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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 September 2010
- ISBN 9780195377026
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 157x246x20 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 photographs, 11 music examples 0
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Short description:
South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how Rodgers and Hammerstein diluted the radical social and political content of the musical South Pacific between its conception and its Broadway opening in order to ensure its commercial success, resulting in a work that remained edifying but that did not offend its audiences.
MoreLong description:
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "South Pacific" has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive research in the Rodgers and the Hammerstein papers, including Hammerstein's personal notes on James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, Jim Lovensheimer offers a fascinating reading of "South Pacific" that explores the show's complex messages and demonstrates how the presentation of those messages changed throughout the creative process. Indeed, the author shows how Rodgers and especially Hammerstein continually refined and softened the theme of racial intolerance until it was more acceptable to mainstream Broadway audiences. Likewise, Lovensheimer describes the treatment of gender and colonialism in the musical, tracing how it both reflected and challenged early Cold War Era American norms. This superb book offers an intriguing portrait of a Broadway masterpiece and the times in which it was written.
This is the first offering from Oxford University Press's new Broadway Legacies series; if the next volumes are as good as this, the series will contribute greatly to the still under-written history of the Broadway musical.
Table of Contents:
Who Can Explain It?
The Musical is the Message
An Adaptable Source: Michener's Tales of the South Pacific
False Starts: The Disappearance of Bill Harbison and Dinah Culbert
You've Got to be Carefully Rewritten: The Distillation of Racial Intolerance
Nellie and the Boys: Situating Gender in South Pacific
Culture Clash: Colonialism and South Pacific
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A: The Structure of Tales of the South Pacific
Appendix B: Scene breakdown for South Pacific
Appendix C: "The Bright Young Executive of Today"
Appendix D: Comparison of final version and draft of "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair"
Appendix E: Comparison of final version and draft for "I'm In Love With a Wonderful Guy"
Appendix F: Original form for "Happy Talk."
