Shows · South Pacific · Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 2008
South Pacific, 2008
Opened April 3, 2008
Closed August 22, 2010
996 performances
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Revival
Broadway
Of the productions that opened in the 2000s, this had the 19th longest run.
Other stagings of South Pacific 3 more
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
Creative team
- Director
- Bartlett Sher
- Choreographer
- Christopher Gattelli
Recordings 3 released while this run was on
34 more exist for other runs of this show: see South Pacific for all of them.
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-…
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