Original Cast Recording - South Pacific / O.C.R.
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Track List: South Pacific / O.C.R.
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- Overture - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Dites-Moi - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- A Cockeyed Optimist - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Twin Soliloquies - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Some Enchanted Evening - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Bloody Mary - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- There Is Nothin' Like A Dame - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Bali Ha'i - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- A Wonderful Guy - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Younger Than Springtime - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Bali Ha'i (Reprise) - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Happy Talk - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Honey Bun - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- You've Got To Be Taught - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- This Nearly Was Mine - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
- Finale - Music Theater Of Lincoln Center
Album Details: South Pacific / O.C.R.
- Release Date:
- 08/29/2006
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC:
- 828768839324
Pro Reviews: South Pacific / O.C.R.
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews South Pacific was revived on Broadway after its initial 1949 production, but the first major revival was the one undertaken by its composer, Richard Rodgers, in 1967 as part of his stewardship of Music Theater at Lincoln Center, an organization presenting limited summer engagements of legendary musicals at the New York State Theater in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It was sufficiently celebrated to be the first Broadway production since the first to be recorded. Rodgers rehired Giorgio Tozzi, who had been heard but not seen in the 1958 film version, dubbing the singing voice of Rossano Brazzi in the role of Emile de Becque, the French planter who woos Ensign Nellie Forbush on an island in the South Pacific during World War II. For Nellie, Rodgers picked Florence Henderson, a minor Broadway and TV performer whose most substantial stage credit had been starring in Fanny in 1954 opposite Ezio Pinza, who, coincidentally, had been the first Emile. (Henderson was two years away from realizing her true destiny as Carole Brady on TV's The Brady Bunch.) Tozzi certainly had the voice for his part, and Henderson, even if she was no Mary Martin (the original Nellie), was appealing. The secondary roles were also filled efficiently, and Rodgers snuck some extra music in here and there on what was billed as the "first true stereo" recording of the score. That was enough to make this South Pacific at least as good as the 1958 soundtrack, but still a far second to the original Broadway cast album. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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