South Pacific

    Prejudice. It's World War II in the South Pacific. Nellie Forbush, a young woman from Little Rock, has become an ensign in the armed forces. She believes she is less prejudiced about other races than her parents were, but when she's faced with reality that Emile De Becque, the Frenchman with whom she's fallen in love, has fathered children by a Polynesian woman, she is repulsed. By the show's end, she loses her prejudice, partly because she's seen and sanctioned the love of a young lieutenant and a Polynesian girl.
    The plot draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, combining elements of several of the stories in that book
Synopsis (c) Peter Filichia

1983