Original Broadway Cast, 1949 (Columbia/Sony) Romantic and durable, this great Rodgers and Hammerstein score ranges from operatic to 1940s swing to quasi-Polynesian to Americana, yet each song is perfectly appropriate in terms of character and situation. Hearing the unsurpassed portrayals of the expatriate French planter Emile de Becque and U.S. navy nurse Nellie Forbush created … Continue reading South Pacific â�…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:11PM on August 19, 2015