Show Synopsis:
Prince Pippin is introduced to the audience by the Leading Player and Players and wonders what he should do with his life now that he is well educated. He tries to be a soldier with his father Charles and stepbrother Lewis, but it does not take. His grandmother Berthe suggests pursuing enjoyment and sexual pleasure. Lewis? mother Fastrada tricks Pippin into killing his father to be king, but finds that ruling a kingdom is too difficult for him. The Leading Player revives Charles and Pippin leaves royal life to live with a young woman named Catherine and her son Theo, but cannot find happiness in pastoral life either. He returns to the Leading Player, who coerces him into burning himself to make a statement about life.	

Character:
Pippin, a young prince who is not sure what kind of life he wants to lead to be happy.

Song Context:
Pippin wonders if he will ever find his place in the world and what he is supposed to do.	

Fun Facts:
1) This musical is loosely based on the historical figures Pepin and King Charlemagne, and the Crusades. 
2) Matthew James Thomas was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical when he played Pippin in the 2013 Broadway revival of the musical. In an interview with The Back Lot, he said that ?When I first got hold of the work, he?s written so naive and clueless. He kind of has no idea of the world that?s going on around him. I found myself immediately playing against that as much as I could because otherwise he would feel so one dimensional to me. Then later on in the run, I realized that?s not true to life and that kind of feeling is almost going and fucking your life up. Excuse me, but making all the clichéd mistakes and life errors, finding yourself in situations where you?re almost playing and saying lines that you don?t even really fully believe in or understand why you?re saying. It?s just such a big part of growing up. I think that?s the real crux of what this story is, finding your way back to who you are.? 
3) Composer Stephen Schwartz had the title to this song set before he had any of its lyrics or a melody, because he felt that looking for a corner in the sky was equivalent to Pippin?s quest for something that did not exist in real life. He asked his wife what thing fit somewhere specific, and she responded with ?cats fit on a windowsill."