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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0886973045725 Format: Cast Recording Label: SONY CLASSICS Manufacturer: SONY CLASSICS Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: SONY CLASSICS Release Date: May 27, 2008 Studio: SONY CLASSICS Sales Rank: 322 MPN: 730457 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: 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." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Old Classic Given FaceliftBefore 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 a welcome change from the lax behavior often seen in orchestras with the tubas doing crossword puzzles and absentmindedly listening to the show. ... Read More Rating:  - Rodgers and HammersteinRodgers 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. Rating: - South PacificItem came on time. However, title would not show up on the computer and did not import properly. Rating: - South Pacific CDWe 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! Rating:  - There Ain't Nothin Like the Real ThingAs 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 afraid broadway singing has gone the way of the rest of American culture - into mediocrity. Browse for similar items by category:
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