South Pacific: In Concert Debuts at SCC

[caption id="attachment_48654" align="alignnone" width="800"] (Left to right) Doug Sabo, Jose Coropuna, David Hoffman, Rich Gardini, Aaron Kaufman, Jack Seabury, Jonathan Fogarty, Joey Giovingo, and Dennis Milone in “South Pacific.”[/caption]

Center Stage at Southampton Cultural Center will present Rodgers and Hammerstein’s, South Pacific, on Thursday, March 3 through Sunday, March 20 in Southampton Cultural Center’s Levitas Center for the Arts. Thursday performances are at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. The performance will be directed by Michael Disher, with Amanda Borsack Jones serving as musical director.

Set on an island paradise during WWII, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French planter, Emile de Becque. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile’s proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he’s fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie. This concert adaptation was created by David Ives for the Carnegie Hall benefit concert of South Pacific in 2006.

Center Stage’s cast includes Daniel Becker, Jose Coropuna, Julie Crowley, Shannon Dupuis, Jonathan Fogarty, Richard Gardini, Joey Giovingo, David Hoffman, Aaron Kaufman, Brianna Kinnier, Darren Ottati, Dakota Quackenbush, Douglas Sabo, Jack Seabury, Kimet Speed, Christina Stankewicz, Josephine Wallace, Kristin Whiting, Scout Whiting and Edna Winston.

General Admission tickets are $25 and Student Tickets (under 21 with ID) are $12. Tickets can be purchased online at scc-arts.org or by calling (631) 287-4377.