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Show Pioneer MemorialTheater to Present 'South Pacific' Dolla" deals with a South Seas native, Bloody Mary, whose sixteen-year-old daughter, Liat has a brief but intense affair with Joe Cable, an Ameriean naval officer. The other "Our Heroine," deals with a romance between bet-ween a middle-aged planter, Emile de Becque and Nellie Forbush, a young American nurse. Set on a South Sea island; during World War II and peopled with a variety of natives, sailors, seabees, and marines it is both cheering and heart-breaking "South Pacific" will play through May 28 at Pioneer Memorial Theatre. Performances Perfor-mances are nightly (except Sundays) at 8:00 with a matinee on Saturday, May 28 at 2:00. Pioneer Memorial Theatre is at 3rd South and University Streets in Salt Lake City, Utah. For further information and reservations, reserva-tions, call the PMT box office at 581-6961. ' K ' "' I V w 1 V v , ;f . V r The human race continues the quest for acceptance, dignity, beauty and love and the values and needs shown in "South Pacific"- are as valid - of not more so - now than they were when this musical won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. "South Pacific" will play through May 28 at Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah. "South Pacific", with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammer-stein Hammer-stein 2nd, opened on Broadway Broad-way on April 7, 1949. Mary Martin played Nellie, Ezio Pinza was Emile de Becque, The show ran for almost five years on Broadway and, indeed, the curtain has never closed on "South Pacific" - it is almost always playing somewhere in the world. It's difficult to determine which emotions receive the biggest play in the audiences of "South Pacific" because it is at once touching, heroic, and absolutely hilarious. "South Pacific" is based on two stories from James Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific." One, "Fo' Iiat Kerry Shimlzu sings "Younger Than Springtime," to Lt. Cable Russell Cuff in "South Pacific" at Pioneer Memorial Theatre. |