Editing Rodgers and Hammerstein (section)

===''South Pacific''===
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[[File:Final scene South Pacific.jpg|thumb|upright=1|alt=Emile and Nellie grasp hands as Emile's two children look on.|The final tableau in ''South Pacific'' (1949)]]
'''''South Pacific''''' opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, and ran for over five years. Its songs "[[Bali Ha'i]]", "[[Younger Than Springtime]]", and "[[Some Enchanted Evening (song)|Some Enchanted Evening]]" have become standards.  The play is based upon two short stories by [[James A. Michener]] from his book ''[[Tales of the South Pacific]]'', which itself was the winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 1948.  For their adaptation, Rodgers and Hammerstein, along with co-writer [[Joshua Logan]], won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] in 1950. The song "[[You've Got to Be Carefully Taught]]" was controversial due to its support of [[interracial marriage]]. Rodgers and Hammerstein refused to remove it from the show, even if it meant the show failing. When the show was touring in Atlanta, Georgia, it offended some Georgian lawmakers, who proposed a bill to outlaw any entertainment they deemed to be inspired by Moscow.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Most |first=Andrea |date=2000 |title='You've Got to Be Carefully Taught': The Politics of Race in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'South Pacific' |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25068808 |journal=Theatre Journal |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=307–337 |doi=10.1353/tj.2000.0091 |jstor=25068808 |s2cid=153722364 |issn=0192-2882|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In the original production, [[Mary Martin]] starred as the heroine Nellie Forbush, and opera star [[Ezio Pinza]] starred as Emile de Becque, the French plantation owner. Also in the cast were [[Juanita Hall]], [[Myron McCormick]] and [[Betta St. John]].  The [[South Pacific (1958 film)|1958 film version]], also directed by Logan, starred [[Mitzi Gaynor]], [[Rossano Brazzi]], [[John Kerr (actor)|John Kerr]], [[Ray Walston]], and [[Juanita Hall]].  Brazzi, Kerr, and Hall had their singing dubbed by others.