Reba McIntyre in South Pacific?

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[CharleyH]

South Pacific is one of my favorite musicals. I heard about this earlier in the summer but hadn't seen it.

The show was on PBS earlier this evening. Interesting. And frightening.


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The June 9th Carnegie Hall concert of South Pacific with Reba McIntyre and Brian Stokes Mitchell will be aired on "Great Performances" sometime in Spring of 2006.

McIntyre is the naive Nellie Forbush in the concert, while Stokes Mitchell will be the dashing Emile de Becque. Alec Baldwin will appear as Luther Billis, Lillias White as Bloody Mary, Jason Danieley as Lt. Cable, Renita Croney as Liat, Dylan Baker as Commander William Harbison, Conrad John Schuck as Captain Brackett, Alexander Gemignani as Stewpot, Tom Deckman as the Professor, Alexio Barboza as Jerome and Alex de Castro as Ngana.

David Ives' revised book is adapted from Hammerstein's and Joshua Logan's original. Walter Bobbie will direct the concert, while Paul Gemignani will conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke's. The concert's design team comprises John Lee Beatty (scenic consultant), Catherine Zuber (costume consultant), Alan Adelman (lighting designer) and Acme Sound Partners (sound design).

South Pacific, which is based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, starred Mary Martin as Nellie and Ezio Pinza as Emile when it opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 7th, 1949. Rodgers and Hammerstein's second-longest running show at 1,925 performances, it won all of its 11 Tony nominations in 1950, including Best Musical.

A limited number of tickets for the 8 PM concert, which are priced at $34, $52 and $78, can be purchased by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800. Benefit tickets, priced at $850, $1,000, $1,500 and $2,500, are also available by calling (212) 903-9679.

"Great Performances" airs on New York's Thirteen/WNET. Check listings for local PBS stations.


Brian Stokes Mitchell as Emile was perfect. Yum. He has a bass voice to make you swoon. Wonderful.
Jason Danieley as Lt. Cable worked, excellent tenor.
Lillias White as Bloody Mary, wonderful. Beautiful voice.
Alec Baldwin wasn't a very convincing Billis, but he wasn't too bad.

And then there was Reba. As Nellie.

No.

NO.

I watched through to the end just to hear Stokes Mitchell sing. And he truly made Reba swoon, she was in tears when he sang to her at the very end.

But oh my. Reba just didn't work for me.

Anyone else see this? Maybe I'm just too snooty having seen it so many times before?

I could show you some Fosse moves? Much more interesting LOL LOL

 

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[Noor]

South Pacific is one of my favorite musicals. I heard about this earlier in the summer but hadn't seen it.

The show was on PBS earlier this evening. Interesting. And frightening.


http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=3528


The June 9th Carnegie Hall concert of South Pacific with Reba McIntyre and Brian Stokes Mitchell will be aired on "Great Performances" sometime in Spring of 2006.

McIntyre is the naive Nellie Forbush in the concert, while Stokes Mitchell will be the dashing Emile de Becque. Alec Baldwin will appear as Luther Billis, Lillias White as Bloody Mary, Jason Danieley as Lt. Cable, Renita Croney as Liat, Dylan Baker as Commander William Harbison, Conrad John Schuck as Captain Brackett, Alexander Gemignani as Stewpot, Tom Deckman as the Professor, Alexio Barboza as Jerome and Alex de Castro as Ngana.

David Ives' revised book is adapted from Hammerstein's and Joshua Logan's original. Walter Bobbie will direct the concert, while Paul Gemignani will conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke's. The concert's design team comprises John Lee Beatty (scenic consultant), Catherine Zuber (costume consultant), Alan Adelman (lighting designer) and Acme Sound Partners (sound design).

South Pacific, which is based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, starred Mary Martin as Nellie and Ezio Pinza as Emile when it opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 7th, 1949. Rodgers and Hammerstein's second-longest running show at 1,925 performances, it won all of its 11 Tony nominations in 1950, including Best Musical.

A limited number of tickets for the 8 PM concert, which are priced at $34, $52 and $78, can be purchased by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800. Benefit tickets, priced at $850, $1,000, $1,500 and $2,500, are also available by calling (212) 903-9679.

"Great Performances" airs on New York's Thirteen/WNET. Check listings for local PBS stations.


Brian Stokes Mitchell as Emile was perfect. Yum. He has a bass voice to make you swoon. Wonderful.
Jason Danieley as Lt. Cable worked, excellent tenor.
Lillias White as Bloody Mary, wonderful. Beautiful voice.
Alec Baldwin wasn't a very convincing Billis, but he wasn't too bad.

And then there was Reba. As Nellie.

No.

NO.

I watched through to the end just to hear Stokes Mitchell sing. And he truly made Reba swoon, she was in tears when he sang to her at the very end.

But oh my. Reba just didn't work for me.

Anyone else see this? Maybe I'm just too snooty having seen it so many times before?

I have seen it a few times, guess I got used to Reba I thought she wasn't bad if I didn't actually look at her. I could never handle Mary Martin in the role of Nellie. What I didn't understand was why all the performers had to look at the words. I know the entire score by heart, why couldn't they learn their parts. The kids learned theirs in french no less

 

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[Huckleman2000]

A couple weeks ago I saw on PBS a British production of Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman as Curly. He's got a wonderful voice! He wasn't bad, but I turned it off during Ali Hakim's song. I didn't recognize any of the other actors.

 

[wyckdwench]

I didn't see it but I am sure it will be aired again. I would be curious to see it myself. Growing up on musicals I too know the words to the songs if not all of the dialog. I am not sure I would buy Alec Baldwin in it though.