Joshua Logan News

Back from National Tour and sold out shows in Washington and New York, Princeton’s Famous Triangle Show returns to McCarter Theatre Center for two encore performances of its 2011 original musical extravaganza, Doomsday of Our Lives…Hindsight is 2012. (more...)

No matter what you do to a production of SOUTH PACIFIC, it is still going to have that unbelievably great Rodgers and Hammerstein score. Decades after SOUTH PACIFIC premiered on Broadway, won the Pulitzer, the Tony and just about every other award available for it to win and became the new long run champ, SOUTH PACIFIC still assaults our senses and perhaps our soul with SOME ENCHANTED EVENING, A COCKEYED OPTIMIST, THERE IS NOTHIN’ LIKE A DAME, BALI HA’I, I’M GONNA WASH THAT MAN RIGHT OUTA MY HAIR, A WONDERFUL GUY, YOUNGER THAN SPRINGTIME, HAPPY TALK, HONEY BUN, and YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT, just to name the majority. (more...)

SOUTH PACIFIC makes its Fort Lauderdale debut for a limited two week run, Tuesday, April 10–Sunday, April 22, presented by the Bank of America, Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale in association with the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. (more...)

No matter what you do to a production of SOUTH PACIFIC, it is still going to have that unbelievably great Rodgers and Hammerstein score. Decades after SOUTH PACIFIC premiered on Broadway, won the Pulitzer, the Tony and just about every other award available for it to win and became the new long run champ, SOUTH PACIFIC still assaults our senses and perhaps our soul with SOME ENCHANTED EVENING, A COCKEYED OPTIMIST, THERE IS NOTHIN’ LIKE A DAME, BALI HA’I, I’M GONNA WASH THAT MAN RIGHT OUTA MY HAIR, A WONDERFUL GUY, YOUNGER THAN SPRINGTIME, HAPPY TALK, HONEY BUN, and YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT, just to name the majority. (more...)

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. (more...)

Today in 2008, the first Broadway revival of South Pacific opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 996 performances. South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The musical centers on an American nurse stationed at a U.S. Naval base during World War II who falls in love with an expatriate French plantation owner but struggles to accept his mixed-race children. A second romance concerns a U.S. Lieutenant who falls in love with a young Asian woman. The musical premiered in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950. (more...)

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. (more...)

The new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, based on the 2008 Tony Award® winning Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Bartlett Sher, plays the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Tues. April 3 & Wed. April 4 at 8 PM. Derived from 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. (more...)

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) presents the classic romantic comedy BUS STOP by William Inge, April 12-29, 2012. The production will be a collaborative venture with the University of Wisconsin – Parkside (UWP) theatre department with at least 25 students and faculty serving as actors, designers and production personnel. BUS STOP performs in the Broadway Theatre Center’s Cabot Theatre in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward. (more...)

Portland Ovations brings NETworks Presentations new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, to Merrill Auditorium through March 18th for its' Portland, Maine debut. (more...)

Portland Ovations brings NETworks Presentations new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, to Merrill Auditorium on March 17th and 18th for its' Portland, Maine debut. (more...)

On this Sunday night's episode of ABC's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES entitled "She Needs Me", Susan tells Porter that she'll set up a nursery and watch over his and Julie's baby after Lynette firmly tells her son that she will not help raise her future granddaughter. (more...)

On this Sunday night's episode of ABC's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES entitled "She Needs Me", Susan tells Porter that she'll set up a nursery and watch over his and Julie's baby after Lynette firmly tells her son that she will not help raise her future granddaughter. (more...)

Those iconic and beloved actresses Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood, whose careers were each to be cut tragically short, can be seen in two of their most important and popular films: 1956's "Bus Stop" and 1961's "West Side Story" respectively on THIRTEEN's Reel 13 in March. (more...)

Portland Ovations brings NETworks Presentations new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, to Merrill Auditorium on March 17th and 18th for its' Portland, Maine debut. (more...)

NETworks Presentations will present a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC making its Chicago debut at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) and playing for two weeks only, Feb. 14 – 26, 2012. Individual tickets go on sale this Friday, Dec. 16, 2012 at 10 a.m. (more...)

NETworks Presentations will present a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, making its Nashville debut at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Hall, playing February 7 to 12 as part of the HCA/TriStar Broadway series. (more...)

There comes a moment late in the second act of South Pacific when Nellie Forbush (played by the luminous Katie Reid), after hearing the disembodied voice of Emile Debecque (the dashing Marcelo Guzzo) over a two-way radio relaying some heartbreaking news—and confirming to her that he has sacrificed all he holds dear in order to help Allied forces overcome Japanese forces—when she runs on the beach, beseeching Emile to “come back” so that she may admit her foolhardy response to him before he left on that heroic mission. She completes her heartrending plea for his safe return with a lovely reprise, however brief, of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s stunning “Some Enchanted Evening.” (more...)

With a score that features some of the most beloved songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalogue and a book that some would argue was ahead of its time when the show debuted on Broadway in 1949, South Pacific represents a weighty undertaking for any theatrical troupe, whether on Broadway or on tour. And with the NETWorks tour headed to Nashville for an eight-performance run at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Hall, much of that responsibility falls to Katie Reid, who plays Ensign Nellie Forbush, and Sarna Lapine, who’s charged with recreating Bartlett Sher’s Tony Award-winning direction for the national tour. (more...)

NETworks Presentations will present a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, making its Nashville debut at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Hall, playing February 7 to 12 as part of the HCA/TriStar Broadway series. (more...)