San Francisco's SHN Hosts 60th Episode of Backstage

SHN has posted the 60th episode of the company's original online podcast series, Backstage, which premiered in July 2006. This marker episode is a significant audio experience recorded during an exclusive interview with Bruce Pomahac, Director of Music for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization. Bruce discusses the extensive and meticulous restoration of the original score prior to the premiere of the new Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC. The podcast also features Bruce at the piano playing important sections of music that no one has heard in 60 years. Click here to listen to this podcast, which is always available at www.shnsf.com.

SHN is launching the National Tour of the landmark version of the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC directed by Bartlett Sher at the Golden Gate Theatre running Sept. 18 through Oct. 25. This new production of the musical classic, which swept the 2007-2008 theater awards, is significant in many respects but most especially that the full original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett have been restored and will be performed by the full orchestra complement originally created for Richard Rodgers.

"What we mean by ‘music restoration' is we want the score to be as close as possible to what the audience heard in the original Broadway production," explains Bruce Pomahac, Director of Music for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization during his podcast interview. "One of the exciting things about this production, and we hear it again and again from people in the audience, is how exciting it is to hear what a musical sounded like in the ‘Golden Age of Musical Theater'," Bruce continues. "The decision on this production of South Pacific was made to use Robert Russell Bennett's complete original orchestration with the full complement of instruments, including all of the underscoring that was written throughout the scenes."

SHN's Backstage podcast series is part of the enhanced creative content available on the company's website, which also includes show videos, mini movies of interviews with members of the creative teams for the shows, and an online E-Magazine, SHNews. Since Backstage premiered in July 2006, every show presented by SHN has had at least one podcast featuring exclusive interviews, backstage and rehearsal visits and other opportunities for SHN audiences to go behind the scenes.

"SHN Backstage is a natural extension of the artistic work we do here," said Carole Shorenstein Hays when the series was initially launched. "As presenters of the Best of Broadway series, we have special access to our creative partners. We want to enhance our patron's experience of the theater we present, and SHN Backstage allows you to hear directly from the artists about the shows as they are working on them. Our website is constantly evolving as we find innovative ways to engage our audience."

To listen to SHN Backstage click on this link: http://shnsfcom/files/podcast/podcasts.htm or find the podcasts on individual show pages on shnsf.com, SHN Backstage podcasts are also available on iTunes and other podcast directories.

Now www.shnsf.com offers multiple video movies on each show page and SHNews,
an E-Magazine, which is constantly updated through RSS feeds.

 

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