Book By: Oscar Hammerstein II
Muisc By: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics By: Oscar Hammerstein II
Directed By: Joshua Logan
Music Director: Salvatore Dell'Isola
Choreography By: Joshua Logan
Released By:
Show Status: Closed
Based on: Based on "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener
Movie: 1958 & 2001
Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French planter, Emile. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile's proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he's fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie. When Emile is recruited to accompany Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe's life, Nellie realizes that life is too short not to seize her own chance for happiness, thus confronting and conquering her prejudices.
Mary Martin - Ensign Nellie Forbush
Ezio Pinza - Emile De Beque
Juanita Hall - Bloody Mary
Myron McCormick - Luther Billis
Betta St. John - Liat
Harvey Stephens - Cmdr. William Harbison, U.S.N.
William Tabbert - Lt. Joseph Cable, U.S.M.C.
Martin Wolfson - Captain George Brackett, U.S.N.
Mardi Bayne - Ensign Connie Walewska
Evelyn Colby - Ensign Pamela Whitmore
Michael De Leon - Jerome Alternate
Noel De Leon - Jerome Alternate
Sandra Deel - Ensign Janet MacGregor
Bill Dwyer - Seaman Tom O'Brien
Dickinson Eastham - Seabee Richard West
Don Fellows - Lt. Buzz Adams
William Ferguson - Ensemble
Jacqueline Fisher - Lt. Genevieve Marshall
Jack Fontan - Staff Sgt. Thomas Hassinger
Alan Gilbert - Yeoman Herbert Quale
Thomas Gleason - Sgt. Kenneth Johnson
Jim Hawthorne - Marine Cpl. Hamilton Steves
Richard Loo - Marcel, Henry's Assistant, and Ensemble
Roslynd Lowe - Ensign Dinah Murphy
Barbara Luna - Ngana
Biff McGuire - Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey
Gloria Meli - Ensign Lisa Minelli
Henry Michel - Seabee Morton Wise
Alex Nicol - Ensemble
Pat Northrop - Ensign Sue Yaeger
Mary Ann Reeve - Ensemble
Fred Sadoff - Professor
Bernice Saunders - Ensign Cora MacRae
Archie Savage - Abner
Helena Schurgot - Ensign Bessie Noonan
Richard Silvera - Henry
Henry Slate - Stewpot
Eugene Smith - Ensemble
Beau Tilden - Seaman James Hayes
Musa Williams - Bloody Mary's Assistant
Chin Yu - Ensemble
Overture
Dites-Moi
Cockeyed Optimist, A
Twin Soliloquies
Some Enchanted Evening
Bloody Mary
There Is Nothin' Like A Dame
Bali Ha'i
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair
Wonderful Guy, A
Younger Than Springtime
Happy Talk
Honey Bun
You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
This Nearly Was Mine
This is how it feels
My girl back home
Finale: Dites-moi (reprise)
South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast)
South Pacific (1958 Film Soundtrack)
South Pacific (2001 Television Soundtrack)
South Pacific (1996 Studio Cast) (First Complete Recording)
South Pacific (Royal National Theatre Production - 2001 London Cast)
South Pacific: 1988 London Cast Recording