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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
Sales Rank: 163
Studio: SONY CLASSICS
Disc 1:- Overture
- Dites-Moi
- A Cockeyed Optimist
- Twin Soliloquies
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Bloody Mary
- There is Nothin' Like a Dame
- Bali Ha'i
- My Girl Back Home
- I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
- Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening
- Wonderful Guy
- Reprise: Bali Ha'i
- Younger Than Springtime
- Reprise: a Wonderful Guy
- This is How It Feels
- Finale Act I
- Entr'acte
- Happy Talk
- Reprise: Younger Than Springtime
- Honey Bun
- You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
- This Nearly Was Mine
- Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening
- Reprise: Honey Bun
- Finale Ultimo
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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: 
Rating:  - South Pacific CD
We 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 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: - 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:  - 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: - 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
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