Don't wash that man right out of your Hair

Bring him to the seven-time 2008  Tony Award-winning

Lincoln Center Production of South Pacific

edited by Madelyn Miller, the TravelLady

The first Broadway musical ever to play the Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC begins Tuesday, December 15, 2009 and runs through Sunday, January 3, 2010 for a strictly limited run of only 24 performances. 

The AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Lexus Broadway Series has chosen  the Dallas engagement of the National Tour of The Lincoln Center Theater Production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein’s prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, directed by Bartlett Sher as the first musical production.

Everyone's favorite Musical 

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC swept the 2008 Tony Awards®, winning seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director for Bartlett Sher. This breathtaking new production was lauded by the critics as “Simply Wonderful! Beguiling Theatrical Magic!” (New York Post), “Ravishing and Overwhelming” (Variety) and “Rapturous and Revelatory!” (The New York Times).  The Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC continues its record breaking run on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street).  Visit www.SouthPacificMusical.com.

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 war and by their own prejudices. Considered by many the finest musical ever written, the score’s songs include such classics as “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,” “Younger Than Springtime,” “Bali Ha’i,” “There is Nothin’ Like A Dame,” “This Nearly Was Mine” and “A Wonderful Guy.”

The lavish new production features a cast of 34, musical staging by Christopher Gattelli, sets by Michael Yeargan (winner of the 2008 Tony Award®), costumes by Catherine Zuber (winner of the 2008 Tony Award®), lighting by Donald Holder (winner of the 2008 Tony Award®), sound by Scott Lehrer (winner of the 2008 Tony Award®) and music direction by Ted Sperling.  A full orchestra of 26 members – the largest orchestra of any touring Broadway production – will perform the original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett (winner of a Special 2008 Tony Award®) and dance and incidental music arranged by Trude Rittmann. 
For more information on the production, please visit www.SouthPacificOnTour.com

Casting for limited Dallas engagement

The National Touring Company of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC will be led by Jason Howard (Emile de Becque) and Carmen Cusack (Nellie Forbush), with Anderson Davis (Lt. Cable), Matthew Saldivar (Luther Billis), Keala Settle (Bloody Mary), Gerry Becker (Capt. Brackett), Peter Rini (Cmdr. Harbison), Sumie Maeda (Liat), Rusty Ross (Professor), original 2008 Broadway cast member Genson Blimline (Stewpot), Christina Carrera (Ngana) and CJ Palma (Jerome). 

The ensemble will include Christopher Carl, Eric L. Christian (from the Broadway production), Jacqueline Colmer, Mike Evairste (from the Broadway production), Kate Fahrner, Nicholas Galbraith, Alexis G.B. Holt, Chad Jennings, Christopher Johnstone, Kristie Kerwin, Jodi Kimura, Joe Langworth, Cathy Newman, Diane Phelan, John Pinto Jr, Travis Robertson, Josh Rouah, Tally Sessions, Kristen J. Smith, Matt Stokes, Gregory Williams and Victor Wisehart.
Jason Howard is appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association.  The Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance of this production.

Who's Who

BARTLETT SHER (Director) Lincoln Center Theater: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Awake and Sing (Tony nomination), The Light in the Piazza (Tony nomination). Artistic Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre; credits there include: the world premieres of Prayer for My Enemy and Singing Forest by Craig Lucas (both also Long Wharf Theatre) and Nickel and Dimed; plays by Chekhov, Wilder, Shakespeare, Goldoni and Tony Kushner. Opera: Roméo et Juliette (Salzburg Festival), The Barber of Seville (Metropolitan Opera), Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera and New York City Opera). New York: Cymbeline (2001 Callaway Award for Best Director; first American Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company), Waste (2000 Best Play Obie), Don Juan (all TFANA). He is a member of the TCG Board.
 
JASON HOWARD (Emile de Becque): Born and raised in Wales. Former firefighter. Trained at Trinity and Royal Colleges of Music, London. Early roles in musicals Curly in Oklahoma!, The Ballad Singer in Paul Bunyan and Ravenal in Showboat (RSC production). Lead roles in cast recordings include Showboat, The King and I, A Little Night Music and Calamity Jane. Solo recording of Broadway material "Make Believe" the Hollywood Baritones, a personal tribute Gordon Macrae and Howard Keel.  Opera highlights include: Rigoletto at Scottish Opera; Capt. Brant in Mourning Becomes Electra at the Chicago Lyric, Seattle and New York City Operas; Germont/La Traviata at English National, Minnesota, New York City Operas; Marcello/La Bohème at Covent Garden, Geneva, Paris, Welsh National Opera, Toulouse and Seattle. Most recently Wotan in Wagner's Ring Cycle, Strasbourg. 
 
CARMEN CUSACK (Nellie Forbush) Carmen is from Houston, TX, has spent the last two years playing Elphaba in Wicked (US National tour, Chicago and Australia productions). Her career prior was based in England. Recent West End credits include: Les Misérables (Fantine; UK, US & Shanghai), The Secret Garden (Rose; Royal Shakespeare Company), Personals (Kim), Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Chesty Prospects), Over the Rainbow (Eva Cassidy; UK & Ireland) and The Phantom of the Opera (Christine; UK National Tour). http://www.carmencusack.net/

Tickets

Tickets can be purchased at www.attpac.org/southpacific, by phone at (214) 880-0202, or visit the remote Box Office at Park Place Lexus Plano at 1025 Preston Road.  Ticket prices range from $30.00 to $98.00.

Madelyn Miller is a travel and food writer who has never been to the South Pacific but has enjoyed the musical many times. Read her stories on www.travellady.com, www.carladynews.com, www.yogayaya.com, www.cocktailatlas.com, www.chocolateatlas.com, www.coffeeatlas.com, www.teaAtlas.com