Pittsinger & Cusack Lead SOUTH PACIFIC Tour at Kennedy Center, 12/14 - 1/16

David Pittsinger and Carmen Cusack will bring Emile de Becque and Nellie Forbush, respectively, to the Kennedy Center from December 14 through January 16, when the national tour of SOUTH PACIFIC plays its holiday run in Washington DC.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC swept the 2008 Tony Awards, winning seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director for Bartlett Sher. This breathtaking production was lauded by the critics as "Simply Wonderful! Beguiling Theatrical Magic!" (New York Post), "Ravishing and Overwhelming" (Variety) and "Rapturous and Revelatory!" (The New York Times).

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 war and by their own prejudices. Considered by many 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."

Before returning to Washington D.C. for its holiday run, the show will make its next stops at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts November 23 through November 28, Hershey Pennsylvania's Hershey Theatre November 30 through December 5, and Providence's Performing Arts Center December 7 through December 12.

For tickets and information, visit www.southpacificontour.com.