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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 March 2013
- ISBN 9780199975440
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 155x231x20 mm
- Weight 417 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 photos, 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.
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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. The book also offers valuable background to the writing of "South Pacific," exploring the earlier careers of both Rodgers and Hammerstein, showing how they frequently explored serious social issues in their other works, and discussing their involvement in the political movements of their day, such as Hammerstein's founding membership in the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. Finally, the book features many wonderful appendices, including two that compare the original draft and final form of the classic songs "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair" and "I'm In Love With a Wonderful Guy."
Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, this superb book offers a rich, intriguing portrait of a Broadway masterpiece and the era in which it was created.
Lovensheimer's remarkable account of South Pacific firmly situates the show in late 1940s America, showing how Rodgers and Hammerstein used their 'enchanted evening' also to explore issues of race, gender, and national identity still resonant today.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Who Can Explain It?
Chapter 2: The Musical is the Message
Chapter 3: An Adaptable Source: Michener's Tales of the South Pacific
Chapter 4: False Starts: The Disappearance of Bill Harbison and Dinah Culbert
Chapter 5: You've Got to be Carefully Rewritten: The Distillation of Racial Intolerance
Chapter 6: Nellie and the Boys: Situating Gender in South Pacific
Chapter 7: 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."
