South Pacific [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

Overview

South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is one of the team's greatest and most universal works. The richly textured cast album features Mary Martin as Nellie Forbush, the American nurse in love with an older Frenchman, played by opera star Ezio Pinza. South Pacific expertly balances their unusual love story with pungent social commentary, notably in the famous antihatred lyrics of "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught." Martin's powerful vocals on "A Cockeyed Optimist," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair," and "A Wonderful Guy" are thrilling, as are Rodgers and Hammerstein classics "Younger Than Springtime" and "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame." Still, it's Pinza's breathtaking "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine" that will leave you with a lump in your throat.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/05/2009
Label:	Masterworks
UPC:	0886974991922
catalogNumber:	749919
Rank:	4421

Tracks

1. Act 1. Overture
2. Act 1. Dites-moi
3. Act 1. A Cockeyed Optimist
4. Act 1. Twin Soliloquies
5. Act 1. Some Enchanted Evening
6. Act 1. Bloody Mary
7. Act 1. There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
8. Act 1. Bali Ha'i
9. Act 1. I'm Gonna Wash that Man right outa My Hair
10. Act 1. A Wonderful Guy
11. Act 1. Younger than Springtime
12. Act 2. Happy Talk
13. Act 2. Honey Bun
14. Act 2. You've Got to be Carefully Taught
15. Act 2. This Nearly Was Mine
16. Act 2. Finale. Dites-moi (reprise)
17. Loneliness of Evening
18. My Girl Back Home
19. Bali Ha'i
20. Symphonic Scenario for Concert Orchestra

Album Credits

Performance Credits

André Kostelanetz   Conductor
Mary Martin   Vocals
Juanita Hall   Vocals
Ezio Pinza   Vocals
Lehman Engel   Conductor
Eugene Smith   Vocals
Bill Dwyer   Vocals
Jim Hawthorne   Vocals
Mardi Bayne   Vocals
Thomas Gleason   Vocals
Alan Gilbert   Vocals
Biff McGuire   Vocals
Evelyn Colby   Vocals
Michael DeLeon   Vocals
Dickinson Eastham   Vocals
Jacqueline Fisher   Vocals
Jack Fontan   Vocals
Richard Loo   Vocals
Roslyn Lowe   Vocals
Barbara Luna   Vocals
Myron McCormick   Vocals
Alex Nicol   Vocals
Bernice Saunders   Vocals
Helena Schurgot   Vocals
Harvey Stephens   Vocals
Beau Tilden   Vocals
Martin Wolfson   Vocals
Chin Yu   Vocals
Philadelphia Pops Orchestra   Performing Ensemble
Sandra Deal   Vocals
William Tabbert   Vocals
William Ferguson   Vocals
South Pacific Pit Orchestra   Performing Ensemble
Donald Fellows   Vocals
Patricia Northrop   Vocals
Michel Henry   Vocals
G. Meli   Vocals

Technical Credits

Robert Russell Bennett   Orchestration
Didier C. Deutsch   Reissue Producer
Oscar Hammerstein   Lyricist,Book
Goddard Lieberson   Producer
Fred Plaut   Engineer
Robert Waller   Engineer
Marc Kirkeby   Liner Notes,Synopsis
Theodore S. Chapin   Liner Notes
Chris Woehrle   Art Direction
Trude Rittman   Arranger,Dance Arrangement
Eleanor Becker   Editorial Production
Joshua Logan   Book
Salvatore Dell'Isola   Music Direction
Darcy M. Proper   Reissue Producer