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Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (The New Broadway Cast) from: SONY CLASSICS


: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (The New Broadway Cast)
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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
Studio: SONY CLASSICS
Sales Rank: 445
MPN: 730457



Disc 1:
  1. Overture
  2. Dites-Moi
  3. A Cockeyed Optimist
  4. Twin Soliloquies
  5. Some Enchanted Evening
  6. Bloody Mary
  7. There is Nothin' Like a Dame
  8. Bali Ha'i
  9. My Girl Back Home
  10. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
  11. Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening
  12. Wonderful Guy
  13. Reprise: Bali Ha'i
  14. Younger Than Springtime
  15. Reprise: a Wonderful Guy
  16. This is How It Feels
  17. Finale Act I
  18. Entr'acte
  19. Happy Talk
  20. Reprise: Younger Than Springtime
  21. Honey Bun
  22. You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
  23. This Nearly Was Mine
  24. Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening
  25. Reprise: Honey Bun
  26. Finale Ultimo
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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."



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - There Ain't Nothin Like the Real Thing
As 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.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sparkling Performance From Cast and Orchestra!
Great purchase. Surely the most "complete" South Pacific I've ever come across. Kudos to the orchestra, who bring Rodgers score, with ample assistance from orchestrators Robert Russell Bennett and Trude Rittman, a freshness that is only improved by the clear digital sound. Emile is sung with exoticism and clarity, Nellie and Cable with youth and yearning. Well worth the eleven bucks. Even got me to write my first review.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Ho-Hum
It is a sad commentary on the state of American Musical Theatre that the other reviewers praised this tepid effort. One of the magical ingredients of the original mounting was the energy level of every last principal and chorus member. This version puts me to sleep. None of the voices can compare to the origianl; bloody Mary sounds like she just got in from the Bronx. Our heroine's first song should be called "cockeyed sonambulist", her French planter sounds almost like a community theatre singer. ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Something Must Have Gotten Lost
The first Broadway revival of "South Pacific" has been greeted with absolutely ecstatic reviews and a host of awards. I honestly don't think I've seen or read a single negative thing about this production. However, something must have been lost in the translation to CD, because I find this recording to be little more than mildly entertaining.

Musically, there is very little fault to be found with this CD. The performeres all have good (and in the case of Kelli O'Hara and Paolo Szot, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - South Pacific (new Broadway cast)
I bought the CD because I was going to see the play. Both were wonderful. I think they are better than the original. Kelli Ohara not only has a perfect voice but is a terrific actress and you can hear that on the CD. All of the others are fabulous also. The only one not quite as good as the original was Bloody Mary, but I think they were trying to make her less of a caricature and they did succeed in that.

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