South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten
- Author: Lovensheimer, Jim
if the next volumes are as good as this, the series will contribute greatly to the still under-written history of the Broadway musical —
Book
$56.25Special import
Contents
- 1. Who Can Explain It?
- 2. The Musical is the Message
- 3. An Adaptable Source: Michener's Tales of the South Pacific
- 4. False Starts: The Disappearance of Bill Harbison and Dinah Culbert
- 5. You've Got to be Carefully Rewritten: The Distillation of Racial Intolerance
- 6. Nellie and the Boys: Situating Gender in South Pacific
- 7. Culture Clash: Colonialism and South Pacific
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix A: The Structure of Tales of the South Pacific
- Appendix B: Scene breakdown for South Pacific
- Appendix C: The Bright Young Executive of Today
- Appendix D: Comparison of final version and draft of I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair
- Appendix E: Comparison of final version and draft for I'm In Love With a Wonderful Guy
- Appendix F: Original form for Happy Talk.