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South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre review - gloriously revived and also refreshed | reviews, news & interviews South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre review - gloriously revived and also refreshed South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre review - gloriously revived and also refreshed Rodgers and Hammerstein classic has new relevance in a spectacular production by Gary NaylorSaturday, 17 July 2021 Gina Beck (Nellie) & Julian Ovenden (Emile) in 'South Pacific'Johan Persson We’ve come to learn what socially distanced means but, 72 years ago, the distance that concern...

Verdict: A tropical treat Rating: Chichester Festival Theatre is back, with a big summer musical that lives up to the swooning lyrics of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s terrific old showboater, and provides sustenance for those of us hungering for live entertainment. Some enchanted evening? You betcha. What a joy it is to see a full company, led by Gina Beck and Julian Ovenden, swirling through their paces in Daniel Evans’s ravishing and well-oiled production, with gorgeous Technicolor set design by Peter McKintosh. I still think of the 1949 musical about American marines in Worl...

Updated Gina Beck and Julian in South Pacific. Photo by Johan Persson Is this the most significant production in Chichester Festival Theatre’s history? It certainly feels that way. Twice I have covered come-back shows as the CFT has stumbled back from the brink of bankruptcy long years ago. But this feels even more special, a confident, resurgent theatre reasserting itself after a global pandemic which has floored us all. So let’s pray that South Pacific doesn’t prove a hostage to fortune. Who knows whether Covid isn’t ultimately going to have the final word this time round as well.

South Pacific is a perfect lesson in how to stage a giddy, romantic, wartime musical 5/5 At Chichester Festival Theatre, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 escapist show is full of gorgeous music, high spirits and serious smarts 'A gladdening sight and pulse-quickening sound': South Pacific Credit: Johan Persson My, how I’ve missed Chichester Festival Theatre – finally flinging open its doors for a proper summer season. And my, how I’ve missed the gladdening sight and pulse-quickening sound of a major American musical done to perfection.  Just to see a large cast dancing, and singing its...

CFT summer SOUTH PACIFIC. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener. Directed by Daniel Evans. 5 July – 4 September 2021, live in the Festival Theatre. Streamed as live on 4, 9, 14, 18, 21, 26, 31 August & 3 September Led by Gina Beck (Matilda, Show Boat, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera) as Nellie, Julian Ovenden (Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Merrily We Roll Along, Grand Hotel, BBC Proms) as Emile, Joanna Ampil (Avenue Q, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon) as Bloody Mary, Keir Charles (Quiz, ...