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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Musicals Based on Short Fiction: Fiddler on the Roof, Carmen Jones, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Jekyll & Hyde, Candide, Pal Joey

Musicals Based on Short Fiction: Fiddler on the Roof, Carmen Jones, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Jekyll & Hyde, Candide, Pal Joey

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ISBN10: 1155464753
ISBN13: 9781155464756
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Fiddler on the Roof, Carmen Jones, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Jekyll & Hyde, Candide, Pal Joey, The Light in the Piazza, See What I Wanna See, Aspects of Love, The Apple Tree, One Touch of Venus, A Year with Frog and Toad, Evening Primrose, Knickerbocker Holiday, Violet, House of Flowers, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, James Joyce's The Dead, Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer, De 3 Biggetjes. Excerpt: South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its stories into a single plotline about an American nurse at a U.S. Naval base, during World War II, who falls in love with an expatriate French plantation owner with a dark past. The issue of racial prejudice is sensitively and candidly explored in several plot threads, including the struggle of the lead character to accept the mixed-race children of her lover. Another interracial marriage is explored in the song You've Got to Be Carefully Taught. South Pacific is considered to be one of the greatest Broadway musicals. The musical premiered in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950. Several of its songs, including Bali Ha'i, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair, Some Enchanted Evening, Happy Talk, Younger than Springtime and I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy, have become popular standards. The Broadway production won ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Libretto, and it is the only musical production ever to have won all four Tony Awards for acting. The show was a critical and box office hit and has since enjoyed many successful revivals and tours, also ...

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