When I was a precocious nine-year-old, my stepmother Carol #1 (Sara Lee Devil’s Food Cake in bed) took me to see PIPPIN at the Kennedy Center. For those of you who don’t know, PIPPIN is a musical by Stephen Schwartz based on Nobel sentimentalist John Steinbeck’s novel THE SHORT REIGN OF PIPPIN IV and to read it on the page is to be about twelve; but in …
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