Thursday: South Pacific in Concert at Olney Theatre Center

For one night only, Olney Theatre Center takes audiences to the South Pacific for a concert production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musical. Set during World War II, the 1949 classic follows two love stories set in—where else?—the South Pacific, where French expatriates dominate the indigenous Polynesians, a dynamic complicated by the arrival of White U.S. military personnel. William Michals reprises his longtime role as Emile de Becque, a French plantation owner, who falls in love with nurse Nellie Forbush (Jessica Lauren Ball), a Southerner who cannot accept his mixed-race children by his late Polynesian wife. In parallel, Lt. Joseph Cable (Ben Lurye) falls in love with a local woman, Liat (Justine Icy Moral), but is hes

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