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Seabee Luther Billis (Greg Fine) tries to talk Lt. Joseph Cable (J.C. Lawler) into getting hold of a boat to travel to nearby island Bali Ha’i as Bloody Mary (Judy Clothier) offers encouragement in PCA’s production of “South Pacific,” directed by Frank Malle.

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Where else but in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical can you find a May-December romance, a dealer in shrunken heads, a Seabee who schemes to get hold of boar’s teeth (and falls out of an airplane), a love affair cut short by death in combat, and a Thanksgiving pageant, all viewed through the lens of the characters’ racial prejudices?

By Scott Orr June 12, 2016