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 South Pacific Complete Vocal Score
South Pacific Vocal Selections
 South Pacific 1958 Film Version on DVD
South Pacific 2001 Film Version on DVD
 South Pacific Kareoke Background Tracks CD
 South Pacific - Original Broadway Cast Recording - Download The Album Now!
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Tales Of The South Pacific by James Michener.
South Pacific is a musical with a more serious message than most others created in its time period. It is one of only a handful of musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Nellie Forbush is a nurse working overseas during World War II. She falls in love with a wealthy, older man who owns a plantation there. When she discovers that the mother of his two small children was a Tonkinese woman, the prejudices she grew up with in Arkansas prevent her from accepting his offer of marriage. Her friend, Lt. Cable, has a fiance back home, but speaks of her with a sense of duty rather than feelings of love. When he meaets a young, innocent Tonkinesse girl, he too is forced to face his prejudices.
Audition Preparation Suggestions for
South Pacific
Despite the heavy message, most of the music in South Pacific is very upbeat. If you are auditioning for chorus, definitely choose an uptempo audition song. Light dancing is required for the nurses.
This show features characters of a specific ethnicity. |
- Nellie Forbush (legit mezzo low A to C, dance, 25-30)
- a spunky young nurse from Arkansas. Tomboyish, optimistic, Mary Martin type.
- Emile deBecque (Operatic Bass, French accent, 40s)
- a mature, sophisticated French planter - often played by an opera singer
- Lt. Joseph Cable (Tenor E to high G, 25-29)
- An extremely handsome and intelligent Lietenant with a bright future in the US Navy.
- US Marine Luther Billis (Baritone, comic role)
- A loveable character who provides his fellow marines with much-needed comic relief. Does not respect authority. Enterprising, stubborn. Adores Nellie.
- Bloody Mary (Haunting Mezzo, low G to high F, Asian, comedic)
- Shrewd native merchant who makes a fortune off the sailors. Mother of Liat.
- Liat (Non-singing, Asian, 16-20)
- A beautiful Polynesian girl who steals the heart of Joe Cable. Bloody Mary's daughter.
- Ngana & Jerome (Asian, 6-12)
- Emile's children, speak French
- Henry (Asian, French dialect)
- Emile's native servant, speaks French
- Capt. George Bracket
- Commanding officer on the island. Slightly pompous but not without a soft side.
- Cmdr. William Harbison (25 - 40)
- Bracket's right hand man. Can be hot-headed, especially when Billis is concerned.
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- "Stewpot" George Watts
- Carpenter's Make Second Class
- Professor
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- Lt. Buzz Adams
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- Yeoman Herbert Quale
- sailor
- Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey
- sailor
- 2 Seabees, 2 Sailors, 3 Marines, A shore Patroleman, a Lead Nurse, Ensign Dinah Murphy, Ensign Janet MacGregor, 7 Ensigns, Islanders, Nuns, Officers, Sailors, Marines & Soldiers
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