He’s also one of those lucky performers who has great but quiet presence. ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ in particular is sung with perfect gravitas. It is like a sudden Arctic chill blows through the theatre.Īs Emile, Julian Ovenden is a fine actor with an equally fine, powerful voice. That she is so engaging and warm, so sweet-natured, makes the shock when we discover her prejudices all the greater. Gina Beck’s Nellie is perfectly pitched as outwardly robust but inwardly initially rather naive. In one of the show’s less well-known numbers, ‘You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught’, sung by Lt Cable, they make the point that attitudes are learned not born with. But Rodgers and Hammerstein don’t stop there. It hits you squarely between the eyes and makes you question how you could have been so taken in. That makes the sudden unveiling of Nellie’s racist tendencies comes like a bolt from the blue. The underlying issues may be inescapable, but Director Daniel Evans largely tackles them with a light touch. Gina Beck (centre, as Nellie) and company in South Pacific Photo Johan Persson The narrator Joe Cable, writing to a woman he loves, analogizes his chronic itchiness to his and his comrades’ itches for sex, combat, and domination. It’s hugely entertaining with several rip-roaring big numbers in amongst its solos. The music is gorgeous, the set is fabulous, there’s romance and real, fully-fleshed out characters everywhere you look. This Chichester Festival Theatre production of South Pacific is far from a sermon, however. Both Nellie and Joe Cable have a hard time coping with their own racial prejudices Joe loves Liat, yet cannot marry her because she is Tonkinese Nellie loves. A side-story deals with Lt Joseph Cable, a Princeton graduate on what amounts to a suicide mission, and his falling for Liat, daughter of the farouche camp-follower Bloody Mary, but who he sees as beneath him. Nellie Forbush, a nurse, falls in love with Emile de Becque, a French plantation owner, but rejects him when she discovers he has two children by a local woman, now dead.
South Pacific tells of US forces occupying a Polynesian island during World War Two. Less well-known, I suspect, is the story behind them. Some of the songs are very familiar: ‘Some Enchanted Evening’, ‘Bali Hai’, ‘There is Nothin’ Like a Dame’, ‘I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair’, ‘Younger Than Springtime’.
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They are joined by David Birrell as Captain George Brackett, Stephen John Davis as Commander William Harbison, Antoine Murray-Straughan as Stewpot, Charlie Waddell as Professor and Olly Christopher as Sergeant Johnson.įeaturing a full orchestra, this ravishing musical is set to be the must-see theatrical event of the year.īoasting one of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most memorable scores, this much-loved Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical features songs such as Some Enchanted Evening, I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair and Bali Ha’i.Julian Ovenden (Emile) and Gina Beck (Nellie) in South Pacific Photo Johan Persson Lee Ross is announced as Luther Billis, Julian Ovenden as Emile de Becque alongside Gina Beck as Ensign Nellie Forbush, Rob Houchen as Lieutenant Joseph Cable, Joanna Ampil as Bloody Mary and Sera Maehara as Liat. This powerful love story, set on a South Pacific island during World War ll, is brought thrillingly to life in an epic new five-star production directed by Chichester Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director Daniel Evans. Instead, Biden will return to Washington on Sunday (US time) as Democrats and Republicans attempt to hammer out a deal.
MichenerĮxperience the critically acclaimed, landmark production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific direct from the West End. Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua LoganĪdapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A.
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