Title: Misleading
Product review: The title "The Tale of South Pacific" led me to believe this would be a study of the origins of the great R&H show, but it is a kind of glorified scrapbook of the making of the 1958 movie of the show. There is a growing literature about Broadway musicals that is several cuts above this book (for example, Tim Carter's book on "Oklahoma"), and I was disappointed in the Skouras. The text is anecdotal, and it is full of not very well reproduced photographs from the filming of the movie. This is probably a fine book if you'd like a deluxe movie program booklet with pictures of the stars, but not very helpful if you'd like a well-researched, carefully documented study of this fine show.
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