Pippin was a forerunner in the big swing of musical theater away from the happy-ever-after era that defined the genre's "golden age." The 1972 show by Stephen Schwartz (music) and Roger O. Hirson (book) ends not with a whizbang, all-hands-on-deck, colored-light spectacle of song and dance, but with a lone man standing onstage, divested of costume, […] The post A provocative <i>Pippin</i> appeared fir…
