Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel
“Tales of the South Pacific” by James A. Michener
Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French planter, Emile. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile’s proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he’s fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie. When Emile is recruited to accompany Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe’s life, Nellie realizes that life is too short not to seize her own chance for happiness. (https://www.rnh.com/show/97/South-Pacific)
Production Team
- Director: Peter Caracappa
- Music Director: Adrienne Sherman
- Choreographer: Brittany Leigh Glenn
- Producer: Joanne dame Peal
- Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Rachael Sheffer
- Scenic Designer: Michael McDermott
- Master Carpenter: Richard Lenehan
- Sound Designer: Robert Healey
- Lighting Designer: Michael Silvia
- Props Coordinators: Joe and Mary Ann Concra
- Costume Team: Danielle O’Brien, Moira Poniatowski, Pat Casey, Karen Boynton, and Elaine Genz
- Hair Coordinator: Joseph Kennedy
- Make-up Coordinator: Marcia Lenehan
- French Advisor: Mary Darcy
Cast
- Ensign Nellie Forbush: Heather-Liz Copps
- Emile de Becque: Steven Leifer
- Lt. Joseph Cable: Tyler Thomas
- Jerome: Danetta Mormon
- Ngana: Jerzee Mormon
- Henry: Omar McCray
- Professor: Steve Keller
- Stewpot: Patrick Reilly
- Staff Sgt. Thomas Hassinger: Daniel Heath
- Seebee Morton Wise: Connor Duffy
- Yeoman Herbert Quale: Christopher Stefani
- Sgt. Kenneth Johnson: Tristan Strasser
- Lt. Buzz Adams: Jerred Hickey
- Richard West: Brian Cotterell
- Bloody Mary: Elizabeth Sherwood-Mack
- Luther Billis: Matthew Dembling
- Lead Nurse Lt. Genevieve Marshall: Janice Walz
- Ensign Janet MacGregor: Leah Sharron
- Ensign Dinah Murphy: Michelle Kittel
- Ensign Rita Adams: Carolyn Frantz
- Ensign Bessie Noonan: Christina Benardo
- Ensign Lisa Minelli: Trish Scott
- Ensign Cora MacRae: Sarah Moran
- Ensign Sue Yaeger: Marie Militano
- Ensign Connie Walewska: Brooke Hutchins
- Cmdr. William Harbison: Ken Ryer
- Capt. George Brackett: John Sutliff
- Liat: Stefanie DeFronzo
