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As on Broadway, the star of this touring "South Pacific" is helmer Bartlett Sher ... Her usual comic foil, Luther Billis, is played here by Matthew Saldivar, who makes this sailor less a clown ...
The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival is now presenting a breathtaking and visually stunning production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific. The beautiful ...
As Luther Billis, he is a standout who shows a real star quality, blending broad humor with a big hearted performance. He gives a classically funny rendition of “Honey Bun.” Robert John ...
San Diego Musical Theatre’s production of “South Pacific” is enchanting and ... war juxtaposed with light-hearted numbers like “Honey Bun,” a comedic song in Act II that has American ...
With “South Pacific ... riotously funny Luther Billis, particularly in leading the sailors through “There is Nothing Like a Dame,” and opposite Mueller in “Honey Bun.” ...
Controversial upon the musical’s debut, the song sadly still rings true today. On a lighter note, Doug Dawson’s Luther ... “Honey Bun.” I’m glad I chose not to read my previous “South ...
Brushed up and pepped up, a highly respectable revival of “South Pacific ... Luther Billis, the wheeler-dealer swabbie who dons grass skirt, blond wig and a coconut bra to play “Honey Bun ...
South Pacific premiered April ... (Bloody Mary), and Myron McCormick (Luther Billis). The production also received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the second musical to claim the honor.
When the curtain opens on "South Pacific," garish, orange-pink flowers larger than the musical's star ... David Warshofsky as Seabee Luther Billis and the whole company of Seabees are a strong ...
In 1949, when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II adapted James Michener’s “Tales of the South Pacific” to the musical stage ... anything-for-a-buck Luther Billis, whose unrequited ...
For a long time, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific had the reputation of ... Matthew Saldivar's wildly malapropism-prone Luther Billis, meanwhile, is more than just comic relief - here's ...
At the moment, that is the glorious condition in which one finds the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, where an intoxicating new "South Pacific" is staking a claim as the best revival of ...