Pippin, Charing Cross Theatre review - happy-clappy vibe | reviews, news & interviews Pippin, Charing Cross Theatre review - happy-clappy vibe Pippin, Charing Cross Theatre review - happy-clappy vibe Light up a joss stick for this pared-back version of Stephen Schwartz 's 1972 musical by Gary NaylorWednesday, 07 July 2021 Leading the charge: Ian Carlyle in 'Pippin' Edward Johnson If Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1966 was anyone under the age of 25, why couldn’t a teenage student write a musical in 1967? There are plenty of answers to that question of course, none of which stopped the composer Stephen Schwartz, who conjured Pippin while still at Carnegie Mellon University