LCT's SOUTH PACIFIC Comes To OCPAC, Tickets On Sale 8/22

Lincoln Center Theater, in association with Bob Boyett and NETworks Presentations, presents a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, directed by Bartlett Sher. Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC visits the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Segerstrom Hall October 12 - 24 to kick of the Center's
blockbuster 2010-2011 Broadway Series.

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 has created a sold-out sensation on Broadway, 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 will continue its record-breaking run on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street) until August 22.

Visit wwww.SouthPacificMusical.com.

Tickets to see SOUTH PACIFIC start at $20 will go on sale August 22. They will be available online at OCPAC.org, by calling 714.556.2787 and at the Center's Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa.

For inquiries about group ticket discounts, call the Group Services office at 714.755.0236. The TTY
number is 714.556.2746. The 2 p.m. performance on Saturday, October 23 will be sign-language
interpreted.

The Center applauds Wells Fargo and Rutan & Tucker, LLC for their generous support of the Center's 2010-2011 Broadway Series. Cox Communications is the media partner of the Broadway Series.

The National Touring Company of SOUTH PACIFIC will be led by David Pittsinger (Emile de Becque)
and Carmen Cusack (Nellie Forbush). As Emile de Becque, Pittsinger (who performed the role on
Broadway) was hailed as "sincere and vocally thrilling" by the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times said he possesses a "magnificent bass-baritone and innate elegance." The Los Angeles Times declared, "But this South Pacific is to be treasured above all for Cusack, whose interpretation of her character's embarrassment of Rodgers & Hammerstein riches is so stunningly suffused with heart that it was as if I were hearing the songs for the first time. Nellie vainly tries to ‘wash that man right outta' her hair, and watching Cusack helplessly succumb to love's "conventional dither" has to be counted as one of the theatrical highlights of the year.

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- U.S. 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. Become a fan on Facebook (South Pacific on Tour).

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