Donald Pippin was a Broadway music director, conductor, arranger, and lyricist who died June 9, 2022.
Pippin was the last surviving recipient of the Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director, which we received for Oliver! at the 17th Annual Tony Awards.
Among Pippin’s major collaborations with Jerry Herman were Mame and La Cage aux Folles.
Pippin was Musical Director for 110 in the Shade in 1963, in addition to his work on Oliver!
Teddy & Alice (1987), Catskills on Broadway (1991), The Red Shoes (1993), Dream (1997), and the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line were later Broadway shows.
He received a Drama Desk Special Award in 1986.
Pippin and Herman reconnected in 1979 while working on The Grand Tour. Pippin was also the Music Director for Lauren Bacall’s Woman of the Year (1981), which performed for 770 performances.
Pippin made his Broadway debut in 1955, providing supplementary dance music for the musical Ankles Aweigh.
Pippin worked as an assistant conductor on 1960 smash musical Irma la Douce, which lasted for 524 sessions.
He was 95.
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