Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
 | The New Broadway CastBy Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Kelli O'Hara, Paolo Szot, Matthew Morrison, Loretta Ables Sayre, Danny Burstein SONY CLASSICS, 2008, Audio CD Customer Rating: 72 reviews Recommend |
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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."
- Act 1. Overture
- Act 1. Dites-moi
- Act 1. A cockeyed optimist
- Act 1. Twin Soliloquies
- Act 1. Some Enchanted Evening
- Act 1. Bloody Mary
- Act 1. There is Nothin' Like a Dame
- Act 1. Bali ha'i
- Act 1. My Girl Back Home
- Act 1. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
- Act 1. Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening
- Act 1. A Wonderful Guy
- Act 1. Reprise: Bali ha'i
- Act 1. Younger than Springtime
- Act 1. Reprise: Wonderful Guy
- Act 1. This is How It Feels
- Act 1. Finale Act 1
- Act 2. Entr'acte
- Act 2. Happy Talk
- Act 2. Reprise: Younger Than Springtime
- Act 2. Honey Bun
- Act 2. You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
- Act 2. This Nearly Was Mine
- Act 2. Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening
- Act 2. Reprise: Honey Bun
- Act 2. Finale Ultimo
Title: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (The New Broadway Cast)
Sales Rank: 321 in Music
Creator: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Kelli O'Hara, Paolo Szot, Matthew Morrison, Loretta Ables Sayre, Danny Burstein
Label: SONY CLASSICS, 2008-05-27, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Format: Cast Recording
Package Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches, 0.25 pounds
- Old Classic Given Facelift
- Before going to NYC in the spring I was least excited to see the musical South Pacific. Remembering only the low-quality film version I had seen as a child I thought the musical would be dull. I could not have been more wrong. The musical echoes of classic Broadway with an outstanding pit orchestra dressed to the nines in tuxedos and black dresses, it was… More reviews
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- Rodgers and Hammerstein forever. There music never gets old or dated. New voices with new interpretations provide a wonderful ride down memory trail. You have to force yourself not to sing along, you know the words to all of the songs; however,you cannot do justice to these performances.… More reviews
- South Pacific
- Item came on time. However, title would not show up on the computer and did not import properly.… More reviews
- South Pacific CD
- We felt as if we were in the theater again. Fine sound, and even some connecting dialog. So enjoyable that I am going to buy another one! More reviews
- There Ain't Nothin Like the Real Thing
- As smooth a production as this current version is, even the Tony award winning Paulo Szot and perfect technique of Kelly O'Hara can't match the vocal beauty and excitement of the original cast. Of course the music is timelessly great but the woman who sings Bloody Mary doesn't capture the native sounding joy of the original. Ho-hum. I'm… More reviews
