Portland Ovations Present Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC, Thru 3/18

Portland Ovations brings NETworks Presentations new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, to Merrill Auditorium through March 18th for its' Portland, Maine debut.  

This new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC is based on the 2008 Tony Award® winning Lincoln Center Theater production, which won seven Tony Awards® including Best Direction of a Musical by Bartlett Sher, Best Lighting Design of a Musical by Portland Stages' Donald Holder and Best Revival of a Musical. 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 war and by their own prejudices." 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."

Tickets for South Pacific range from $45 to $59 for Ovations' Members and $50 to $65 for the general public. Portland Ovations presentations of South Pacific are graciously sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank, New England Coffee and Ocean View at Falmouth with media support provided by WGME 13. To purchase tickets, contact PortTix at 207-842-0800 or visit the box office window at Merrill Auditorium. Tickets are also available online at www.portlandovations.org.