Tales of the South Pacific

I don't know where it was lost, but he found it.

You also share a birthday with Norman Rockwell, who was born in 1894, and James A. Michener, who was a novelist, wrote Hawaii, Tales of the South Pacific, Bridges, and Joey Bishop was born on this day in 1918.

Do you remember the Joey, how many remember the Joey Bishop show?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

It

won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1950, which, you know, was about two years after James A. Mishner won the Pulitzer Prize for Tales of the South Pacific.

And it ended up winning 10, 20

awards.

So that's kind of what my biggest musical lyrical lingo was, you know.

So Rodgers and Hammerstein attempted to use Broadway theatre to make a courageous statement against racist bigotry in general and institutional racism in the post-war United States in particular.

Although Tales of the South Pacific treats the question of racism, it does not give it the central place.

Yeah.

And again, it's a novel, but Michener was actually stationed in the South Pacific during World War II.

And his original, his debut book was nonfiction, and it was called Tales of the South Pacific, and it became the musical South Pacific.

So his portrait of the island is this idyllic place where everybody was having a fabulous time up until this horrible military attack.

fits with a lot of what they said in this special.