Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #296 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording

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

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.

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.

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. And embarassingly the male ingenue sounds as if he's thinking about another sailor instead of an exotic beauty. Buy the original recording and be delighted; lei's stop praising mediocrates.