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| 2008-04-26 14:38:56 | Amazon.com: The landmark musical's first-ever Broadway revival! The curtain rang down on Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific in 1954 after five years of extraordinary acclaim and countless awards including nine Tonys and a Pulitzer. Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize winning book Tales of the South Pacific, the musical is set on a tropical island during World War II and tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples - U.S. Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Marine Joe Cable and a young local native girl Liat - and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of the war and by their own prejudices. Considered by many the finest musical ever written, the score's songs include such musical theater classics as "Some Enchanted Evening," "Younger Than Springtime," "Bali Ha'i," "There is Nothin' Like a Dame" and "A Wonderful Guy." |
| Rodolfo 2008-05-29 18:27:28 | Trude Ritman's name is misspelled as "Ritmann" on the packaging. |
| Rodolfo 2008-05-30 00:58:38 | Rather, Trude Rittman's name is misspelled "Rittmann" on the packaging. |
| stevie 2008-06-01 21:03:52 | A pre-releasse review CD of this title also includes an additional track, "Thanksgiving Follies", not included on either the Barnes & Noble or general release CDs. |
| nicwilly 2008-06-22 17:03:35 | If this is the first-time ever Broadway revival of this show, how come there is a 1967 Broadway recording of the show with Florence Henderson? |
| Geoconno 2008-06-22 17:39:35 | The 1967 recording with Florence Henderson and Giorgio Tozzi played at the State Theater at Lincoln Center and was not considered a Broadway engagement. Neither was the 1987 New York City opera production (also at the State Theater at Lincoln Center) nor the four productions at the New York City Center. So, despite the six (seven the Reba McEntire/Brian Stokes Mitchell concert at Carnegie Hall is included) previous major New York City productions, the current production is the first to be considered an "official" Broadway revival for the purposes of the Tony Awards. |
| Geoconno 2008-06-22 17:44:23 | Correction: The 1967 recording with Florence Henderson and Giorgio Tozzi is from a production that played at the State Theater at Lincoln Center and was not considered a Broadway engagement. Neither was the 1987 New York City opera production (also at the State Theater at Lincoln Center) nor the four productions at the New York City Center. So, despite the six (seven if the Reba McEntire/Brian Stokes Mitchell concert at Carnegie Hall is included) previous major New York City productions, the current production is the first to be considered an "official" Broadway revival for the purposes of the Tony Awards. |
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