(Readers, I welcome your alternate elevator pitches.)
And even when he has everything he thinks he wanted, its still not enough.
The reviews are raves, and you could already hear the awards being engraved.
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That brings us toPippin, which Bob wants to rip open at the seams.
Go big, he calls it.
Glorifying battles, barbarous, and bloody?
Ben Vereens Leading Player doing a soft-shoe amidst the carnage?
How realistic is that?
He wants all that glory, glory.
But Gwen isnt seeing that same shine.
Its now been 14 years since her last Tony Award, and her playChildren!
Children!is dead on arrival.
and asks if he can come see it before opening night and share some notes.
Does this mean well have to wait even longer still to see All That Jazz?
The Relationship
Enter Ann Reinking.
The dude definitely had a routine.
But before Bob and Ann become involved, shes apparently one of the few (or only?)
Bobs womanizing and drug use only increase during this period, compounded and fueled by his success.
(And that part in the number?
It goes to Ann.)
Like the Leading Player says:Nothing has been completely fulfilling now, has it?
The Curtain Call
After the scene at the apartment, Bob hits bottom aPippin-accented hallucinatory bottom.
What stops him is Nicole.
When he retreats and dials 911, the Dream Troupe calls it cowardice.
(He chose life, one of the Dream Dancers smirked, calling back to Bobs dismissal of thePippinending.
How realistic is that?)
Rivers belong where they can ramble, you know.
