I was 13 years old when I saw this for the first time starring Ezio
Pinza and Mary Martin--now 63 years later I am looking forward to seeing
the touring company in Fort Lauderdale as eagerly as I saw it then as
well as the movie and the TV version and other stage productions. I can
tell you right now my eyes will well up during "You've Got To Be
Carefully Taught" one of the most powerful songs about discrimination
one can hear and, sadly, as true today as it was then.

I will be there opening night and for the next 2 weeks will post some of the many brilliant songs from the show

The issue of racial prejudice is candidly explored throughout the musical, most pointedly in the song, "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught".

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You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
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, spawning a 1958 film and other adaptations. The 2008 Broadway revival was a strong success, winning seven Tonys including Best Musical Revival.

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S SOUTH PACIFIC

April 10 – 22, 2012

“Simply Wonderful!
Beguiling Theatrical Magic!” hails the New York Post for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC.
This breathtaking new production of SOUTH PACIFIC is based on the 2008 Tony
Award® winning Lincoln Center Theater production, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping
romantic story of two couples and how their happiness is threatened by the
realities of war and by their own prejudices. The beloved score’s songs include
“Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,” “This
Nearly Was Mine” and “There is Nothin’ Like a Dame.” USA Today cheers, “★★★★! Gorgeous! SOUTH PACIFIC doesn’t
just float; it soars!” Based on James Michener’s Pulitzer
Prize winning book Tales of the South
Pacific, Rodgers
& Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC has music by Richard Rodgers,
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua
Logan. www.SouthPacificOnTour.com