South Pacific
- Episode aired Aug 18, 2010
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Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical performed onstage.Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical performed onstage.Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical performed onstage.
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- TriviaThis PBS filming occurred, as is often the case, toward the end of the show's Broadway run. Original cast member Matthew Morrison, cast as Lt. Cable, had by this time departed, as had first understudy Robert Lenzi. The performance filmed for Live From Lincoln Center features Morrison's second understudy, Andrew Somonsky, who inherited the role toward the end of the run. Somonsky's sullen, somewhat unhinged interpretation of even-keeled, Princeton-educated Joe Cable has made a case for capturing Broadway shows early in their runs for posterity. The same case can be made for Tony-winner Paulo Szot, who had gained considerable weight as the run of the show progressed, which showed on camera.
- ConnectionsVersion of South Pacific (1958)
- SoundtracksSouth Pacific Overture
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Ted Sperling and the Lincoln Center Theater Orchestra
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As fine as the original, and that is very special indeed
This 2008 production of South Pacific, billed as the first Broadway revival, opened to universal acclaim and ran for over two years. Ben Brantley, chief theater critic of the New York Times, called it the closest to perfect musical that he had ever seen.
There are always some dissenters around, which I suppose is better than having complete unanimity all the time. But, although Mary Martin and Mitzi Gaynor were wonderful performers and fine Nellies, Kelli O'Hara does not play second or third fiddle to anyone. To say that she has limited range is to show one's ignorance: she has a degree in opera and was the pupil of noted voice instructor Florence Birdwell. Some years after this role Ms. O'Hara made her Metropolitan Opera House debut in the operetta The Merry Widow to good reviews.
This South Pacific was performed in the Vivian Beaumont theater with a twenty nine piece orchestra playing the original arrangements. The night that I saw it was my finest experience in a theater.
I don't know why no DVD was released even after five years had passed. I believe that those that control Live from Lincoln Center want to keep the productions truly live when viewed. There may have been issues over royalties.
But now that television programs can be taped in high quality on DVRs, there no longer seems much reason not to issue a DVD and make some money.
There are always some dissenters around, which I suppose is better than having complete unanimity all the time. But, although Mary Martin and Mitzi Gaynor were wonderful performers and fine Nellies, Kelli O'Hara does not play second or third fiddle to anyone. To say that she has limited range is to show one's ignorance: she has a degree in opera and was the pupil of noted voice instructor Florence Birdwell. Some years after this role Ms. O'Hara made her Metropolitan Opera House debut in the operetta The Merry Widow to good reviews.
This South Pacific was performed in the Vivian Beaumont theater with a twenty nine piece orchestra playing the original arrangements. The night that I saw it was my finest experience in a theater.
I don't know why no DVD was released even after five years had passed. I believe that those that control Live from Lincoln Center want to keep the productions truly live when viewed. There may have been issues over royalties.
But now that television programs can be taped in high quality on DVRs, there no longer seems much reason not to issue a DVD and make some money.
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