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KISS ME, KATE Closes At NJPAC
by BWW News Desk - Jul 24, 2011


Talented high school and college-age actors and musicians from across New Jersey will breathe new life into Cole Porter's Tony-award winning musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate this July, this summer's annual musical collaboration between the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and the New Jersey Youth Theatre (NJYT).

KISS ME, KATE Comes To NJPAC 7/15-24
by BWW News Desk - Jul 15, 2011


Talented high school and college-age actors and musicians from across New Jersey will breathe new life into Cole Porter's Tony-award winning musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate this July, this summer's annual musical collaboration between the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and the New Jersey Youth Theatre (NJYT).

The Sound of Music Returns to Pittsburgh CLO July 19-31
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jul 5, 2011


Audiences of all ages will fall in love with Pittsburgh CLO's production of The Sound of Music, July 19-31 at the Benedum Center. T

Single Tix Now Available for Manatee Players 65th Anniversary Season Musicals
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jul 1, 2011


Single tickets to all of Manatee Players 65th Anniversary Season of musicals are now on sale.

KISS ME, KATE Comes To NJPAC 7/15-24
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jun 15, 2011


Talented high school and college-age actors and musicians from across New Jersey will breathe new life into Cole Porter's Tony-award winning musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate this July, this summer's annual musical collaboration between the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and the New Jersey Youth Theatre (NJYT).

SOUTH PACIFIC Comes to Way Off Broadway, Closes 6/5
by BWW News Desk - Jun 5, 2011


The music of Rodgers and Hammerstein returns to The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre with its spring production of the classic South Pacific. The production will close on June 5, 2011.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Opens 20th Season With SOUTH PACIFIC, 6/17
by Kelsey Denette - Jun 1, 2011


For the first time, an actor will arrive direct from a Broadway production to appear in the same role on the PSF main stage: William Michals, who played Emile de Becque in South Pacific at Lincoln Center will perform the role in PSF's production.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Opens 20th Season with South Pacific
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jun 1, 2011


The opening production of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 20th season, South Pacific, features several historic firsts

ROCK OF AGES et al. to Play at New Haven's Shubert Theater for 2011 -12 Season
by Caryn Robbins - May 26, 2011


The national tour of 'Rock of Ages' will play the 97-year-old Shubert Theater in New Haven in December. The musical will be making its Connecticut debut. The non-Equity show will be part of the 2011-12 seat at the theater and will run Dec. 9 to 11. The musical is described as 'an arena-rock love story told through the 80s hits of Journey, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar and more.'

Players Club of Swarthmore Closes Season with SOUTH PACIFIC, Opening 4/22
by BWW News Desk - Apr 22, 2011


The Players Club of Swarthmore Theater is gearing up to end its Centennial season with a bang - a big production that's a perennial favorite. Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will be hitting the PCS stage in April and May - bringing hits like 'Some Enchanted Evening', 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair' and 'I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy' along with it.

Womack, Szot Lead SOUTH PACIFIC UK Tour
by Gabrielle Sierra - Apr 20, 2011


Paulo Szot, who has recently emerged as one of the most exciting voices in opera and who won a Tony for his performance as Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center Theater (Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) production of SOUTH PACIFIC, will be recreating the role of the French plantation owner at the Barbican Centre in London, where the production will run for a limited season of 7 weeks only from 15 August to 1 October, with an opening night on 23 August.

Womack and Szot to Star in UK SOUTH PACIFIC; Opens August 23
by Robert Diamond - Apr 20, 2011


Talked about for months and now finally official, Paulo Szot, who has recently emerged as one of the most exciting voices in opera and who won a Tony for his performance as Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center Theater (Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) production of SOUTH PACIFIC, will be recreating the role of the French plantation owner at the Barbican Centre in London, where the production will run for a limited season of 7 weeks only from 15 August to 1 October, with an opening night on 23 August.

Koek to Join Szot, Sayre & Womack in West End SOUTH PACIFIC as Lt. Cable?
by Jessica Lewis - Apr 15, 2011


Baz Bamigboye has revealed in the UK Daily Mail today that Daniel Koek will take the stage as Lt. Cable when South Pacific hits the Barbican Theatre in London this summer. The Bartlett Sher production, which opened at Lincoln Center in 2008 and is currently on tour, will also star original Bloody Mary Loretta Ables Sayre and Paulo Szot as Emile DeBecque. The UK's Samantha Womack will play Nellie Forbush.

Paulo Szot to Star in UK Transfer of SOUTH PACIFIC
by Nicole Rosky - Apr 11, 2011


Tony winner Paulo Szot is set to return to SOUTH PACIF as Emile de Becque in the upcoming London transfer of the 2008 Broadway revival. The production opens at the Barbican Theatre AUgust 15 before beginning a UK tour. Samantha Womack will play Nellie Forbush.

Actor-stage Manager Wally Peterson Dies at 93
by Lauren Wolman - Apr 3, 2011


Actor, singer and stage manager Wally Peterson died on Wednesday, March 30, according to Variety.com. Peterson died of natural causes in New York City. He was 93.

Players Club of Swarthmore Closes Season with SOUTH PACIFIC, Opening 4/22
by Lauren Wolman - Mar 27, 2011


The Players Club of Swarthmore Theater is gearing up to end its Centennial season with a bang - a big production that's a perennial favorite. Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will be hitting the PCS stage in April and May - bringing hits like 'Some Enchanted Evening', 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair' and 'I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy' along with it.

SOUTH PACIFIC Comes to Way Off Broadway
by Gabrielle Sierra - Feb 23, 2011


The music of Rodgers and Hammerstein returns to The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre with its spring production of the classic South Pacific.

Samantha Womack Set for UK Tour of SOUTH PACIFIC; Sher Directs
by Nicole Rosky - Feb 10, 2011


According to a report by Baz Bamigboye for Daily Mail, Samantha Womack is set to star in the UK tour of SOUTH PACIFIC as 'Nellie Forbush'. The production will be directed by Bartlett Sher, who won a Tony Award for directing the Broadway revival. The six week tour will begin on October 3.

Review - Lost In The Stars
by Ben Peltz - Feb 5, 2011


In April of 1949, Rodgers and Hammerstein shocked the Theatre World by writing a song for their new musical professing that humans developed racial prejudice by nurture and not by nature.  Later that same year, a scene in the new musical by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill showed two racially different young boys innocently striking up a quick friendship, unaware of why anyone would object.

Review - Gruesome Playground Injuries: Glad To Be Unhappy
by Ben Peltz - Feb 4, 2011


The New York stage is often a haven for self-destructive couples on display, but rarely is that self-destruction so bluntly in view as in Rajiv Joseph's intriguing Gruesome Playground Injuries.  The work of this imaginative playwright, who'll be making his Broadway debut later this season with his Pulitzer finalist, A Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, grows more interesting with each new piece to hit town and director Scott Ellis' darkly funny Second Stage production is terrifically unsettling.

Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker to star in Encores! Lost in the Stars 2/3-6
by BWW News Desk - Feb 3, 2011


Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker, Patina Miller, Sharon Washington, Daniel Gerroll, John Douglas Thompson and Sherry Boone have been cast in Lost in the Stars, the second Encores! production of the New York City Center season, running February 3 - 6 at City Center.

SOUTH PACIFIC Opens Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 20th Season
by Nicole Rosky - Feb 1, 2011


The sensational musical that won a fleet of awards when it opened in 1949 and again in its recent Broadway revival, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific will open the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 2011 summer season.

Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker to star in Encores! Lost in the Stars 2/3-6
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 10, 2011


Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker, Patina Miller, Sharon Washington, Daniel Gerroll, John Douglas Thompson and Sherry Boone have been cast in Lost in the Stars, the second Encores! production of the New York City Center season, running February 3 - 6 at City Center.

Cooper, Breaker, Miller & Washington to Star in Encores! LOST IN THE STARS
by Robert Diamond - Jan 10, 2011


Chuck Cooper, Daniel Breaker, Patina Miller, Sharon Washington, Daniel Gerroll, John Douglas Thompson and Sherry Boone have been cast in Lost in the Stars, the second Encores! production of the New York City Center season, running February 3 - 6 at City Center. Lost in the Stars has music by Kurt Weill and book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. It will be directed by Gary Griffin and choreographed by Chase Brock, with music direction by Rob Berman.

BWW Review: SOUTH PACIFIC at Providence Performing Arts Center
by Randy Rice - Dec 8, 2010


It isn't lost on me that South Pacific opened at Providence Performing Arts Center on December 7th, the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of the U.S. engagement in WWII.

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