OCTOBER 11-19, 2025

SOUTH PACIFIC

  • Saturday, October 11 @7pm

    Sunday, October 12 @ 2pm

    Friday, October 17 @ 7pm

    Saturday, October 18 @ 2pm

    Saturday, October 18 @ 7pm

    Sunday, October 19 @ 2pm


  • Season General auditions: June 2 & 3

    Callbacks: Monday, August 4th, 6-10 pm

    Rehearsals: begin August 25, 2025 (M/T/W/TH 6:00-10pm, Sat 12pm-5 pm)

  • Director: Randall Dodge

    Assistant Director / Choreographer: Karl Miller

    Music Director: Jim VanDeusen

  • Ensign Nellie Forbush – A nurse from Arkansas
    Emile De Becque – An expatriate French plantation owner
    Ngana – Emile’s young, half-Polynesian daughter
    Jerome – Emile’s young, half-Polynesian son
    Henry – Emile’s native servant
    Bloody Mary – A Tonkinese native, expert at trading with the military men
    Liat – Bloody Mary’s daughter
    Bloody Mary's Assistant
    Luther Billis – A sailor, Seabee*
    Abner
    Stewpot (Carpenter's Mate Second Class, George Watts)
    Professor – A sailor
    Lt. Joseph Cable, United States Marine Corps
    Capt. George Brackett, United States Navy – The highest ranking officer
    Cmdr. William Harbison, United States Navy – The second-highest ranking officer
    Lt. Buzz Adams
    Yeoman Herbert Quale – A sailor
    Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey – A sailor
    2 Seabees*
    2 Sailors
    3 Marines
    A Shore Patrolman
    Lead Nurse (originally named Lt. Genevieve Marshall)
    Ensign Dinah Murphy
    Ensign Janet MacGregor
    7 Ensigns
    Islanders, Officers, Sailors, Marines, Seabees* and Soldiers

    ENSEMBLE:
    Large singing ensemble consisting of Islanders, Officers, Sailors, Marines, Seabees* and Soldiers

    The story takes place in the South Pacific during World War II. The cast includes Americans and people native to the South Pacific. Those characters native to the area should be cast accordingly. The use of make-up or prosthetics to alter an actor’s ethnicity is prohibited.

    *Seabees are sailors who serve in the Construction Battalion (hence their acronym, C.B.). They are responsible for the construction and maintenance of the bases and their equipment.



 

South Pacific is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals

On a South Pacific island during World War II, Ensign Nellie Forbush, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with French planter Emile de Becque. When Nellie learns that the mother of Emile's children was an island native, she refuses Emile's proposal of marriage, unable to overcome the prejudices with which she was raised. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable falls in love with a Tonkinese girl named Liat, but he, too, denies himself a future due to the same fears that haunt Nellie. When Emile accompanies Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe's life, Nellie chooses to embrace a future with Emile and his children, thus confronting and conquering her prejudices.

Music by Richard Rogers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein

Book by Hammerstein & Joshua Logan

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