![]() Lee Ross is announced as Luther Billis, joining the previously announced Julian Ovenden as Emile de Becque alongside Gina Beck as Ensign Nellie Forbush, Rob Houchen as Lieutenant Joseph Cable, Joanna Ampil as Bloody Mary and Sera Maehara as Liat. Jamie Wilson, Jonathan Church Theatre Productions and Gavin Kalin are delighted to announce the full cast for the Sadler’s Wells season and UK and Ireland Tour of the critically acclaimed, landmark Chichester Festival Theatre production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. ![]() Gina Beck and Julian Ovenden in Chichester Festival Theatre’s South Pacific. War rages, including in the hearts of Cable and Nellie as they struggle with their prejudices and the changing world around them.Full casting has been announced full for the Sadler’s Wells season and UK and Ireland Tour of the critically acclaimed, landmark Chichester Festival Theatre production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. This information makes it possible for a major offensive, Operation Alligator, to start. The men get to the island undetected and are able to get communications back to headquarters about the enemy’s position. Emile mourns for the relationship that was almost his and agrees now to go with Cable on the spy mission behind enemy lines because now neither has much to lose. Upset and confused, Emile asks Cable why she feels this way, and he says it is something that is taught at a young age. He is tempted but ultimately refuses, and Bloody Mary angrily drags Liat away.Īfter the show, Emile approaches Nellie and asks her to reconsider marrying him, but she still cannot let her prejudices go about his children’s Polynesian mother. Now Bloody Mary pushes Cable to marry Liat and live a carefree life on the island. During the show, Cable leaves to see Liat. On Thanksgiving Day, the GIs and nurses perform in a revue called “Thanksgiving Follies” that Nellie has helped put together. Nellie cannot overcome her racial prejudice and leaves. Meanwhile, Emile introduces Ngana and Jerome to her, and she is shocked when she realizes they are his children by his first wife, a dark-skinned Polynesian women. Thus, Commander Harbison tells Cable to go on leave until the mission can take place and Cable, Billis, and Bloody Mary go to Bali Ha’i where Bloody Mary introduces Cable to her daughter, Liat. ![]() He also expresses his love for her and asks her to marry him, and she realizes how much she loves him in return.Įmile declines to accompany Cable on the spy mission because of his hopes for a new life with Nellie. However, before she has the chance to break things off, Emile reveals why he had to leave France: a story about a bully he stood up to and accidently killed in France long ago. They ask for Nellie’s help in learning more about him, and she realizes she doesn’t know him well and decides to end the relationship with him. The military plans to ask Emile to accompany him because he used to live there. George Brackett and Commander William Harbison.Ĭable has been assigned to a dangerous spy mission to another nearby island, now held by the Japanese. Cable declines and reports to the island’s commanding officers, Capt. Marine Lieutenant Joseph Cable arrives on the island, Bloody Mary tries to persuade him to visit Bali Ha’i which only officers can go to, and Billis offers to help him get a boat. A feisty native nicknamed Bloody Mary flirts with the sailors and joins in their fun. Meanwhile on the beach, Luther Billis and the American sailors lament about the shortage of available women (since Navy nurses are commissioned officers and off-limits to enlisted men). Nellie, promising to think about the future of their relationship, rushes back to the hospital for her shift. Ensign Nellie Forbush, a young American nurse stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II, has met and fallen in love with Emile de Becque, a middle-aged French plantation owner.
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