South Pacific Last Night
South Pacific Last Night
#1South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:41am
I expected so much more from the production, especially after hearing all the good word of mouth. Kelli O'Hara's performance was at best mediocre, and would Bartlett Sher please tell Matthew Morrison to stop hamming it up. Matthew's performance to me was the biggest disappointment of all. I felt the transitions from backstage to the front of the stage during the Thanksgiving Follies were annoying, as well as of the sailors tearing down the set when the follies was over.
Please put Kelli in a regular's sailor's uniform during the Honey Bun number, and she needs to really shampoo her hair and get wet when she sing "I'm Gonna Wash...." (The chorus girls mopping up the stage with their feet and towels was ridiculous.)
#2re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:48am
I enjoyed it. I thought Kelli seemed rather whooped when I saw it (wednesday matinee), but other than that I had none of the problems you encountered. I thought it was a much darker take on the piece, which I really enjoyed. As for Matthews performance, it was a tad over the top but the entire book is borderline over the top for most of the show.
I think Bartlett's a fantastic director and I am certain I wouldn't have enjoyed the show half as much with another director.
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#3re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/21/08 at 12:26pmShe washes her hair.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#4re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/21/08 at 12:29pmShe kind of washes her hair. It looks like she puts pre-existing foam in her hair and swishes it around.
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#5re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/21/08 at 12:29pmThe song's not titled "I'm Gonna Dampen My Hair....".
being.jeremiah
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#6re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/21/08 at 12:42pm
And they're not in the Pacific either! I thought they were giving everyone plane tickets and transport the audience to the islands.
I want a refund.
#7re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/21/08 at 1:30pmFunny: you thought Matthew Morrison was too hammy; I thought that he barely registered. I guess we can just both agree that he's miscast.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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#8re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/23/08 at 11:43pmI saw it today 3/23 with Andrew Samonsky as Lt. Cable and I thought he gave a great performance and his voice is among the most beautiful I have ever heard. Perhaps I am lucky that Matthew Morrison wasn't there today?
#9re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/24/08 at 12:03am
I saw it this afternoon as well Steve, and thought Andrew was WONDERFUL!! What a fantastic way to spend an afternoon.
Updated On: 3/24/08 at 12:03 AM
chrisampm2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/26/07
#10re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/24/08 at 1:13am
Me three re Samonsky. I thought he made sense of the most difficult character in the piece. Haunted by the horrors of war, determined to risk his life for a country that he loves and loathes, in love with a girl he can barely speak to - and his songs go really high. Samonsky stitched it all together effortlessly. God knows what he'd do with significant rehearsal and stage time.
I also have to sing the praises of Steve2, whose generosity, kindness, and intelligence bring honor to this board.
#11re: South Pacific Last Night
Posted: 3/24/08 at 1:21am
I'm glad everyone's being so supportive of the understudy, Andrew Samonsky! But I LOVED Morrison's performance when I saw it. Just to throw in another opinion.
And "Please put Kelli in a regular's sailor's uniform during the Honey Bun number, and she needs to really shampoo her hair and get wet when she sing "I'm Gonna Wash...." (The chorus girls mopping up the stage with their feet and towels was ridiculous.)"
What do you mean by a regular sailor's uniform? You mean a tighter- fitting one? The large uniform is a gag that has existed since the original. Check out Mary Martin: 
I didn't find anything odd with the amount of shampoo- ing and water during "I'm Gonna Wash..." I think if the water was enough to get her entire head and also entire bathing suit soaked (which it was at the performance I saw), that was fully sufficient. After all, in reality, they didn't have a lot of water or shampoo to go around considering rations while being nurses overseas.
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