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The Story Behind South Pacific
South Pacific is a story based on two short stories taken from the book, Tales of the South Pacific, by James Michener. The musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950. The lyrics are by Oscar Hammerstein II and the music is by Richard Rodgers. South Pacific is considered one of the greatest musicals in history. The Broadway show won all ten Tony Awards that it was nominated for.
South Pacific opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949. Rodgers and Hammerstein produced it, in association with Leland Hayward and Joshua Logan. It ran for more than five years, closing on January 16, 1954 after 1,925 performances.
Act 1 takes place on a South Pacific island during World War II. A U.S. Navy nurse from Arkansas named Ensign Nellie Forbush falls in love with a French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. There are also a group of restless American sailors on the island. It's so boring that Bloody Mary, a middle-aged Tonkinese grass skirt seller, is the girl they love. The entrepreneurial Seabee Luther Billis is the leader of the sailors and takes them to a nearby island, Bali Ha'i. Bloody Mary tells him that is his special island. On the island, Bloody Mary introduces Lt. Joe Cable to her teenage daughter, Liat, and they fall in love. Nellie and Emile and Liat and Joe fall deeper in love and both couples decide to get married. Nellie refuses to marry Emile after she finds out he has biracial children.
In act II of South Pacific, Joe decides he cannot marry Liat because she is Tonkinese. Emile asks Joe why he and Nellie have such prejudices and Joe tells him it's not something you are born with, but rather their upbringings. Emile and Joe go on a dangerous mission behind Japanese lines. Joe is killed and Emile narrowly escapes. In the meantime, Nellie is spending time with Emile's children and learns to overcome her prejudices. Emile comes home to Nellie and learns that she has grown to love his children.
South Pacific is seeing it's Broadway revival in 2008, officially opening on April 3 at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The revival won five Drama Desk Awards and was nominated for 11 Tonys. It won best revival and six other Tonys.