Michener’s 1947 collection of wartime stories “Tales of the South Pacific,” the musical takes place on ... Kristin Blatchford’s large-scale set design that features a war plane, an Army ...

Scenic design, or set design, is one of the most important ... Cabaret, Love Life, South Pacific, Follies and Company. He was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards and won six. Aronson was inducted ...

Set amid the biggest, most far-reaching conflict in history, “South Pacific” essentially is ... lives up to its advance billing as one of the musical-theater events of the year.

LOS ANGELES — Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of "South Pacific" and ... age of the Hollywood musical, died of natural causes ...

Upon its Broadway premiere in 1949, the musical was an instant hit. “South Pacific” is set during World War II, though the musical primarily focuses on two relationships. The primary ...

Richard Rodgers and Hammerstein set out to write a musical (book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan) based on James A Michener’s Pulitzer-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, which would ...

For a long time, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific had the reputation of being ... soaring 2008 revival of the Pultizer Prize-winning musical at New York's Lincoln Center Theatre.

She danced in her 20s when filming 1958’s “South Pacific,” in which she played Ensign Nellie Forbush in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical ... Mackie went on to design almost 500 costumes ...