SOUTH PACIFIC

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“Gorgeous! South Pacific doesn’t just float; it soars.”

-   Elysa Gardner, USA Today

Winner of Seven 2008 Tony Awards® Including Best Musical Revival

“SIMPLY wonderful! Theatrical magic! A great staging of a great show, with enough wattage to keep Lincoln Center alight for years.”
  - Clive Barnes, New York Post

“Breathtaking. From the seductive swell of a full orchestra playing the glorious overture through the poignant final tableau of love and reconciliation, this is ravishing theater…”
- David Rooney, Variety

Set on a tropical island during World War II, South Pacific tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples — US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Navy Airman Joe Cable and a young local native girl Liat — and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices.

Considered by many the finest musical ever written, the score’s songs include such musical theatre classics as “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,” “This Nearly Was Mine’,” and “There is Nothin’ Like A Dame.”

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South Pacific for our times

San Francisco KQED’s Michael Krasny interviews  Bartlett Sher, Tony Award winning director of South Pacific. The hour  long interview features musical clips from the production and why the themes in  the classic are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago.

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