The first play I saw in a theater was PIPPIN. I saw it at the Kennedy Center not long after my father left and my mother dropped (essentially) dead when I was alone in the house with her, so PIPPIN’s peculiar plaid of circus, sexuality, mordant wit and mortality — its “Bob Fosse-ness” — felt thrillingly accurate to my nine-year-old self. This was exactl…
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