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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:10 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:51 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:05 pm
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i'm not really sure how to describe this and it will just end up being a rant/boring anecdote with no real point but oh well.
okay so jess, sam, steph and i went to see jen in some production of 'pippin'. none of us knew what pippin was about but i assumed it was the story of one small boy trying to make his way on broadway (or something like that, it was a vague thought). anyway, all preconceptions were pretty quickly proven incorrect because when we walked in there was a gameshow set up and this very... oily, kind of (that voice and the very flowing movements and occasionally there was some little richard in there) guy introduced the main character, pippin, who's the son of charlesmagne. he sings some song about ambitions and his place in the world with lots and lots of overexaggerated hand motions and at the end he tries
well actually i will just outline the plot and then make a list of highlights, i guess.
-Leading Player comes in, The Company is introduced, pippin is introduced, 'lightning round' mentioned -pippin comes home, father issues made apparent, evil (and promiscuous i guess) stepmother introduced, WWF fan half-brother introduced -pippin decides that he needs to fight in a war to become a man and gain his father's admiration, war is fought, mortality and morality are discovered -pippin visits his grandmother for advice, she tells him to have fun with life -pippin has an orgy! -pippin realizes that his father is sometimes tyrannical, decides to lead a revolution -charlesmagne is killed in a church by pippin -pippin realizes it's a drag to have to rule and he sucks at it -Leading Player reanimates charlesmagne's corpse, he rules again -pippin is depressed, stumbles upon catherine who tries to cheer him up -by having sex with him -catherine's son's duck dies, catherine and pippin get closer -pippin decides to leave -Leading Player and Company show up, pressure pippin to use the lightning round, reveal what the lightning round is (suicide) -catherine convinces pippin to not die, Leading Player freaks out and calls off the show (which is the whole show so far, apart from brief interludes) -catherine's son figures that hmm maybe this suicide thing isn't so bad...
-the guy playing the Leading Player was really good. everyone else was okay maybe. jen had a very minor role but she actually acted and most of the other people kind of went through their roles very woodenly and sloppily. -the costumes were uh pretty good. they were basically the actual actors' clothes except for a few instances. one guy wore a hoodie for the entire play and when everyone else had to wear a hood for the church scene he just flipped the hood up. any other costumes were basically old halloween 'scream' costumes. -the weapons were kind of funny. jen fought with a dragon claw axe and someone else had a sword from naruto. -when pippin kills charlesmagne, he is dressed in a large, billowy robe with a hood and he pulls out a collapsible lightsaber which he uncollapses and whacks charlesmagne with. -when Leading Player reanimates charlesmagne, he points his index fingers at the slumped body and goes 'bzzzzzzzzt' -there were a lot of nazi propaganda film clips/images of dead bodies and shelled towns being played on the TV next to the stage a lot of the time. -there is an interpretive dance of sex. the two people who performed it were really, really, reaaaalllly into it. i'm not sure if they were entirely serious but yeah. -the lightning round. it was supposed to be a pit of fire or something but instead it was a store mannequin in sleepwear on a cardboard pedestal with a smoke machine under it. strangely, i got the general idea despite this. -well the acting in general. it was either over the top or really sloppy and it just made the whole thing a lot more fun to watch.
it's hard to describe and i'm pretty crappy at describing things but yeah i laughed more than i have in a really long time.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:24 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:39 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:41 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:01 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:38 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:09 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:08 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:14 pm
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