Tony nominee Hunter Foster is set to direct the John W. Engeman Theater's upcoming production of South Pacific. Performances will begin May 15 in Northport, New York, and continue through May 29.
Casting and additional creative team members will be announced at a later date.
Foster has directed productions across the country in recent years, including Clue: On Stage, A Little Night Music, and Little Shop of Horrors at the Ogunquit Playhouse plus Million Dollar Quartet, Grease, Guys and Dolls, and more.
With a book by Joshua Logan and Oscar Hammerstein, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Hammerstein, South Pacific opened on Broadway April 7, 1949, with Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, and Juanita Hall starring. The original production won 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical, as well as the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Adapted from James A. Michener's Pulitzer-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific, the musical theatre classic introduced such songs as "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair," "Bali Ha'i," and "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught."
The work was adapted into a film in 1958, which starred Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor. A Broadway revival led by Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot, and Matthew Morrison opened in 2008, and received seven Tonys including Best Revival of a Musical.
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