob Dyer
Joe Kliethermes
Ntiri Lopez
Linda Pappert
Natalie Wilson
Taylor Sinclair
Gillian Hardin
Kyrstin Kein
Jenn Cornelius-Green
Colin Years
Danielle Simpson
Eleanor Bundy
Gena Terlizzi
Jaelie Bott
Jill George
Katrina Peter
Patrick Schieber
Serenity Moore
Skylar Nelson
Tiffany Vierra
Laykin Leitnaker
Tyler McCutchen
Callie – “As Herself”
**You will enjoy a Dinner Buffet In The Hawthorn Banquet Room by The Award Winning Argyle Catering!**
Pippins Menu:
– King Ryan’s Famous Argyles “Hailed-The-Best-In-The-Kingdom” Fried Chicken
– Leading Player (Ring Leader) “Greatest-Show-On-Earth” Savory Beef Burnt Ends
– Berthe’s Imperial “Live-Life-To-The-Fullest” Fresh Fruit Salad
– King Charles “Salt-of-the-earth” Sea Salt Rubbed Baked Potato with Real Whipped Butter and Sour Cream
– Lewis’s Vanity “Addicted-To-Baked-Perfection” – – “Tangy-and-Sweet” BarBQ Baked Beans
– Pippin’s “Protagonist-Center-Of-Any-Summertime-Feast” Rich Buttery Corn on the Cobb
– Catherine’s “elegantly-light-and-fluffy” Fresh Raised White & Wheat Yeast Rolls with real “Sweet” whipped butter
– Fastrada’s “Sinfully-Delicious” strawberry short cake topped with “deviously” real whipped topping smothered in “alluring” fresh strawberries. A Summertime sensation for the tastebuds!
**Coffee, Tea, and Lemonade are served but you are welcome, as always, to bring your own musical libations (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) to make your Broadway Kingdom come to life!!