'South Pacific' Performance and CD Signing 6/5

 On June 5, 2008, stars of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will perform selections from the new Broadway Cast Recording as well as participate in a CD signing.  Stars Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot, Matthew Morrison, Danny Burstein, Loretta Ables Sayre will be featured along with guest host Laurence Maslon (author, The South Pacific Companion) at the Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (1972 Broadway @ 66th Street).  Performance set to begin at 5:00 PM, CD signing to immediately follow.  The cast recording is currently available from Sony BMG Masterworks and is produced by David Caddick and David Lai.
 
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 the war and by their own prejudices.
 
The Lincoln Center Theater production of this treasured American musical, directed by Bartlett Sher, has earned 11 Tony® Award nominations and 5 Drama Desk Awards.
 
Tickets to Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific are available now at the Lincoln Center Theater box office (150 West 65 Street), at telecharge.com, or by visiting www.lct.org.
 
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