South Pacific Broadway Soundtrack Contest![]() The PrizeWin the soundtrack for the Broadway cast recording of South Pacific. The DetailsSony BMG Masterworks proudly announces the upcoming release of the new Broadway cast recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. The CD will be available nationwide on May 27, 2008. Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples -- US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque and Navy Airman 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. Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific premiered at Broadway's Majestic Theatre on April 7, 1949 and enjoyed a five-year run winning countless awards including nine Tony® Awards (among them, Best Musical) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Considered by many to be the finest musical ever written, the score includes such classics as Some Enchanted Evening, Younger Than Springtime, Bali Ha'i, There is Nothin' Like A Dame and A Wonderful Guy. Buy at Amazon.com |
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