I know we’re not supposed to expect perfection in this imperfect world, but I’m darned if I can find one serious flaw in this rapturous production. --Ben Brantley, New York Times
YouTube's "swan5555" is a theater buff.
He's put up all three hours of the revival of South Pacific that prompted the rave above. It's the 2008 PBS telecast of actors performing the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1949 hit, 61 years after it opened.
Look at it as an artifact of musical history.
TV's pace and editing may make it seem slow.
But from the moment the orchestra first kisses the lush Robert Russell Bennett arrangements, you may want to lean forward ...
LINK: Ben Brantley's full review
Sean Cullen is in the cast.
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