The run closed June 12, 1977
- Opened
- October 23, 1972
- Closed
- June 12, 1977
- Performances
- 1,944
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 6th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Pippin 3 more that season
| 1870 | Niblos Garden Original | 28 perf. |
| 1973 | Her Majesty's Theatre Transfer | |
| 2013 | Music Box Theatre Revival · Diane Paulus | 709 perf. |
Who was in it55 named
Candy Brown
Gene Foote
Roger Hamilton
Jennifer Nairn Smith
Shane Nickerson
Paul Solen
Pamela Sousa
Antonia Ellis
Irving Lee
Yolanda Ray Raven
Fay Sappington
Dorothy Stickney
Barry Williams
Shamus Barnes
Sandra Brewer
Terry Calloway
Jerry Colker
Patti D Beck
Laurent Giroux
Douglas Grober
Mitzi Hamilton
Ben Harney
Larry Merritt
Ken Miller
Sally Neal
Bryan Nicholas
Jo Ann Ogawa
Denise Pence
Louise Quick Bowen
Justin Ross
Loyd Sannes
Sonja Stuart
Terri Treas
Evan Turtz
Chet Walker
John Windsor
Kathrynann Wright
20 of these 55 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 35 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters8 roles recorded
John Rubinstein Pippin
Ben Vereen Leading Player
Irene Ryan Berthe
Jill Clayburgh Catherine
Eric Berry Charlemagne
Leland Palmer Fastrada
Shane Nickerson Theo
Christopher Chadman Lewis
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Bob Fosse
- Choreographer
- Bob Fosse
- Producer
- Stuart Ostrow
- Orchestrations
- Ralph Burns
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 5 from 11 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Pippin, starring Ben Vereen, directed by Fosse, and with a score by Schwartz, opens at the Imperial Theater for a run of 1,944 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 28
- The fifth longest running Broadway musical of the 1970s, The Magic Show was Stephen Schwartz’s third in a row — the others were Godspell and Pippin — to play over 1,900 performances. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 232
- An extension of Bob Fosse’s previous work in Pippin and Chicago — plus Michael Bennett’s in A Chorus Line — Dancin’ represented the final triumph of the Broadway choreographer by doing away with practically everything else but. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 242
- In the end, at last reunited with Cunegonde, Candide (like the hero of the later musical, Pippin) comes to realize that perfection can never be attained and that one must accept life’s realities and try to do one’s best. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 196
- On October 23, 1972, Pippin opened, and it stayed lor 1,944 performances, making it the longest-running show to open at the Imperial. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 182
- Pippin, which moved here from the Imperial, was a long-running musical that began in 1977. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 348
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Pippin at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.