Shows · South Pacific · Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 2008
The run closed August 22, 2010
- Opened
- April 3, 2008
- Closed
- August 22, 2010
- Performances
- 996
- Previews
- Unknown
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 19th 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 | Majestic Theatre Revival · Joshua Logan | 1,925 perf. |
| 1949 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1988 | Prince of Wales Theatre Original |
Who was in it53 named
Kelli O Hara
Laurissa Romain
Skipp Sudduth
Noah Weisberg
Becca Ayers
Genson Blimline
Charlie Brady
Matt Caplan
Christian Carter
Helmar Augustus Cooper
Jeremy Davis
Margot de la Barre
Christian Delcroix
Laura Marie Duncan
Mike Evariste
Laura Griffith
Maryann Hu
Garrett Long
Nick Mayo
George Merrick
Kimber Monroe
Emily Morales
Jerold E Solomon
Ana Maria Andricain
Lamae Caparas
Todd Cerveris
Branch Fields
Rob Gallagher
Murphy Guyer
Deborah Lew
Peter Lockyer
Liz Mccartney
Alfie Parker Jr
Jason Michael Snow
Lucia Spina
Matt Wall
17 of these 53 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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
- Bartlett Sher
- Choreographer
- Christopher Gattelli
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.
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
South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances. The plot is based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific and combines elements of several of those stories. Rodgers and Hammerstein believed they could write a musical based on Michener's work that would be financially successful and, at the same time, send a strong progressive message on racism. The plot centers on an American nurse stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II, who falls in love with a middle-…
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 photograph of this staging.
- 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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