Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific

• Played three seasons on tour – a total of 791 performances
• Seen by more than 1,000,000 patrons in 105 cities
• Launched in San Francisco in October 2009 and toured through June 2012

Lincoln Center Theater, in association with Bob Boyett and NETworks Presentations, presented a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, directed by Bartlett Sher.

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC swept the 2008 Tony Awards®, winning seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director for Bartlett Sher. Based on James Michener’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.

Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples — US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Navy Airman Joe Cable and a young local native girl Liat — and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices. Considered by many the finest musical ever written, the score’s songs include such classics as “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,” “Younger Than Springtime,” “Bali Ha’i,” “There is Nothin’ Like A Dame,” “This Nearly Was Mine” and “A Wonderful Guy.”