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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886973045725 Format: Cast Recording Label: SONY CLASSICS Manufacturer: SONY CLASSICS Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: SONY CLASSICS Release Date: May 27, 2008 Sales Rank: 134 Studio: SONY CLASSICS
Album Description: 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."
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Rating: - South Pacific
If you saw the Broadway production you must own this soundtrack! Even if you didn't see the show it's a great CD to own!
Rating: - Perfect! Can't play it too many times!
This is what Broadway used to be. My goal is to see this wonderful presentation in New York very soon!
Rating: - Wonderful recording
It has been a long time since Ezio Pinza made the first recording of this wonderful show. This is a great recording and I am hoping to see this production soon.
Rating: - great value .....
This CD is a GREAT value! The sound qualiiy is excellent ..... and there is nothing I can say about the music that has not been said .....
Rating: - thrilling new "South Pacific"
It's hard to believe that SOUTH PACIFIC has never received a Broadway revival since the original 1949 production (not counting a well-received 1967 Music Theater of Lincoln Center staging which starred Florence Henderson). Happily Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical masterpiece returned to the stage this year in an all-new, acclaimed revival. The cast album captures all the magic and excitement which is dazzling audiences nightly at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
Set on the islands during the tail-end of World War II and based on two story fragments from James A. Michener's "Tales of ... Read More
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