The musical South Pacific won a Tony award for best musical in 1950, among other awards in the same year.
In 1950, South Pacific won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, in addition to the Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Libretto, and Best Score.
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It's from the musical "South Pacific"
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (and Joshua Logan) won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the musical, South Pacific. Rodgers and Hammerstein also won a 1944 Special Citation from the Pulitzer Board for their contribution to music.
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The original musical opened on April 1949, and a revival on April 2008.
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"South Pacific" won the Tony for Best Musical in 1951.
The French character from the musical South Pacific is named Emile de Becque. He is a character that is described as an expatriate and a planter.
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Giorgio Tozzi from the musical "South Pacific" .
The musical of South Pacific has multiple levels of significance. First and primarily were its attempts to raise the social topic and taboo of cross-cultural marriages and relationships. Second, it was historical fiction capturing aspects to the American experience in the Pacific theater of World War II.