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N.J. high school cancels ‘South Pacific’ after students raise bias concerns, plans concert instead
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
The largest high school district in Hunterdon County recently decided to abandon plans to present “South Pacific” as its spring musical after students and staff raised concerns about potentially insensitive characters and dialogue within the production.
Instead, Hunterdon Central Regional High School will present a full-fledged concert titled “Some Enchanted Evening: A Celebration of the Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein.”
Fabianna Rincon and Anjali Vijan, two seniors at the Raritan Township-based school, said they met with school administrators, teachers and union members in late February to express concerns over “South Pacific,” a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical that premiered in 1949 and was revived on Broadway in 2008.