![]() Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey (USN) - Tristan HaqĮnsign Cora MacRae/French Girl - Brianna ButlerĮnsign Connie Walewska/Nun - Connie Musler* Kenneth Johnson (UMC) - Christian Montoya Petty Officer Hamilton Steeves (UMC) - Mason Lauderdale When Emile unexpectedly returns home, Nellie is overjoyed and agrees to marry.Ĭaptain George Brackett, U.S.N. ![]() Touched by Liat's grief when she learns of her lover's death, Nellie, who imagines that Emile has also died, decides to put aside her prejudice and at least learn to love Emile's children if she can't have their father. The mission is successful, and the intelligence received results in an American victory and the destruction of Japanese convoys, but Cable is killed in the ensuing battle. Although somewhat aware and ashamed of their bigotry, both Cable and Nellie seem prisoners to their social conditioning and believe that they have no real choice in the matter.ĭepressed over his rejected proposal, Emile offers to join Cable on his spy mission behind Japanese lines. When he finally admits that he won't marry a Vietnamese girl, Bloody Mary is furious and drags her distraught daughter away, swearing that she will marry her off to some other man. Meanwhile, Emile and Nellie have become engaged, but when she learns that Emile has children with a dark-skinned Polynesian woman, Nellie's racial prejudice surfaces.Īs Act II opens, the relationship between Liat and Cable is growing more serious, but like Nellie, Cable exhibits some signs of racism, fearing what his friends and family will think if he marries a dark-skinned woman. She had been planning a love match, and it turns out to be a successful one as Cable and Liat quickly fall in love. On the island, Bloody Mary introduces Cable to a young Tonkinese girl, Liat, who turns out to be her daughter. ![]() With nothing else to do, Cable allows Billis to convince him to travel to Bali Ha'i. However, when she bumps in to him unexpectedly, she realizes she can't dump him because she's in love with him and accepts an invitation to meet all of his friends and associates.Ībout this time, Cable, who needs to run reconnaissance on a nearby Japanese-held island, approaches Emile for help, but the plantation owner refuses and Cable is told to go on leave until he is able to continue his mission. Nellie, on the other hand, has been reconsidering her relationship with Emile and decides to break up with him. A middle-aged grass skirt seller nicknamed "Bloody Mary," one of the few women on the island, takes an immediate interest in Cable. marine, Lieutenant Joe Cable, arrives on the island undercover on a dangerous spy mission crucial to the outcome of the war. One sailor, Luther Billis, hatches a plan to travel to Bali Ha'i, a nearby island where the French plantation owners are believed to have hidden their women. At the same time, the American sailors are growing restless and bored without work and combat to keep them active or women to entertain them in their downtime. The musical opens on a South Pacific island, during World War II, where a naive young Navy nurse from Arkansas, Nellie Forbush, becomes romantically involved with Emile de Becque, a French plantation owner. The score is remarkable, with songs such as "A Cockeyed Optimist", "Some Enchanted Evening", "There is Nothing Like a Dame", "Bali Ha'i", "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair", I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy", "Younger Than Springtime", "Honey Bun" and "This Nearly Was Mine", nearly every one a recognizable and beloved part of American music. Additionally, the 2008 Broadway revival of South Pacific was nominated for eleven Tony Awards, winning seven. ![]() South Pacific was the biggest selling album of the 1940's. ![]() Despite the fact that the original Broadway cast album did not come out until mid-1949, The original Broadway production won ten Tony Awards, including all four acting awards (Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, Myron McCormick, and Juanita Hall), and won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama in its own right. It is considered by most critics to be among the greatest musicals of the twentieth century. Michener, entitled Tales of the South Pacific, which dealt largely with the issue of racism. THE story for Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 musical, South Pacific, is drawn from the 1947 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by James A. Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Directed by Jim Wadzinski Based on a book written by Joshua Logan, Oscar Hammerstein II ![]()
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