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South Pacific : Paradise Rewritten
ISBN: 9780195377026 | 0195377028
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/24/2010
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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 demo... MORE
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Who Can Explain It? | p. 1 |
| The Musical Is the Message | p. 14 |
| An Adaptable Source: Michener's Tales of the South Pacific | p. 35 |
| False Starts: The Disappearance of Bill Harbison and Dinah Culbert | p. 58 |
| You've Got to Be Carefully Rewritten: The Distillation of Racial Intolerance | p. 82 |
| Nellie and the Boys: Situating Gender in South Pacific | p. 108 |
| Cult... MORE | p. 161 |
| Still Dreaming of Paradise | p. 183 |
| The Structure of Tales of the South Pacific | p. 191 |
| Scene Breakdown for South Pacific | p. 193 |
| ôThe Bright Young Executive of Todayö | p. 199 |
| Comparison of Final Version and Draft of ôI'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hairö | p. 207 |
| Comparison of Final Version and Draft of ôI'm in Love with a Wonderful Guyö | p. 211 |
| Original Form for ôHappy Talkö | p. 215 |
| Notes | p. 217 |
| Bibliography | p. 241 |
| Index | p. 247 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Jim Lovensheimer is Assistant Professor of Music at Vanderbilt University.
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