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South Pacific : paradise rewritten / Jim Lovensheimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lovensheimer, Jim.
- Series:
- Broadway legacies.
- Broadway legacies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. South Pacific.
- Rodgers, Richard.
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960. South Pacific.
- Hammerstein, Oscar.
- Musicals--United States--20th century--History and criticism.
- Musicals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical ""South Pacific"" has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive research in the Rodgers and the Hammerstein papers, including Hammerstein's personal notes on James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, Jim Lovensheimer offers a fascinating reading of ""South Pacific"" that explores the show's complex messages and demonstrates how the presentation of those message
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; 1. Who Can Explain It?; 2. The Musical Is the Message; 3. An Adaptable Source: Michener's Tales of the South Pacific; 4. False Starts: The Disappearance of Bill Harbison and Dinah Culbert; 5. You've Got to Be Carefully Rewritten: The Distillation of Racial Intolerance; 6. Nellie and the Boys: Situating Gender in South Pacific; 7. Culture Clash: Colonialism and South Pacific; 8. Still Dreaming of Paradise; Appendix 1: The Structure of Tales of the South Pacific; Appendix 2: Scene Breakdown for South Pacific; Appendix 3: "The Bright Young Executive of Today"
- Appendix 4: Comparison of Final Version and Draft of "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair"Appendix 5: Comparison of Final Version and Draft of "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy"; Appendix 6: Original Form for "Happy Talk"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Sept. 7, 2010).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-977970-8
- 0-19-997544-2
- 0-19-970385-X
- 9786612702754
- 1-282-70275-0
- OCLC:
- 650369970
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