PIPPIN to Play Four-Week San Francisco Run in 2014!

SHN's Founder and President Carole Shorenstein Hays announced that PIPPIN, last night's Tony Award- Winner for BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL, plus 3 more Tony Awards, will be the 5th and final production of SHN's 2013-2014 Season. PIPPIN will play a four-week engagement at the SHN Golden Gate Theatre September 24-October 19, 2014. Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's beloved coming-of-age musical comedy PIPPIN is directed by Tony Award-Winner Diane Paulus, featuring choreography by Chet Walker in the style of Bob Fosse, and circus creation by Gypsy Snider of the Montreal-based circus company Les 7 doigts de la main(also known as 7 Fingers).

Tickets for PIPPIN are currently available by becoming an SHN 2013-2014 Season member. Single tickets will go on sale at a later date.

Royal heir Pippin is spurred forward by a mysterious group of performers to embark on a death-defying journey, determined to find his "corner of the sky." This production ofPIPPIN ran from December 5, 2012 to January 20, 2013 at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) in Cambridge, MA, where Diane Paulus serves as Artistic Director. PIPPINopened April 25, 2013 and is currently running on Broadway. The original production of PIPPIN, directed by Bob Fosse, premiered on Broadway in 1972. It won five Tony Awards and five Drama Desk Awards, and ran for close to 2000 performances before closing in 1977. PIPPIN is noted for many Broadway standards including "Corner of the Sky," "Magic To Do," "Glory," "No Time at All," "Morning Glow," and "Love Song."

PIPPIN received four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Patina Miller), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Andrea Martin), and Best Direction of a Musical (Diane Paulus).

PIPPIN is also the winner of four 2013 Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical (Diane Paulus), Outstanding Choreography (Chet Walker & Gypsy Snider), Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Andrea Martin); the 2013 Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical; and seven 2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical (Diane Paulus), Outstanding Choreographer (Chet Walker), Outstanding Lighting Design (Kenneth Posner), Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Patina Miller), Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Terrence Mann), Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Andrea Martin).

With a book by Roger O. Hirson and music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, PIPPIN features music supervision and arrangements by Nadia DiGiallonardo, orchestrations by Tony Award-winner Larry Hochman, scenic design by Tony Award winner Scott Pask, costume design by Dominique Lemieux, lighting design by Tony Award-winnerKenneth Posner, sound design by Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm.

"A musical miracle! Everything you could dream of in a musical." - New York Daily News

"SENSATIONAL! A THRILLING PIECE OF EYE-POPPING RAZZLE DAZZLE!"- New York Post

"THRILLING & WONDROUS! A DAZZLING VISUAL TREAT! The opening moments of PIPPIN are the MOST THRILLING since the humans and beasts of The Lion Kingspilled down the aisles to the onstage savannah more than 15 years ago." - Bloomberg News

PIPPIN is produced by Barry & Fran Weissler and Howard & Janet Kagan with Lisa Matlin, Kyodo Tokyo, A&A Gordon/Brunish Trinchero, Tom Smedes/Peter Stern, Broadway Across America, Independent Presenters Network, Norton Herrick, Allen Spivak, Rebecca Gold, Joshua Goodman, Steve McManus, David Robbins/Bryan S. Weingarten, Philip Hagemann/Murray Rosenthal, Jim Kierstead/Carlos Arana/Myla Lerner, Hugh Hayes/Jamie Cesa/Jonathan Reinis, SHARON A. CARR/Patricia R. Klausner, Ben Feldman, Square 1 Theatrics, Wendy Federman/Carl Moellenberg, Bruce Robert Harris/Jack W. Batman, Infinity Theatre Company/Michael Rubenstein, Michael A. Alden/Dale Badway/Ken Mahoney.

Tickets to PIPPIN are currently available by becoming an SHN 2013-2014 Season member. New memberships are on sale now at shnsf.com or by calling Audience Services at888-746-1799 (press 2). Single tickets will go on sale at a later date.