Arts & Entertainment

South Pacific at the McCallum Theatre

NETworks Presentations presents a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical South Pacific, making its Palm Desert debut at McCallum Theatre, playing January 27 through January 29 as part of the Rabobank Broadway Blockbusters series.

This breathtaking new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific is based on the 2008 Tony Award® winning Lincoln Center Theater production, directed by Bartlett Sher. Based on James Michener’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.

Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples – U.S. Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque, and Navy Airman Joe Cable and a young local native girl Liat – and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and their own prejudices. Considered by many to be the finest musical ever written, the score’s songs include such classics as “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,” “Younger Than Springtime,” “Bali Ha’i,” “There is Nothin’ Like A Dame,” “This Nearly Was Mine” and “A Wonderful Guy.”

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McCallum Theatre and Rabobank present Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific on Friday, January 27, at 8:00pm; Saturday, January 28, at 2:00pm and 8:00pm; and Sunday, January 29, at 2:00pm and 7:30pm. Tickets are priced at $95, $85, $65 and $45 for evening performances, and $85, $75, $55 and $35 for matinees. Tickets are available by calling the McCallum Theatre Box Office at (760) 340-2787 or online at www.mccallumtheatre.com. McCallum Theatre, located at 73000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert CA 92260, accepts payment by cash, personal check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express.


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