#int. / featuring pippin.

[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 2B

Lillias White (1951) “LILLIAS WHITE is the quadruple-crown winner of the 1997 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Award, and the People’s Choice Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Sonja in The Life. Ms. White received unqualified acclaim for her triumphant portrayal of Jonsey in the recent revival of How to Succeed in Business… Her previous Broadway appearances include Cats (Grisabella), Once On this Island (Asaka), Dreamgirls (Effie), Rock ‘n’ Roll The First 5000 Years (Aretha Franklin) and Barnun (Joyce Heth). Off-Broadway she starred in Waiting for Godot, The Pincess & The Black-Eyed Pea, Antigone Africanus and Romance in Hard Times for which she won an Obie Award. Her national and internation tours include: Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Wiz, Tintypes and Dreamgirls (Drama Logue Award). She won an Emmy Award for her work on “Sesame Street” after which she made several guest appearances on “Law & Order” and “NYPD Blue.” She has appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and as a guest soloist at The White House. She is featured int eh current Disney animated film Hercules in which she plays Calliope.” – Playbill bio from Sweet Charity: The Concert, June 17, 1998.

Andrea Martin (1947) “ANDREA MARTIN (Aunt Kate, Frieda Fishbein, Beatrice Kaufman). LTC: My Favorite Year (Tony, Drama Desk, Theatre World awards). Broadway: Pippin (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Ellen Norton awards; Astaire nomination), Exit the King (DD, OCC, noms.), Young Frankenstein (Tony, DD noms.), Oklahoma! (Tony, DD noms.) Candide (Tony, DD noms.) Regional: The Matchmaker, The Royal Family (Williamstown), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Elliot Norton, IRNE awards), The Rose Tattoo (Huntington). Tour: Final Days: Everything Must Go. Film: The Producers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, All Over the Gay, My Big Fat Green Wedding, Breaking Upwards. TV: “SCTV” (Two Emmy Awards), “Sesame Street” (Special Emmy Award), “The Simpsons,” “30 Rock,” “Nurse Jackie.” Upcoming: Night at the Museum 3, “Working the Engels” (NBC series) Andrea Martin’s Lady Parts (Harper Collins/ fall 2014). For Nicky.” – Playbill bio from Act One, May 2014.

NEW PROPAGANDA AND MEDIA UNDER CUT: ALL POLLS HERE

"I think about that Actors' Fund Dreamgirls concert and specifically Lillias White's Effie on a weekly basis."

"Andrea Martin, you are the only hope we have of advancing a stalwart, brilliant, laughriot character actress to the next round. Come on, people, comedy actresses are the backbone of Broadway. If we can't scream, holler, and jump for joy at comedy, we may as well pack it in."

[aropippin]

if anyone is looking for an amalgamation of pippin content on youtube, below is a link to a playlist i made and very short descriptions of the videos i just put together for a friend

Okay here's some Pippin Content

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL

I'll list below the videos (in order) and general thoughts.

2013 Tony Awards Pippin Cast Performance HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz0JBbiI378&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=1 

Good place to start, this is the Broadway Revival Cast in 2013

PIPPIN 1973 Tony Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNyAqqEkoV8&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=2 

Fun to compare to 2013, this was the Original Broadway Cast

Andrea Martin Performs "No Time at All" from Pippin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzP-WHBxab8&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=3 

Another fun comparison, Andrea Martin won a Tony for Best Supporting Actress in a musical for this song

No Time At All - Pippin - Martha Raye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfAGN6o3Jg&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=4 

Showing how wildly different the original was from the revival lol

Finale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Com0_K9j8&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=5 

This is my favorite finale. This is Broadway Revival Cast, the video quality isn't as good as the Revival Tour video but it's worth it for Patina Miller (the Leading Player) who won the Tony for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.

On The Right Track - Pippin Broadway Revival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28j-m_11lc&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=6 

Also shows off Patina as well as Matthew James Thomas (my fave Pippin)

PIPPIN: Broadway Montage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U2Ji5-MebA&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=7 

Just a fun montage of the revival, it has some clips you won't see elsewhere

Pippin TV Commercial (stock footage / archival footage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4Tz-4rkvs&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=8 

This is commercial footage from the 70s and I think it's super cool. It features Ben Vereen as the Leading Player who won the Tony Award for Best leading Actor in a Musical. The Leading Player is the only role to be won by a man and woman in the Leading Actor/Actress categories.

Pippin " Glory " ' Manson Trio '

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3b40WGwPuw&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=9 

The Manson Trio from the original production, it's probably the most famous dance sequence from the show.

PIPPIN '73 John Rubinstein & Ben Vereen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9K0w8voPY&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=10 

Promo footage from the original production

Pippin TOUR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnvUHGOH0Yw&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=11 

This is a full bootleg of the Revival Tour. Fun fact: the actor who plays Charlemagne here is John Rubinstein, seen int he last video and was the Original Broadway Pippin.

Pippin Broadway Musical (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcqlTPpESq0&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=12 

So, in the 80's they professionally filmed Pippin but there's some Tea. The writer, Stephen Schwartz, and the director, Bob Fosse, had very different ideas for the show; especially about the tone. Schwartz wanted it to be fluffier and more of a comedy, Fosse wanted it to be more dark and foreboding. Fosse died between the show opening and this getting recorded and Schwartz cut many of the more Fosse-heavy elements from this recoded version. There is worse quality cut of this recording that has the full show in tact that I have but I don't think it's on YouTube anymore.

Pippin (1981): The Fosse Cut - I Guess I'll Miss the Man, performed by Leslie Denniston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxigjxuh2I8&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=13 

The biggest piece cut out of the 1982 recording was I Guess I'll Miss the Man.

Brian Flores (Actor), Pippin, “Corner of the Sky”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeE-0cXZC6U&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=14 

Brian Flores (Actor), Pippin, “Morning Glow.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KJdsmntknQ&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=15 

Brian Flores (Actor), Pippin, “Extraordinary.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQs4386rsmI&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=16 

These are just bootleg clips of the Revival Tour cast that I saw. I do think it's fun to compare different actors who have played Pippin. This Pippin, Brian Flores, comes off to me as more naive and innocent whereas Matthew James Thomas (Original Revival Cast) feels more driven and is a little more arrogant. One of my friends and I describe this phenomenon as a Corner-of-the-Sky (COTS) Pippin vs. an Extraordinary Pippin. The idea is that Brian's Pippin is a COTS Pippin, he's more idealistic and that song encapsulates his performance whereas Matthew's Pippin is more frustrated and looking for answers which makes Extraordinary more important to his characterization. 

pippin (revival/obc) inspired slime tutorial (PART 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQCWfLymOBA&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=17 

pippin (revival/obc) inspired slime tutorial (PART 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6ixUmg9kw&list=PLOtYjNARFqCHSJPQqZqE7JqDfNI4PVYsL&index=18 

Gen Z musical theatre culture is putting bootlegs on youtube and calling them slime tutorials. Idk. But this is the Original Revival Cast. 

[the-wotog-collection]

true canon: an explanation

True Canon is set in a typical High Fantasy D&D ye olden age world, with monsters and magic and dragons galore. It started out focused entirely on Eve and Viktor and a few others’ travels through a country called Witherhurst, and as we made more characters and stories and kingdoms, we expanded the scope of WotOG (the original D&D game) to cover all of them, until we had a nice world built up around the characters. Since not all of the stories related to the events of WotOG (and WotOG part 2: Electric Boogaloo), we decided to change the name to True Canon, so we knew which universe for sure was the foundation upon which our Many AU’s Stand. Here’s a quick n dirty timeline, for reference:

(much more under the cut)

-Eve, Viktor, and a few others that aren’t relevant to the story travel around Witherhurst on a job or something from a lady who’s Definitely Not Important At All (Her name is Prenella). At some point Prenella ditches the party and they’re stuck without a cleric for a while

-They make it to a big city, and through shenanigans that include travelling the city for fun and also almost dying to a pack of rabid dogs, Eve convinces Intem to join the party.

-Eve, Vik, and now Intem (plus one more pc) unravel a cult plot, something about the end of the world, blah blah nothing really important there. They end up taking out the cult and fighting Prenella, the cult’s leader, who also happens to be a dragon. Neat.

-After that horrifying ordeal, the party reconvenes and decides, ‘fuck it, let’s go find a new place to travel together’ and thus board a ship that they then steal from the captain (after Intem’s “pet” eats said captain).

-So begins the few years the party spends as pirates.

-Things happen, they end up fighting an eldritch god for world-ending rights, and go on their merry way.

- Intem falls into the role of reluctant (but no less ruthless) pirate captain, with vik as his first mate and eve as navigator (despite the fact that she can’t read. they figure it out)

-This is around the time Intem goes from lilac-haired sunshine boy to disgruntled cynic who’s Done With Your Shit, Viktor.

-Eventually the crew docks, and picks up Therai and Pippin for a while. Eve also brings up the idea of reviving Vik’s old travelling companion, Dante (two bros, chillin in a tavern, no feet apart ‘cause they’re so gay), and Intem’s like “Sure why the fuck not” and they set off to find his grave or whatever.

-Hatch and Xander are in the area and end up getting picked up by the crew.

-Dante gets revived, and for the next year or so, everything is fine.

-Eventually the crew docks near Therai’s old home kingdom, and he dips, taking Pippin, Xander, and Hatch with him (he really only meant to take Pip). They spend a while travelling to his kingdom, Aer-Vinn, and encounter Hatch’s long time (boy)friend Aerglo. He joins the party, at Hatch’s request.

-A little while later (vague time frame I know but exact years don’t matter here), there’s some Good Therai Angst when- Shock! Horror! - they end up stumbling upon Tal, who shares ~history~ with Therai. Not the good kind, mind you. They leave soon after meeting Tal.

-There’s a few more encounters with Therai’s old companion before Tal eventually softens up and joins the party, hell yeah. Warren joins too, because he was nearby and Also shares ~history~ with Therai and Tal. (They were all in a party together before this)

-AT THE SAME TIME THIS IS GOING ON: Rain sets out on a holy mission from their church to prove themselves worthy of being a Paladin of the Church.

-They meet Rosemary along the way, and after a small adventure together, they decide to help Rose out and find Catherine with her, because a while back Rose accidentally turned Catherine into, well, a cat.

-They do find Cat, after she’d gone through some Shit in an alternate dimension featuring a Sun Goddess and her complete mental breakdown. Cat Killed A Goddess (or two, we’ll see how the campaign goes), and made friends with the cousins Mikhail and Valentine. Mikhail doesn’t matter to the timeline right now. 

-Anyway, Rain and Rose find Cat, and settle down in a little seaside village where they work together to turn Cat back into a human.

-They Succeed!!!

-Uh-oh there’s a stranger at the door- Oh! It’s just Rain’s Cleric friend from their church, Rahon! Turns out Rain kinda went MIA and everyone back home is having a Panic, so Rahon’s here to make sure Rain is alive and well, or collect their belongings if they’re not-

-But they’re alive, so Rahon calms down and decides to stay (after sending a message back home, of course), to keep an eye or two on Rain.

-Rain is Delighted :)

-The party (minus kal) were traveling somewhere, kal ended up going the same way, and they ended up in the same city for a while. rahon saw her Up To No Good, so he kept an eye on them and saw them getting stabbed, and decided to nurse her back to health, and thus Kal Joins The Party. Rahon is an absolute sweetheart to them

-Eventually Rose, Cat, and Rain head out to a nearby cave system bc of Reasons, and end up kinda sorta stumbling into a system that leads to this world’s version of the Underdark. They need help navigating, because Fuck These Tunnels Are Confusing, and come across a little hermit drow who’s living his “best” life in his underground hut with tattered clothes and ratty books and cracked glasses.

-He just wants to see the surface but is terrified of how the world will treat him if he goes up alone, so he offers to guide everyone through the Underdark in exchange for them taking him up to the surface. Everyone agrees

-Astralus, little hermit drow lad, does so, and soon finds himself stumbling out into broad daylight. He’s got light sensitivity and everything Burns, but he’s so fucking happy oh my gods. Also he’s crying but it’s okay, he’s kinda really emotional.

-Aster joins the party! And they find out he’s cousins with Rose, who practically adopted him as a brother anyway let’s be real.

-Somehow Val learns of Cat’s whereabouts, and pops by to say hi to his trauma buddy. Cue shock as he sees her as human for the first time. Aster develops an immediate crush, and takes to following Val around like a lost puppy.

-Val is having a Time because, Aster looks just like a person he knew in an alternate universe and things didn’t turn out well for them. Yikes.

-Val joins the party, if only to tease Cat and finally have a place to be for a while

-MEANWHILE: Bree finds an abomination living in the abandoned mineshafts near her village. She decides he could probably use a friend, since the entire village is pretty scared of/hostile towards him, and becomes that friend. She finds out his name is Ve, and he’s a sweetheart. She makes immediate friends and he teaches her sign language, because he Literally Doesn’t Have A Face, he can’t speak.

-A few weeks later, either Ve or Bree decide to leave bc Fuck This Town, except they don’t say Fuck because they’re both softe beans (they both legally cannot say fuck. and i actually had an idea for how they leave ovo). Either way, they leave, and through shenanigans, they pick up Three More Tieflings, what the hell, which is kinda funny because previously, Bree didn’t think tieflings existed at all. 

-Tarvaii and Trancey are travelling together as a Chaotic Mischief Duo, and end up joining the party because Bree made friends

-Same situation with Chaym, though he was alone and depressed because his entire village got massacred. Bree made friends, and Chaym joined the party

-Chaym also ended up teaching Trancey magic, specifically Necromancy, which is kinda really stupid dangerous but it’s fine, Chaym survived, why shouldn’t Trancey? (flawed logic but okay Chaym)

-Cut to a few years later, back with Eve and Co.

-They’re in a tavern, Eve sees a depressed tiefling at the bar. What does she do? Immediately go try to cheer him up.

-She finds out he’d left his pregnant girlfriend on a mission to go help out somewhere, and ended up stuck in a weird place where time passes differently for him. It’s been 26 years, though to him it felt more like a handful of weeks. He’s scared and confused and would very much like to find his family, but he has no idea where he is.

-Eve’s heart breaks bc! he’s so sad and his girlfriend is pregnant and he’s got a family and just wants to get back to them, how could she not want to help? and thus she decides to help the tiefling, Viren, find his family.

-Through a series of events, the find out Viren’s family was living in a beautiful city built into the mountains, that fell quite a few years back. Luckily, his girlfriend left beforehand, and moved to a small mining town, where she gave birth to, and briefly raised, their son. She named him Ve, after his father, who she assumed was dead.

-There was a fire at one point, and Angelica, Viren’s girlfriend, died saving Ve. Viren is absolutely devastated when he finds out, and Eve offers to resurrect Angelica, y’know, bring the family together again, even if for just a short time.

-Vi agrees, and they do so! Woo! Also Eve and co. meet up with Ve for a while so the family really is back together.

-Intem, doing a sneaky trick, makes it so Angelica’s soul keeps the body and just, lives until the body dies, be it natural or unnatural causes. He only tells Eve and Angelica about it, and waits to see how long it takes Viren to realize ‘oh shit I’m not losing my fiance so soon’

-Also Viren and Angelica get engaged! Woo!

-A little while passes, Viren and Anne join the party, and Eve gets pregnant with Intem’s kids. At this point the party’s stopped adventuring, and they all settled down somewhere nice. Anyway Eve’s pregnant and gives birth to twins, Olive and Evergreen (Evan for short), but Olive looks more like Therai than Intem and it’s kinda weird, but nobody really minds because the twins are just, so cute. Also Therai (and co) came back and built the party a nice house, so, yeah.

-Olive and Evan grow up, and Evan takes an interest in Druid Magic. Vik lets Evan access his Giant Library and teaches him general magic stuff. Olive scares her whole ass family by taking an interest in Necromancy, and eventually someone gets in contact with Chaym (and by extension Trancey), and has him come over to teach Olive.

-Olive becomes a necromancer! And then heads off with Evan in tow to start their own life of adventuring. 

-Eve has another kid, Avery, with Therai

-Olive befriends a Whole Ass Dragon, gives him the nickname Jade, and introduces him to Evan. By the time the trio make it back to Jade’s hoard, Avery’s taken on the role of Fighter and heads out into the world to do her own thing. She also meets Clover, another fighter, and they travel together for a while before joining Olive, Evan, and Jade. 

-That’s it, that’s where we stopped on the timeline of True Canon. It’ll go on, of course, but, here’s the general timeline in 4 pages