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Bruce Dow as
Sailor Luther
Billis and
Cynthia Dale
as Ensign
Nellie Forbush
Chan), does smooth renditions of
"Bali Ha'i" and "Happy Talk" and joins
Dow for the show's pleasant comic
relief. Mackintosh sings "Younger
Than Springtime" and "You've Got
To Be Carefully Taught"; the latter is
Hammerstein's protest against racial
prejudice.
Rodgers, considered to be one of the
greatest musical show composers of all
time, wrote more than 900 songs and
40 complete Broadway shows; most of
them were collaborations with Jewish
lyricists, Hammerstein or Lorenz Hart.
Born into a prosperous New York
family, Rodgers actually considered
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business before hitting pay dirt with
such famous shows as Oklahoma!,
Carousel, The King and I, The
Sound of Music and, of course, South
Pacific. He died of cancer, at age 77, in
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nent show business family (his father
was Jewish, his mother was not), quit
law school to pursue his career as a
lyricist, book writer and musical direc-
tor. He wrote lyrics for such stellar
composers as Rodgers, Jerome Kern,
Vincent Youmans and Rudolph Friml.
His collaboration with Jewish composer
Kern on Showboat is hailed as the
start of musical theater as it is known
in America today. Hammerstein also
died of cancer, at age 65, in 1960.
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Oliver! plays at the Festival
Theatre, 55 Queen St., in
Stratford Ontario, with evening
and matinee performances,
through Oct. 29. South Pacific
plays at the Avon Theatre,
99 Downie St., in Stratford,
through Oct. 28. Tickets:
$41.40-$117.30 Canadian;
discounts for seniors and stu-
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The musical's plot provides a double
dose of racism.
One is from Michener's story "Our
Heroine," about young Navy nurse
Nellie Forbush of Little Rock, Ark.
(Cynthia Dale), who falls in love with
middle-aged French planter Emile
de Becque (Theodore Baerg). But she
is turned off when she learns he has
fathered two children with a Polynesian
woman.
The other, from Michener's "Fo'
Dolla," describes an unhappy romance
between Marine Lt. Joe Cable (Laird
Mackintosh) and Liat (Nicolette
Liwang), a teenage Tonkinese girl
whom he refuses to marry because of
their racial differences. A dangerous
mission by de Becque and Cable to spy
on Japanese warships ensues.
Richard Rodgers wrote the music,
and Oscar Hammerstein II penned the
lyrics (probably his finest) and, with
director Joshua Logan, the book as well.
All were recipients of the Tony Award in
1950, when South Pacific, which ran
for five years on Broadway, took home
nine awards.
Thundering applause often forced
opera star Ezio Pinza, who became a
Broadway legend playing de Becque,
to reprise "Some Enchanted Evening"
several times a night. The score is a
masterpiece in furthering a show's plot,
while several songs spent months on
top of the nation's "hit parade."
Dale, an eight-year Stratford veteran
of premier musical lead roles, is nifty
as Forbush (played by Mary Martin
in the original). Her best songs are
"A Cockeyed Optimist,""I'm Gonna
Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair"
and "Honey Bun." Baerg's voice is suf-
ficient, but the supporting cast shines
again; many of them have roles in both
Oliver! and South Pacific.
Dow, who plays Mr. Bumble in
Oliver!, is Luther Billis, the con-artist
Seabee who leads "There's Nothing Like
a Dame" in South Pacific. Oliver!'s
Nancy (Wilson) is a South Pacific
nurse. In June alone, they play both
roles eight times on the same day.
Liat's mother, Bloody Mary (Grace
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