While South Pacific, staged in 1949, has a decidedly post-war optimism, it also makes a plea for racial tolerance.
I was born two months before the show's Broadway premiere in April 1949 and had never before seen "South Pacific" on stage.
If you haven't seen South Pacific on stage before (or in a long time), Papermill Playhouse has a decent revival to offer.
But what's most striking about "South Pacific" (first staged on Broadway in 1949) "Gypsy" (1959) and "Sunday in the Park With George" (1984) is how much fuller and juicier they feel than any of the newer musical fare this season.
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Even "Mamma Mia!" — which I can now soberly see was never exactly "South Pacific" on the stage — might have made for a spryer, funnier, more zesty movie.
His minimalist treatment of Stephen Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures," first staged in 2001, opens in London in June.
But Mr. Griffin and Mr. Murray staged "Pacific Overtures," about the opening of Japan to the West, on a square wooden platform surrounded by the audience.
Not so long after Lincoln Center Theater's two-and-a-half-year run of "South Pacific" on its Broadway stage, the Beaumont, it has another welcome occupant, the Tony-winning puppet drama "War Horse," which has grossed more than $35 million in the last 39 weeks.
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("Guys and Dolls," "A Little Night Music," "South Pacific," and his own staging of "Carousel" had been huge hits).
