South Pacific, 1949
Shows · South Pacific · Majestic Theatre, 1949
The run closed January 16, 1954
- Opened
- April 7, 1949
- Closed
- January 16, 1954
- Performances
- 1,925
- Previews
- Unknown
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 2nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of South Pacific 4 more that season
| 1943 | Cort Theatre Original · Lee Strasberg | 5 perf. |
| 1949 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1988 | Prince of Wales Theatre Original | |
| 2008 | Vivian Beaumont Theatre Revival · Bartlett Sher | 996 perf. |
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
30 of these 101 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 71 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Joshua Logan
- Producer
- Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II, Leland Hayward & Joshua Logan
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 10 from 10 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Recordings 37 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against South Pacific, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
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.
- It was the second longest running musical of the decade as well as the second musical to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 167
- Myron McCormick in South Pacific appeared in drag. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 290
- the revue’s original name had been a more commercial one, but unfortunately another show in town was already called South Pacific . However, their revue had much in common with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 52
- “Getting to Know You” was added during the tryout for Anna and the royal wives and children. As “Suddenly Lucky,” it had been intended for Cable to sing to Liat in South Pacific, but was dropped in favor of “Younger Than Springtime.” With a revised lyric, the song became one of the hit songs from The King and I. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 140
- ; and she was Martin’s stand-by in South Pacific and went on for a few performances when Martin took ill. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 185
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 37 recordings of South Pacific document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.
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