26^th Festival Season - 2004

South Pacific

By: Rodgers and Hammerstein

Premiere: April 7, 1949

Book By: Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan

Music By: Richard Rodgers

Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French planter, Emile. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile's proposal of marriage.

Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he's fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie. When Emile is recruited to accompany Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe's life, Nellie realizes that life is too short not to seize her own chance for happiness, thus confronting and conquering her prejudice.

Production Team
Conductor	J. Lynn Thompson
Stage Director	Steven Daigle
Choreographer	Carol Hageman
Set Designer	Tymberley Wittrig
Costume Designer	Damita Peace
Lighting Designer	Shannon Schweitzer

Cast
Ensign Nellie Forbush	Sahara Glasner Kemper LeCroy
Émile de Becque	Boyd Mackus
Ngana, his daughter	Polly Dexter Emily Neill
Jerome, his son	Jacob Greathouse Chase Smith
Henry, his servant	Carl Bara
Bloody Mary	Alta Boover Ingrid Young
Liat, her daughter	Rosanna Yoder
Luther Billis	Gregory Brookes
Stewpot, George Watts	Nathan Brian
Professor	Brian Woods
Lt. Joseph Cable, USMC	Grant Knox Timothy Oliver
Captian George Brackett, USN	James Harr
Commander William Harbison, USN	Patrick Howle
Lt. Buzz Adams	Joshua Kohl
Yeoman Herbert Quale, sailor	Lee Matsos
2 Seabees	David Haslam Kevin Blickfeldt
2 Sailors	Chris Lyons Drake Dantzler
3 Marines	Joshua Kohl Nathan Brian Lee Matsos
McCaffrey	Kevin Blickfeldt
A Shore Patrolman	David Haslam
Lead Nurse	Rachel Rowe
Ensign Dinah Murphy	Elizabeth Mitchell
Ensign Janet MacGregor	Sara Gartland
Women of the Ensemble: Alta Boover, Robin De Leon, Polly Dexter, Sara Gartland, Sahara Glasener, Shannon Langman, Kemper LeCroy, Danielle McCormick, Dominique McCormick, Sarah Minckler, Elizabeth Mitchell, Emily Neill, Rachel Rowe, Sarah Walker, Rosanna Yoder, Ingrid Young
Men of the Ensemble: Carl Bara, Kevin Blickfeldt, Gregory Brookes, Nathan Brian, Drake Dantzler, James Harr, David Haslam, Jacob Greathouse, Patrick Howle, Grant Knox, Joshua Kohl, Chris Lyons, Boyd Mackus, Lee Matsos, Timothy Oliver, Chase Smith, Brian Woods