South Pacific - New York  

November 7, 2009

Saturday 2:00pm

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South Pacific

Winner of FOUR Outer Critics Circle Awards 2008 including
Outstanding Revival of a Musical

"this South Pacific recreates the unabashed, unquestioning romance that American theatergoers had with the American book musical in the mid-20th century...Yet the show feels too vital to be a museum piece, too sensually fluid to be square."
Ben Brantley, New York Times

Lincoln Center Theater presents the iconic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, which is returning to the New York scene in its first-ever Broadway revival.

South Pacific concerns the lives of U.S. military men, nurses and the residents of the Polynesian island they occupy during World War II. Nurse Nellie Forbush is "In Love With a Wonderful Guy," a French planter with small children.

Clean-cut Lt. Cable has fallen hard for Bloody Mary's daughter Liat. And the seabees, sailors and marines will tell you that there is "Nothing Like a Dame." The show's gorgeous score also includes "Cockeyed Optimist," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Younger Than Springtime," "Honey Bun" and "This Nearly Was Mine."

Creative:
Bartlett Sher (Direction) [Tony Award Winner]
Michael Yeargan (Set Design) [Tony Award Winner]
Catherine Zuber (Costume Design) [Tony Award Winner]
Donald Holder (Lighting Design) [Tony Award Winner]
Scott Lehrer (Sound Design) [Tony Award Winner]
Ted Sperling (Musical Direction)
Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by: Richard Rodgers
Book by: Joshua Logan and Oscar Hammerstein II

Cast:
Kelli O'Hara as Nellie
Paulo Szot as Emile [Tony Award Winner]
Loretta Ables Sayre as Bloody Mary
Matthew Morrison as Lieutenant Cable
Danny Burstein as Luther Billis