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South Pacific, 1949

Opened April 7, 1949

Closed January 16, 1954

1,925 performances

Majestic Theatre

Revival

Broadway

10 Tony Awards

South Pacific, 1949
Souvenir programme for South Pacific, p. 9

Of the productions that opened in the 1940s, this had the 2nd longest run.

Other stagings of South Pacific 3 more

1949
ProductionLondon
1988
Prince of Wales TheatreLondon Original
2008
Vivian Beaumont TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Bartlett Sher
996 performances

Who was in it101 named

Mardi Bayne
Evelyn Colby
Michael de Leon
Noel de Leon
Bill Dwyer
Dickinson Eastham
Don Fellows
William Ferguson
Jacqueline Fisher
Jack Fontan
Alan Gilbert
Thomas Gleason
Jim Hawthorne
Richard Loo
Roslynd Lowe
Barbara Luna
Gloria Meli
Henry Michel
Alex Nicol
Pat Northrop
Mary Ann Reeve
Bernice Saunders
Helena Schurgot
Richard Silvera
Eugene Smith
Musa Williams
Chin Yu
George Britton
Roger Rico
Fabian Acosta
Leigh Allen
George Armand
Sidney Armus
Jack Cassidy
Dort Clark
Helen Clayton
Cristanta Cornejo
Robert Cortazal
Donald Covert
Rosalina Davila
Dolores Decin
William Diehl
Elizabeth Early
Pat Finch
Betty Gillett
Katherine Graves
Thomas Griffin
Dody Heath
Steve Holland
Joan Kavanagh
Kermit Kegley
Peter Kelley
Mimi Kelly
Don Leslie
Karen Lewis
Christina Lind
Roberta Macdonald
Don Maclaughlin
Patricia Marand
Virginia Martin
Dorothy Maruki
Melle Matthews
Merle Muskal
Betty O Neil
Virginia Paris
Jose Perez
Albert Popwell
Dorothy Richards
Robert Rippy
Bartlett Robinson
Orlando Rodriguez
Steve Roland
Gene Saks
Irma Sandre
Jean Shore
Peter Smith
Maria Suarez
Bill Thunhurst
Webb Tilton
Bunny Warner
Jack Weston
Billie Worth
Shirley Jones

Creative team

Director
Joshua Logan
Producer
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II, Leland Hayward & Joshua Logan

Tony Awards 10 from 10 nominations

Best Musical
Won

Recordings 2 released while this run was on

1949
South Pacific (1949 original Broadway cast) Columbia A-850, released 1949
United States
1949
South Pacific (1949 original Broadway cast) Columbia Masterworks ML 4180, released May 9, 1949
United States

35 more exist for other runs of this show: see South Pacific for all of them.

Around this production

A hundred and one pounds of fun. In South Pacific.South Pacific

Two Georgia legislators introduced a bill to outlaw "You\'ve Got to Be Carefully Taught," calling it Communist propaganda. Hammerstein refused to remove it, saying the entire show was built around that message.

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