Broadway is an old dog, slow to learn new tricks. But every now and then it aces one of its old tricks. The audiences who flocked to Lincoln Center's 2008 revival of "South Pacific" won't soon forget its thrilling first moments: the lights dimmed, the opening strains of "Bali Ha'i" filled the Vivian Beaumont, and a moving platform revealed a sumptuous thirty-piece orchestra. For theatregoers accustomed to dinky offst…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on February 27, 2015