(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/14; Photo: The tones converge … South Pacific, with choreography by Ann Yee. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Old shows often pass nervously through today's ideological mettle-detectors, especially when depicting racial and international relations. But Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, a 1949 musical about American military and French economic exploitation of …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:34PM on July 16, 2021