Bartlett Sher directs and Christopher Gattelli choreographs the new production starring Kelli O'Hara (as Nellie Forbush) and Paulo Szot (as Emile de Becque). Matthew Morrison, Danny Burstein, Li Jun Li and Loretta Ables Sayre also appear in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.
"Set on a tropical island during World War II," according to LCT, "the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples — US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush & French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Navy Airman Joe Cable & a young local native girl Liat — and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of the war and by their own prejudices."
Here is a glimpse at the production:
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| Paulo Szot | Kelli O'Hara |
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| Li Jun Li and Loretta Ables Sayre |
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| Matthew Morrison and Paulo Szot |
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| Victor Hawks, Danny Burstein and Noah Weisberg | Paulo Szot and Kelli O'Hara |
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| Matthew Morrison and Li Jun Li |
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| Danny Burstein (center) and the cast of South Pacific |
All photos by Joan Marcus.
