South Pacific Exits Broadway

The Tony Award-winning revival of South Pacific plays its final performance at Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre.

Directed by Bartlett Sher, South Pacific is the longest-running revival of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical to ever play Broadway. The production opened on April 3, 2008, starring Kelli O'Hara as Nellie Forbush, opera star Paulo Szot as Emile De Becque (winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance), Matthew Morrison as Lt. Joseph Cable, Danny Burstein as Luther Bills, Loretta Ables Sayre as Bloody Mary and Li Jun Li as Liat. 

In South Pacific, a U.S. Navy nurse falls in love with a local plantation owner on a tropical island in the Pacific during World War II. Featuring music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan, the Lincoln Center production won eight Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical.