Theater
February, 1973
Pippin is cute--on a grand scale. This new musical keeps nudging itself and the audience in the ribs. Actors step out of character and make comments. If a snatch of dialog is terrible, we're told that it's terrible. One of the show's snappier numbers, No Time at All, sung senior-citizen style by Irene Ryan, is interrupted (and undercut) by the lowering of a mock-up of the sheet music so that the audience can follow the bouncing ball. At $15 top, theatergoers deserve more than a community sing an...
