Productions4 on Broadway
| 1870 | Niblos Garden Original. April 4, 1870 · predates this show | 28 performances |
| 1972 | Imperial Theatre Revival. October 23, 1972 · Bob Fosse | 1,944 performances · 5 Tony wins |
| 1973 | Her Majesty's Theatre Transfer. October 30, 1973 | |
| 2013 | Music Box Theatre Revival. April 25, 2013 · Diane Paulus | 709 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Pippin matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
In the literature50 passages
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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p232
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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p242
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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p196
On October 23, 1972, Pippin opened, and it stayed lor 1,944 performances, making it the longest-running show to open at the Imperial. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p182
Pippin, which moved here from the Imperial, was a long-running musical that began in 1977. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p348
A greater success, although its material was weak, was Pippin (10/3/72; 1,944 performances). The show, with score by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson, owed its success to the direction and choreography of Bob Fosse. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p279
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