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South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre review - gloriously revived and also refreshed
Rodgers and Hammerstein classic has new relevance in a spectacular production
by Gary NaylorSaturday, 17 July 2021
Gina Beck (Nellie) & Julian Ovenden (Emile) in South Pacific Johan Persson
We’ve come to learn what socially distanced means but, 72 years ago, the distance that concerned Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers was that between racial groups in the United States. With a catalogue of hits behind them, they turned to
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