<p>If you want to see a live performance of South Pacific from Lincoln Center, it’s on PBS tonight, 8 pn EST. Kelli O’Hara and Paulo Szot have returned to reprise their Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque. I guess no return of Matthew Morrison, however. :(</p>
<p>Nice. I will try to watch - not sure if everyone else here will agree with my choice!</p>
<p>I saw this production live. It was fabulous.</p>
<p>My mother had the album from the 1940’s production- a favorite of mine. Too bad the BBC “The Choir” falls in the middle of it tonight so I may skip the middle.</p>
<p>Not on our PBS - we have pledge drive week on WQED, so they are showing a 2 hour Ed Sullivan retrospective! Bummer. I’ll have to search and see if they will be rebroadcasting it later.</p>
<p>OK, it is on Sunday afternoon here. Thanks for the heads-up.</p>
<p>We are taping it for our kids.</p>
<p>I saw it onstage also. wonderful, wonderful production!! I will have to see if I can record it. PBS usually repeats.</p>
<p>Watched some while on the treadmill. D has it Tivo’d so we’ll watch the whole show together.</p>
<p>I saw it in NYC with Kelly O.H. and Paul Z too. They were superb and the entire production was fabulous! I am DVR’ing it for later viewing with the family.</p>
<p>Shoot! Why do I always find out about these things after the fact? There is so seldom something worthwhile on TV.</p>
<p>S & I were watching a good movie tonight, however; Ed Wood. Tim Burton movie starring Johnny Depp!</p>
<p>This is a beautiful production of South Pacific. Paulo Szot was wonderful and deserved his Tony for his portrayal of Emile. I loved Kelli O’Hara in this show, probably my favorite performance of hers, and I’m glad that she returned for the broadcast. While it’s nice for Lincoln Center to broadcast some of their shows, it doesn’t compare to being there live. Stage shows are not designed to be broadcast and they lose something in the translation. </p>
<p>Missypie, Matthew was unable to return due to his Glee commitments.</p>
<p>I caught the last hour or so, thanks to the heads up. The camera work was well done, and this was one of those programs that looked really life-like in HD. For those of us that can’t afford theater trips this was a nice treat.</p>
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<p>I know, I know. It’s just that when we saw it in NY, we missed him by just a couple of weeks.</p>
<p>I just realized that I gave my thread an unfortunate title - it was on on Wednesday, Aug 18.</p>
<p>I saw the original live as well but really enjoyed watching it again on PBS. South Pacific is a paraiha in this house because the high school did an awful production of it a few years back and now I can’t get my kids to even think about seeing it. We have such a terrible theatre program - ugh!</p>
<p>Great show–thanks for the heads up! I would have forgotten this if not for my CC habit. I thought all the leads were wonderful.</p>
<p>Often specials like this are later sold as DVDs, so maybe this will be available for purchase later.</p>
<p>I remember (MANY years ago) seeing *Into the Woods *and Sunday in the Park with George on what must have been PBS broadcasts. So nice for all of us who rarely get to New York.</p>
<p>Still have a taped copy of Sunday in the Park with George. Fabulous Bernadette Peters.</p>
<p>Thanks, missypie. I didn’t get to watch, alas, but let my mom know and she LOVED it.</p>
<p>I watched the first act of last night’s re-broadcast (got too sleepy to last longer than that). It was very interesting to have all the close-ups–Kelli O’Hara’s acting was very subtle and rich in a way that couldn’t be appreciated from a theater seat. She is extraordinary. It looks like Paulo Szot packed on a few pounds since I saw him two years ago; he seemed corseted within an inch of his life and really wide in the backside. I have to say I really disliked the guy playing Joe Cable–nice voice but no actor. Seeing the daughters of Rogers and Hammerstein at intermission was lovely–they described how people commonly gasp at their first sight at the full orchestra and tear up at the overture–and often continue to cry throughout the entire show. My reaction was very similar, and I’m so glad I saw the show with the original cast. I see quite a few Broadway musicals, but South Pacific was the most unforgettable. I think I may have to buy the DVD of the PBS performance.</p>