‘Magic to do – just for you’: the miracle of Stephen Schwartz’s musical Pippin

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‘Magic to do – just for you’: the miracle of Stephen Schwartz’s musical Pippin

A 50th-anniversary concert in London celebrates the unlikely show about the son of a holy Roman emperor that became one of Broadway’s biggest hitsIn the 2019 bio-series Fosse/Verdon, Sam Rockwell breaks out a vulpine smile in a rehearsal room scene, playing the groundbreaking choreographer and director Bob Fosse. As he outlines his outlandish plans for a new musical called Pippin, about the son of the holy Roman emperor Charlemagne, eyebrows are…