The La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment invite you to attend Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Tales of the South Pacific” by James A. Michener. Performances will take place from April 20th through May 13th.
Prepare yourself for some enchanted evening! Rodgers & Hammerstein’s epic musical romance makes its La Mirada Theatre debut! Although well known for its extraordinary score – “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Younger Than Springtime,” “Bali Ha’i,” “There’s Nothin’ Like A Dame,” and “A Wonderful Guy” – South Pacific is also a deeply felt drama. Its portrayal of Americans stationed in a foreign culture in wartime is as relevant today as when it first thrilled audiences in 1949. Don’t miss it here, in all its melodic glory! The New York Times raves “A SHOW OF RARE ENCHANTMENT.”
Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French planter, Emile. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile’s proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he’s fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie. When Emile is recruited to accompany Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe’s life, Nellie realizes that life is too short not to seize her own chance for happiness, thus confronting and conquering her prejudices.
Want a special Broadway show experience? Attend one of La Mirada Theatre’s Audience Talk-Back sessions with the cast on Wednesdays, April 25th and May 9th.
SOUTH PACIFIC is presented through special arrangement with R&H Theatricals.
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VIDEO: From the film version of SOUTH PACIFIC, Luther Billis and the Seabees sing why “There is Nothin’ Like A Dame.”