South Pacific

Staff

... Conductor

Reginald Burston

Cast

... Ngana (alternate)	Patricia Lowi Maxine Aslanoff
... Jerome (alternate)	Leon Garcia Stanley Blackman
... Henry	Michael Mellinger
... Ensign Nellie Forbush	Mary Martin
... Emile de Becque	Wilbur Evans
... Bloody Mary	Muriel Smith
... Bloody Mary's Assistant	Evelyn Dove
... Abner	Archie Savage
... Stewpot	Bill Nagy
... Luther Billis	Fredd Wayne
... Professor	Wally Peterson
... Lt. Joseph Cable, U.S.M.C.	Peter Grant
... Capt. George Brackett, U.S.N.	John McLaren
... Cmdr. William Harbison, U.S.N.	John Harvey (i)
... Yeoman Herbert Quale	Larry Hagman
... Seabee Richard West	Henry Goodner
... Seabee Morton Wise	A. J. Powell Bristow
... Seaman Tom O'Brien	Raymond Buckingham
... Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey	David Williams (iii)
... Marine Cpl. Hamilton Steeves	Paul Dobson
... Staff Sgt. Thomas Hassinger	Glen Fontane
... Pvt. Sven Larsen	Andrew Cole
... Pt. Victor Jerome	Desmond D'Arcy
... Sgt. Waters	Hayes Nicholas
... Lt. Genevieve Marshall	Patricia Hartley
... Ensign Dinah Murphy	Barbara Whiting
... Ensign Janet MacGregor	Deidre De Peyer
... Ensign Cora MacRae	Eileen Sands
... Ensign Sue Yaeger	Margaret Miles
... Ensign Lisa Minelli	Louise Ramsay
... Ensign Connie Walewska	June Charlier
... Ensign Pamela Whitmore	Dorothy Laroque
... Ensign Bessie Noonan	Patricia Hall (ii)
... Ensign Betty Pitt	Rosalie Whitham
... Liat	Betta St. John
... Marcel (Henry's Assistant)	Neville Crabbe
... Lt. Buzz Adams	Gerald Metcalfe
... Ensemble	Stanley Howlett Victor Harman

Tracks

This was filmed at a special performance with no audience on May 6, 1952. As far as we know, this is the only time that Rodgers and Hammerstein filmed a major stage production of one of their shows. The desire to have this particular staging preserved may have been because of a conflict that occurred between Rodgers and Joshus Logan when Logan restaged some of the show for the national tour. Rodgers protested the changes, insisting that what had worked originally should be maintained. Logan felt it necessary to alter the original staging to some degree to suit the different personalities of the different actors in the tour cast. Rodgers relented and allowed the restaging for the tour.

When it came time for the London production, Jerome Whyte (whom Rodgers trusted) was sent over to recreate the original Broadway staging, although Logan did arrive near the end of rehearsals. Somewhat different accounts of what happened when Logan arrived appear in books by Logan and Rodgers, but it does seem that Logan did not try to restage anything.