SOUTH PACIFIC
 


Nellie, a nurse on a Pacific Island during WWII, falls in love with de Becque, a local planter. However, when she learns he is a widower with 2 half caste kids, she cannot accept the sitution. Meanwhile, Cable falls in love with a Polynesion girl named Liat. Cable and de Bacque go off together on a spy mission and the two women wait in hope of their return.

 

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1950 Tony Award
Best Musical
Libretto
Best Original Score
Best Actor in a Musical
(Ezio Pinza)
Best Actress in a Musical
(Mary Martin)
Best Featured Actor in a Musical
(Myron McCormick)
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
(Juanita Hall)
Producer (Musical)
Best Director
Best Scenic Design

1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

BROADWAY PREMIERE
April 7, 1949, played 1925 performances
 
COMPOSER
Richard Rodgers

LYRICIST
Oscar Hammerstein II

LIBRETTIST
Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan
 
ORIGINAL CAST
Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, Myron McCormick, Juanita Hall, William Tabbert, Betta St. John, Martin Woolfson, Harvey Stephens, Richard Eastham, Henry Slate,
Fred Sadoff, and Archie Savage

DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Joshua Logan
 
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PRODUCTION RIGHTS
R&H Theatricals

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