Directed by Bartlett Sher
Synopsis:
Bartlett Sher directs a revival of South Pacific, starring Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot. The musical is based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, and features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, and a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. It received the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
NEW YORK TIMES:
" I know we’re not supposed to expect perfection in this imperfect world, but I’m darned if I can find one serious flaw in this production."
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NEW YORK POST:
"SIMPLY wonderful! Bartlett Sher's masterly reinvention of Rodgers & Hammer stein's "South Pacific" opened at the Vivian Beaumont last night with enough wattage to keep Lincoln Center alight for years. "
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"What makes this impeccably acted and designed production so extraordinary is Bartlett Sher's meticulous and dramatic direction. "
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THEATERMANIA:
"While Bartlett Sher's current revival of South Pacific, now at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, is not a perfect realization of the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein-Joshua Logan musical; it's near enough that anyone caviling about its drawbacks for more than 10 seconds is just a spoil-sport. "
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VARIETY:
"From the seductive swell of a full orchestra playing the glorious five-minute overture through the poignant final tableau of love and reconciliation, this is ravishing theater. "
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NY1:
"Younger than springtime it isn't, but director Bartlett Sher's splendid production of “South Pacific” in the Vivian Beaumont Theater has a freshness that renders the nearly 60-year-old treasure almost like new. It's a thoughtful, beautifully executed revival, and fans of musical theatre are likely to find it an “enchanted evening.” "
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NEW YORK SUN:
"Director Bartlett Sher has risen to the challenge, crafting a crisp, sumptuous, unabashedly emotional revival that finds an almost perfect balance between severity and opulence. It is the finest Rodgers and Hammerstein revival since Nicholas Hytner's epochal "Carousel" of 1994 — which may be the finest musical revival to reach Broadway during that time — and it is a tonic for anyone seeking the glories of modern-day stagecraft employed in the service of musical-theater greatness "
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AMNY:
""Grease," "Gypsy" and "Sunday in the Park with George" are receiving strong Broadway revivals, but none is so enchanting as Lincoln Center's revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific." Bartlett Sher's winning production, marking the first Broadway revival of the 1949 musical, is reverential yet freethinking, cinematic yet intimate, militaristic yet romantic."
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