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Souvenir shops printed fake ticket stubs so that those not lucky enough to get real ones could leave them casually on their coffee tables as if they had seen the show. The demand was so intense that Michener himself stood in the wings, and as late as September would tell the columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg that he had seen it only once from out front. Even more than Oklahoma! Virtually every American adult had some palpable connection to World War II, which meant that they also had a natural connection to the show.

If Oklahoma! In the spring of , the show swept every major category at the fourth annual Tony Awards, and on May 1 came the crowning honor: South Pacific won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Purdum; all rights reserved. Copyright renewed. Williamson Music, owner of publication and allied rights throughout the world. International copyright secured.

All rights reserved. Used by permission. From Photofest, digital colorization by Lee Ruelle. Mary Martin center, in blue shorts and cast members in Go Backstage at the Scenes of V. This is hardly the usual Broadway backstory. Maslon does a fascinating job of interconnecting the lives of the four key creators, Michener, Hammerstein, Rodgers and Logan, against the backdrop of the Pacific theater of operations in the Second World War.

He shows how Tales of the South Pacific was neither novel nor short-story anthology—and, at the same time, neither purely fact nor purely fiction. South Pacific has always triggered powerful reactions: In , it nearly inspired a race riot at the Westbury Music Fair in Long Island, of all places, when heroine Nellie Forbush announced that she was from Little Rock—a few weeks earlier, President Eisenhower had sent in troops to Little Rock to enforce integration.

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Your home for all things Broadway. Looking for Broadway plays? Cast and Creative Team. Hammerstein, however, lacked any military experience, and found writing the book problematic.

He brought in Logan, a veteran, as his collaborator and the billing and royalty negotiations among the trio that followed were to prove highly unpleasant. During rehearsals, numerous changes were made to the score. But the most troubled song slot proved to be the one that finally yielded Younger Than Springtime. It went on to run performances and to win a then-record 10 Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

On this recording, they get a chance to have their place in the sun. And they all stand as tribute to a score of melodic richness and lyrical depth that continues to resonate today. On its own, South Pacific still provides an enchanted evening.