I saw the national tour of Pippin tonight. I had seen the SF stop last October (2014) and disliked it quite a lot. Tonight was the same tour but with a new Leading Player and Pippin - and they are fantastic. I think my issue before was that the two leads were less than stellar (and the Pippin was the original Pippin on Broadway) and it made me dislike the show quite a lot. I've always loved the score and have found (and still find) the book tedious and hard to tell the story. But tonight was great. Oh, and Adrienne Barbeau was Berthe and she was great. Also, John Rubinstein is STILL playing the King (I saw him last year) and he's still great.
