SOUTH PACIFIC on LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER? Maybe?

Yup. Just got a call from a pal of mine who works over at Lincoln Center and he just learned that they are negotiating with the Hammerstein Estate to possibly air the current SOUTH PACIFIC revival as part of PBS's LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER series.

Here's hoping a deal IS struct and this does air. They allowed the recent Carnegie Hall concert with Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell to be filmed (not by PBS, but a private company), so hopefully since LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER has a restricted amount of airings and no home video release, they might say yes.

Keeping my fingers crossed, that would be awesome.

I would love for the to air it but I dont think it will happen

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This would be great!

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The fact that PIAZZA was taped without the original cast was an utter shame.

I disagree. I wouldn't have tuned in if I had to sit through Kellli O'Hara's "performance" a second time. I hope they film South Pacific after she leaves as well.

Totes would love it.

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Contact was also not the original cast though...

Contact and Piazza were broadcast LIVE at the closing day matinee. That's why the show is called "LIVE from Lincoln Center." And that's why they weren't the original casts. They were done on closing day, so it couldn't possibly hurt ticket sales.