Bollywood style puts cultural complications in 'Pippin'

The subtitle for director Kevin Bellie's production of "Pippin" at Circle Theatre promises "A Bollywood Spectacular." Before the show debuted, there was an uproar in theater blogs about the fact that a mostly white cast would be performing this conceptual fillip on Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's 1972 coming-of-age musical.

By Kerry Reid, Special to the Tribune

November 19, 2012