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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Jim Lovensheimer is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Vanderbilt University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. ...
