Simon Hale talks about his Tony Award-winning orchestration on Dylan songs in “Girl from the North County,” which opens at Golden Gate Theatre in S.F.
Sharaé Moultrie and Matt Manuel perform in “Girl From the North Country,” a musical built around the songs of Bob Dylan. It opens in San Francisco Aug. 1.In fact, he wasn’t even all that familiar with the first-tier Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s body of work when he first got the gig to do the orchestrations for “Girl from the North Country,” the award-winning musical built on Dylan songs that visits the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco July 30 through Aug. 18 .
And he wasn’t the only Dylan novice onboard during the early years of the production, which premiered in London in 2017 and made its off-Broadway debut the following year. Penned by Irish playwright Conor McPherson, “Girl from the North County” isn’t a traditional kind of jukebox musical, where an artist’s story unfolds onstage to a soundtrack of big hits — like with “The Cher Show,” “Jersey Boys” and “Tina.” This isn’t the Bob Dylan story, but rather one telling of a fictional family in 1930s-era Duluth, Minnesota set to 28 Dylan tunes.
“He’d say people comment on the records and this version . But sometimes he felt that a more representative, definitive version of a particular song might have been at a some bar when there were three people there — but not necessarily the version you heard on a particularly iconic record.”“I thought that was quite interesting,” he says. “Because actually it really says it’s all about being in the moment – not having to do with status or success or anything else.
He tried to peer into the mindset of Dylan as a young man, having just arrived in New York and starting to make a name for himself one small club gig at a time. In the end, wherever the music took him, Hale just wanted to “be honest, be genuine” and “tell the story.”
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