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	Great Performances . "South Pacific" in Concert from Carnegie Hall . Essay . A New Challenge for Two Not-So-New ...
		These tales were set in a foreign land and, while most of the characters were American, they were reacting to situations that were far from homespun.
		Another anomaly about "South Pacific" is that it was the first (and one of the few) Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals written for established stars.
		"South Pacific" is the first (and remains one of the very few) musicals to draw its emotional power not merely from a love story, but from a cruel, unbending inner doubt.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/southpacific/essay1.html (637 words)

	South Pacific
		South Pacific is a musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, first performed in 1949.
		The musical is based on some short stories by James A. Michener, entitled Tales of the South Pacific.
		The original cast included Mary Martin, who created the role of the heroine, Nellie Forbush, and opera star Ezio Pinza[?], for whom the part of Emile de Becque was specially written.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/South_Pacific.html (211 words)

	Tales of the South Pacific - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of short stories written by James A. Michener in 1946 based upon his observations while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides islands (now known as Vanuatu).
		The stories about World War II in and surrounding the Pacific Islands Coral Sea are interconnected by recurring characters and several loose plot lines (the Solomon Islands campaign and a fictitious amphibious invasion) but focus on interactions between Americans and a variety of colonial, immigrant and native characters.
		South Pacific was also followed by a series of movies and TV shows about sailors in the Pacific who were stranded on islands like John F. Kennedy's PT-109, including the pilot and TV series McHale's Navy, the movie PT-109, and Gilligan's Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tales_of_the_South_Pacific (276 words)

	James A. Michener - More Tales of the South Pacific
		And that, Tales of the South Pacific, wasn't a hit until it became the catalyst for the blockbuster Broadway musical, South Pacific.
		In the musical South Pacific, Nellie Forbush, the nurse from Little Rock, and Emile De Becque, the fugitive from Marseilles, conducted their love affair here, while Bloody Mary, the sharpminded Tonkinese conspirator, gave us a foretaste of how difficult it would be for American troops to conquer her resilient people in Vietnam.
		In my latest return to the South Pacific, I saw not only the magical islands that have always captivated wanderers, but also the two native groups that have made these islands such treasures in modern life when individualism so often gives way to conformity.
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	Jack London at the Huntington Library-Tales from South Pacific
		As he did with his stories of the cold, cruel Klondike, London used the tropical settings of the South Pacific to explore some of the same themes concerning human conflict and the most fundamental forces of nature.
		The tale is a story of an individual's fundamental struggle for survival and freedom.
		The tales include "Koolau the Leper," "Good-by Jack," and "The Sheriff of Kona," which deal frankly and sympathetically with the taboos of leprosy; "Chun Ah Chun," the story of a Chinese man displaced by the unyielding encroachments of western ways of life; and "The House of Pride" and "Aloha Oe," which criticize racial intolerance.
	www.huntington.org /LibraryDiv/pacific.html (535 words)

	Great Performances . "South Pacific" in Concert from Carnegie Hall \| PBS
		Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Rodgers and Hammerstein's own Pulitzer Prize-winning blockbuster was a landmark of post-World War II Broadway, a provocative romantic drama that beguiled audiences with a hit parade of instant standards.
		Although its first Broadway revival will not occur until the 2007-08 season (when it is presented by Lincoln Center Theater), "South Pacific" has lived on in thousands of productions, both professional and amateur, over the years, as well as in two movie versions.
		Learn why "South Pacific" had to be a hit for the duo and the difficulties they encountered in presenting the controversial theme at the heart of the musical in the essay by contributor Thomas Hischak.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/southpacific (320 words)

	TIME Pacific Journey \| Tales of the South Seas \| August 20-27, 2001 \| NO. 33
		The stories of the south pacific are many, exotic and romantic.
		Greater than the other seas combined, larger than the earth's land area, the Pacific guards its mysteries against the probing of science and exploration: in places its floor lies as distant from its surface as the airliners that fly overhead.
		More than 200 years ago the French encyclopedist Denis Diderot alerted the Pacific islanders to the perils of European civilization: "One day, under their rule," he warned, "you will be almost as unhappy as they are." There are challenges today more daunting than any he foresaw; dangers, indeed, worse than any conceived by nature.
	www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20010820/talesss.html (591 words)

	SOUTH PACIFIC - Naples Dinner Theatre :-: Naples, Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The tale of SOUTH PACIFIC is as fascinating as the "tales" that inspired it.
		SOUTH PACIFIC received the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and for the first time the committee included a composer (Richard Rodgers) in that citation.
		This tale of the South Pacific, taken out of the living world and crystallized into theatrical form, was offered back to the living world for approval.
	www.naplesdinnertheatre.com /show26.htm (1194 words)

	South Pacific News
		South Pacific News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		IT'S a tale of the South Pacific James Michener could never have imagined: Australian warships off the coast of Fiji and high noon in Suva between the Australian federal officer locals call James Bond, and the...
		James Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific," translated into a stirring, romantic and humorous musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, will open the season for the Runyon Repertory at 7 p.m.
	www.topix.net /movies/south-pacific (605 words)

	Amazon.ca: South Pacific: Vocal Selections - Revised Edition: Books: Hal Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		While the musical South Pacific has won a permanent place in American culture, a prose adaptation appears an odd choice for a children's book.
		Bestselling author Michener retells the story of the play, which is drawn from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific.
		The musical is based on two of the stories in Tales of the South Pacific (Macmillan, 1944), Michener's honest, gritty portrayal of life on the islands during World War II.
	www.amazon.ca /South-Pacific-Vocal-Selections-Revised/dp/0881881155 (706 words)

	South Pacific - Tom Fulton as Emile de Becque
		In the Michener book “Tales of the South Pacific” Nellie Forbush arrives on the island of Efate, which sits in the southern group of the New Hebrides.
		In the Pacific, where most of the construction work was needed, the Seabees landed soon after the Marines and built major airstrips, bridges, roads, gasoline storage tanks, and quonset huts for warehouses, hospitals, and housing.
		South Pacific changed all of that for me and catapulted the ‘musical' back into my wish list of professional aspirations.
	www.tomfulton.com /southpacific.htm (3950 words)

	Introduction to the South Pacific: 30 Days in the South Pacific - Pacific Islands, Pacific Islands, Pacific Islands ...
		James Michener's imaginary paradise, for example, Bali Hai in Tales of the South Pacific, might be thought of as a recasting of Shangri La in an oceanic setting.
		Michener's tale was so compelling that even though it was a fictional account, Bali Hai was and has been claimed by many island groups as their own.
		Stevenson may have had little inkling that among these "thousands of persons" scattered across the South Pacific some 1200 languages were once spoken, a full third of the world's language repository.
	www.bootsnall.com /articles/06-08/introduction-to-the-south-pacific-30-days-in-the-south-pacific-pacific-islands.html (1273 words)

	Tale of the South Pacific. A Motorcycle Holiday downunder
		Touring this distant South Pacific island by bike is not really an adventure, unless you count riding on the left as being adventurous, but it is a very beautiful place, with beautiful roads.
		Leaving the fertile plains of the east coast, we headed over Burke Pass to the central valleys, where flocks of Romney sheep hold sway and the snow-capped peaks of the Southern Alps were glimpsed on the distant horizon.
		Look at your map of the world; the South Island lies roughly 40 to 46 degrees south, which puts it about as far south of the equator as New England or Oregon are to the north.
	www.beachs-mca.com /articles/rider/tale_of_spacific.htm (1675 words)

	The Prehistoric Pacific
		While Gifford was not the first to practice modern archaeology in the South Pacific, he was among the vanguard of serious postwar archaeological investigators.
		Stated simply, scholarly thought about Pacific prehistory after World War II was based on a belief in a shallow depth of time, reliance on an outdated cultural framework for research and interpretation, and an acceptance of isolation as the defining feature of life.
		Instead of looking at the islands as remote, undeveloped human colonies scattered across a vast and empty expanse of sea, scholars are now discovering that the Pacific was an early sphere of human accomplishment, on land and sea, where the ocean was more an avenue for exchange and diffusion than a barrier to human affairs.
	archaeology.org /9811/abstracts/pacific.html (1729 words)

	eBay - south pacific tales, Antiquarian Collectible, Fiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by JAMES A. Tales of the South Pacific; James A. Michener~1967~PPBK
		Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener PB 1958
		Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener 1964 PB
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	Amazon.com: South Pacific: DVD: Rossano Brazzi,Mitzi Gaynor,John Kerr (II),Ray Walston,Juanita Hall,France Nuyen,Russ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I first saw South Pacific when it was released in 1958 at the age of 10, and remember being totally overwhelmed by the orchestrations, performances and photography.
		Of all of the criticism one hears of South Pacific, to me the most puzzling is the bashing of Mitzi Gaynor, who to me is not only excellent but perfection in the role.
		The music of SOUTH PACIFIC is so magical and irresistable that it overcomes many of the problems with the film.
	www.amazon.com /South-Pacific-Rossano-Brazzi/dp/6305320837 (2841 words)

	Amazon.com: Tales of the South Pacific: Books: James A. Michener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
		Michener's emphasis is on the individuality, humor, valor, and idiosyncrasies of the men and women who populated the bases and combat units of the Pacific campaign.
		As anyone who has seen the musical "South Pacific" (based on a part of this book) knows, it includes the island natives and expatriates who happened to live in the places where the war was taking place.
	www.amazon.com /Tales-South-Pacific-James-Michener/dp/0449206521 (1728 words)

	Tales of the South Pacific Summary / Study Guide
		Lieutenant Tony Fry, who appears in nine of the nineteen tales, is one of the most anti-authoritarian of the American characters in Tales of the South Pacific.
		Readers meet Fry in the first tale, "The South Pacific," when Admiral Millard Kester orders Fry to remove from the side of his old TBF the twelve painted beer bottles illustrating Fry's twelve "heroic" beer-ferrying missions.
		In the tale "Mutiny," which takes place on Norfolk Island, Fry becomes involved with a descendant of one of history's best known mutineers, Fletcher Christian.
	www.enotes.com /tales-south-qn (162 words)

	DVD.net : South Pacific - DVD Review
		Or, in South Pacific, to Carefully Taught, a bitter attack on racial prejudice.
		But a lot of South Pacific is richly overdone, and you have to accept that to love it.
		South Pacific has an ace up its sleeve - it boasts one of the greatest songs ever written for the stage, Some Enchanted Evening, made famous in its Broadway version by the great Italian baritone Ezio Pinza.
	dvd.net.au /goto.cgi?http://www.dvd.net.au/review.cgi?review_id=2548 (1154 words)

	South Pacific
		South Pacific played two and a half years in London, after which the company went on a tour that lasted another year and a half.
		The name "South Pacific" was licensed for cosmetics, dresses and lingerie.
		In addition to all this, South Pacific received most of the coveted awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Award as the season's best musical, seven Antoinette Perry and nine Donaldson Awards.
	www.theatrehistory.com /american/musical012.html (1270 words)

	South Pacific (musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article entitled South Pacific (1958 film).
		It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article entitled South Pacific (2001 film).
		The 1958 film was one of a series of dramas and comedies based on U.S. Navy sailors in the Pacific Theater, beginning, perhaps, with the earlier Caine Mutiny and Mr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Pacific_(musical) (1615 words)

	Jim's Pond - Exploring the Universe of Ideas
		He began writing his book, Tales of the South Pacific during the second tour.
		- Tales of the South Pacific was published in 1947.
		- Since Tales of the South Pacific was published early in 1947 it was all but forgotten by the time the Pulitzer was awarded for that year.
	radio.weblogs.com /0117808/2003/02/23.html (566 words)

	Amazon.ca: South Pacific (Widescreen): DVD: Joshua Logan,Rossano Brazzi,Mitzi Gaynor,John Kerr (II),Ray Walston,Juanita ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The comic relief tends to fall flat, and an overly spunky Mitzi Gaynor is a poor substitute for the stage original's Mary Martin.
		South Pacific captures the World War II era in the same way that Gone with the Wind captures the Civil War era.
		This version of South Pacific is one of my all time favorite films and no classic film library should be without it.
	www.amazon.ca /South-Pacific-Widescreen-Joshua-Logan/dp/6305320837 (1850 words)

	Musical Cyberspace: South Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener.
		On a South Pacific island during World War II, two little children are playing on the terrace of the home of a rich planter (DITES MOI).
		Tales of the South Pacific Book by James Michener.
	www.geocities.com /joecable1997/sz/southpacific.html (822 words)

	Tales of the South Pacific Study Guide by James Michener: Key Questions
		Tales of the South Pacific evolved out of Michener's own wartime experiences, which may account for its tone of authenticity.
		Knowledge of the war in the South Pacific, especially the United States Navy's actions, would enhance discussion of the book, so it may be a good idea to have someone research the subject or have someone who was there speak to the group about what life was like in the region and era.
		Tales of the South Pacific from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
	www.bookrags.com /shortguide-tales-the-south-pacific/keyquestions.html (207 words)

	South Sea Tales - Jack London - Free Online Library (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I met him first in a hurricane; and though we had gone through the hurricane on the same schooner, it was not until the schooner had gone to pieces under us that I first laid eyes on him.
		He hove to on the port tack, which was the right thing to do south of the Equator, if--and there was the rub--IF one were NOT in the direct path of the hurricane.
		It was a conical canvas bag, the mouth of which was kept open by a huge loop of iron.
	london.thefreelibrary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /South-Sea-Tales/5-1 (7122 words)

	South Pacific Live outdoors at the Tuacahn Ampitheatre
		South Pacific Live outdoors at the Tuacahn Ampitheatre
		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.
		A milestone in the development of the American musical, it also marked the beginning of the most successful partnership in Broadway musical history, and was followed by Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me and Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song and The Sound of Music.
	www.tuacahn.org /south-pacific.html (438 words)

	South Pacific
		Leland Hayward suggested to Joshua Logan, the director of Mister Roberts, that he read Tales of the South Pacific - James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of short stories about American servicemen and locals on a South Pacific island before and during World War II.
		The dramatic content of South Pacific was such that it not only swept the Tony Awards, but also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama - the second of only seven musicals so honoured since 1932.
		South Pacific ran for 1,925 performances on Broadway - the second longest run for a musical at that time.
	www.orpheus-theatre.on.ca /shows/spacific/main.html (221 words)

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