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Article: `South Pacific' shows its age.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2007
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Byline: Paul Kolas
COLUMN: THEATER REVIEW
STURBRIDGE - Time can be a funny thing. It can either work for or against an initially revered work.
"South Pacific" can rightly be considered an icon of American Musical Theater. There are more memorable songs here - in the adaptation of James Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific" by Rodgers & Hammerstein and Joshua Logan - than one can count in a bundle of today's Broadway fare.
The cast of Stageloft Theater worked mightily hard on Saturday night to successfully juggle "South Pacific's" schmaltzy romantic story line and Navy Seabee comic relief with the more serious themes of racism and ...