The temperature certainly feels like the South Pacific as the Tony and Pulitzer Prize award-winning musical launches at Opera House Manchester this evening. But will this classic tale, first performed on Broadway more than 70 years ago, still enchant the audience?
Rodgers and Hammerstein's epic love story, adapted from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel: Tales of The South Pacific, is set on a US occupied Polynesian island during WW2.
The narrative centres on American nurse Nellie Forbush, who falls in love with expatriate French plantation owner Emile De Becque, but is shocked to discover he has two mixed-race children from his deceased Polynesian wife.
