In a passage in the first act, for example, Pippin (Matthew James Thomas) liberally sows his oats.

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That would be Matthew James Thomas, the young British actor who played Peter Parker several times a week in the original company of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, " as a backup to Reeve Carney.

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