Photo Coverage: 'South Pacific' Performance & CD Signing

Yesterday, June 5th, the cast of SOUTH PACIFIC performed and signed CDs at Barnes and Nobles Lincoln Triangle. Stars Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot,Matthew Morrison,Danny Burstein, Loretta Ables Sayre were on hand along with guest host Laurence Maslon (author, The South Pacific Companion). The cast performed to a standing room only crowd. Laurence Maslon introduced each song with some trivia, which you'll have to read the book to find out. Matthew Morrison performed "Younger Than Springtime," followed by Loretta Ables Sayre singing "Bali Ha'i." Next up was Paulo Szot singing "Some Enchanted Evening," and last, but not least, was Kelli O'Hara who sang "A Wonderful Guy," and got into character by kicking off her shoes. The cast then signed CDs and books for a crowd that snaked out the door of the performance space at Barnes and Noble.

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 -- US 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 the war and by their own prejudices.

The Lincoln Center Theater production of this treasured American musical, directed by Bartlett Sher, has earned 11 Tony® Award nominations and 5 Drama Desk Awards.

Tickets to Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC are available now at the Lincoln Center Theater box office (150 West 65 Street), at telecharge.com, or by visiting www.lct.org.

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Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

South Pacific CD and Book signing at Barnes and Noble

Laurence Maslon

Laurence Maslon introducing the performers

Danny Burstein

Matthew Morrison

Matthew Morrison waves to the people who couldn't make it into the performance

Matthew Morrison

Loretta Ables Sayre

Paulo Szot

Kelli O'Hara kicked off her shoes to sing

Kelli O'Hara

Kelli O'Hara's shoes

Kelli O'Hara

Kelli O'Hara exiting the stage and taking her shoes with her

Ted Sperling and Fred Lassen

The cast of South Pacific

The cast preparing to sign a lot of CDs

The cast signing CDs

Danny Burstein

Matthew Morrison

Loretta Ables Sayre

Danny Burstein,Matthew Morrison, and Loretta Ables Sayre

Matthew Morrison, Loretta Ables Sayre, and Lu Jun Li

Kelli O'Hara

Paulo Szot

Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot

Lu Jun Li,Kelli O'Hara, and Paulo Szot

Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot

Kelli O'Hara,Danny Burstein, and Paulo Szot

Loretta Ables Sayre, Lu Jun Li,Matthew Morrison,Kelli O'Hara, and Paulo Szot

Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot

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After his life as an ingenue in Brooklyn & Queens, Walter spent the next 25 Years in a leading role as a Photographer / Photo Researcher in Manhattan. He is currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and children Dali & Gala. As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of "GREASE". His journey on the path to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. His photography is syndicated worldwide through Retna Ltd. and Corbis.

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