South Pacific
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South Pacific by Rogers And Hammerstein
With Rodgers composing the music and Hammerstein adding the lyrics, five of their shows, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, have become iconic Musicals, outstanding successes representing the genre.
South Pacific at the Barbican Theatre, London
The Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater production of South Pacific comes to the Barbican theatre.
This production of South Pacific, which won seven Tony Awards and sold out on Broadway for two years, features a cast of 40 and a live orchestra of 25. It was described by the New York Times as “Rapturous and revelatory”, while the Washington Post called it “The best Rodgers and Hammerstein in a generation.”
This international hit landmark production of South Pacific, which is directed by Bartlett Sher, plays at the Barbican theatre for a strictly limited seven-week London season from opening night 12th August 2011 until 01 Oct 2011
South Pacific Theatre Breaks
Opening Night was the 23rd August 2011 with previews from 15 August 2011. The Lincoln Center’s Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific opened at the Barbican Theatre ahead of a UK tour, starring Samantha Womack and Paulo Szot.
South Pacific Tour of UK
London stage vet Daniel Koek joins as Lt. Cable and previously rumored EastEnders star Samantha Womack will play Ensign Nellie Forbush. South Pacific will run at London's Barbican Theatre from August 15 until October 1, when it will embark on a UK tour
Ex-EastEnders actress Samantha Womack will play Nellie Forbush and Tony winner Paulo Szot is set to reprise his Lincoln Center role as Emile de Becque in the tour of South Pacific which opens at the Barbican Centre on 15th August.
Daniel Koek who is playing Anatoly the Russian in Craig Revel Horwood's tour of Chess the musical is playing Lt Cable and the brilliant Loretta Ables Sayre will come to London reprise Bloody Mary.
Samantha Womack returns to the stage for the first time since Michael Grandage’s 2005 production of Guys and Dolls playing nurse Nellie Forbush. Womack’s previous stage credits include Peter Hall’s Betrayal, and Up ‘n’ Under written and directed by John Godber as well as extensive television work.
Tony Award winner Paulo Szot reprises his Broadway performance as Emile de Becque. The Brazilian operatic baritone made his Broadway debut in Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center production, and visits London professionally for the first time with South Pacific. Szot alternates with Welsh National Opera’s Jason Howard who take the role from 29 August to 21 September.
Bartlett Sher won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his direction of South Pacific, which went on to win six other Tony Awards. Resident director at the Lincoln Center he told this morning’s press launch it was as pleasure to be bringing a show to London just as the National Theatre’s War Horse was commencing its Broadway season at the venue.
South Pacific in London?
Harold Panter, head of the Ambassador Theatre Group said:
“We are going to be bringing over the Lincoln Centre’s wonderful production of South Pacific – extraordinary moving piece of work, basically about men at war,” he says. Only with some nice songs? “Mr Hammerstein and Mr Rodgers knew a thing or two about creating wonderful music, yes, but the core of it is that it is about something. It is wrong to lump all musicals together.”
However it seems there is a problem. If we are to see the lavish Lincoln Centre production complete with huge orchestra rather than the smaller touring production the show will need to go into one of the largest London theatres and none of them are free for the foreseeable future.
Enjoy the whole of a small screen version of the Lincoln Centre production:
