PIPPIN OPENS WITH STEINMEYER

As mentioned byJim Steinmeyer when he was our guest on the Spirit of Magic Podcast, a production of Pippin has opened at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Pasadena Weekly offered their thoughts on the show's opening night by saying, "With “Pippin,” Calhoun’s conceit is a magic show with illusion design by Jim Steinmeyer. This is markedly different from the anime-inspired version of this Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz musical at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo last spring. This production had a few technical glitches opening night, but that’s a minor quibble when everything else has so much snap and polish. The magic created here isn’t just the magician’s illusions, but the fabulous fusion of song, dance and social commentary and the seamless melding of two communities — hearing and hearing-impaired — on stage for an intermissionless yet fleeting two hours."