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* AdvertisingByAssociation: A trailer for a theatrical re-release boasts, "From the same Rodgers and Hammerstein who gave you 'Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'."
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* TaughtToHate: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf6ITsjsgk "You've Got to be Carefully Taught"]] is the TropeNamer. Lieutenant Cable, a white American man in an interracial relationship with Tonkinese Liat, becomes angry at his own internalized racial hangups about the romance and breaks out into a song to the effect that bigotry isn't something humans are born with, it's something they learn and, by implication, they should damn well un-learn it. The playwrights were requested to cut the song for being too {{Anvilicious}},[[invoked]] and retorted that its PrejudiceAesop was the point of the whole musical.
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The show has many well known numbers, including "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair," "Younger Than Springtime," "Nothing Like a Dame," "Honey Bun," and "Wonderful Guy."
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: Weaves together two separate stories from James A. Michener's ''Literature/TalesOfTheSouthPacific'', and incorporates characters and events from several others.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: Weaves together two separate stories from James A. Michener's Creator/JamesMichener's ''Literature/TalesOfTheSouthPacific'', and incorporates characters and events from several others.
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* DemotedToExtra: In ''Tales of the South Pacific'', William Harbison was a significant recurring character, a superficially fine officer who proved to have feet of clay. He was originally intended to be a significant character in the musical as well, but as the plot firmed up he was reduced to a minor character with few distinguishing features and little in common with the book's Harbison beyond his name.
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* DemotedToExtra: In ''Tales of the South Pacific'', ''Literature/TalesOfTheSouthPacific'', William Harbison was a significant recurring character, a superficially fine officer who proved to have feet of clay. He was originally intended to be a significant character in the musical as well, but as the plot firmed up he was reduced to a minor character with few distinguishing features and little in common with the book's Harbison beyond his name.
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''South Pacific'' is a [[TheMusical musical]] by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein, originally produced in 1949. It was nominated for ten Tony awards, and won all of them, including the second-ever Tony for Best Musical. ''South Pacific'' is also the only musical to win Best Production, Best Direction, and all four acting awards at one time.
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''South Pacific'' is a [[TheMusical musical]] by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein, originally produced in 1949. It was nominated for ten Tony awards, Awards, and won all of them, including the second-ever Tony for Best Musical. ''South Pacific'' is also the only musical to win Best Production, Best Direction, and all four acting awards at one time.
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->''Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love''
->''When you feel her call you across a crowded room,''
->''Then fly to her side, and make her your own''
->''Or all through your life you may dream all alone!''
-->--"Some Enchanted Evening"
''South Pacific'' is a [[TheMusical musical]] by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein, originally produced in 1949. It was nominated for ten Tony awards, and won all of them, including the second ever Tony for Best Musical. ''South Pacific'' is also the only musical to win Best Production, Best Direction, and all four acting awards at one time.
->''When you feel her call you across a crowded room,''
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->''Or all through your life you may dream all alone!''
-->--"Some Enchanted Evening"
''South Pacific'' is a [[TheMusical musical]] by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein, originally produced in 1949. It was nominated for ten Tony awards, and won all of them, including the second ever Tony for Best Musical. ''South Pacific'' is also the only musical to win Best Production, Best Direction, and all four acting awards at one time.
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->''Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love''
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Then fly to her side, and make her yourown''
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Or all through your life you may dream all alone!''
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''South Pacific'' is a [[TheMusical musical]] by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein, originally produced in 1949. It was nominated for ten Tony awards, and won all of them, including thesecond ever second-ever Tony for Best Musical. ''South Pacific'' is also the only musical to win Best Production, Best Direction, and all four acting awards at one time.
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''South Pacific'' is a [[TheMusical musical]] by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein, originally produced in 1949. It was nominated for ten Tony awards, and won all of them, including the
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* AgeGapRomance: Emile is older than Nellie, old enough for him to feel a little awkward courting her.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Nellie and Emile. Averted in some modern productions which age up Nellie to make her the same age (or almost) as Emile.
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* AdaptationAmalgamation: The musical ties together elements of five stories from ''Literature/TalesOfTheSouthPacific'': "Fo' Dolla'" (Cable and Liat), "Our Heroine" (Nellie and Emile), "The Cave" (the mission to spy on Japanese troop movements), "The Milk Run" (a massive rescue mission to rescue a single downed serviceman), and "A Boar's Tooth" (Luther and the native ceremony). The stories originally had no direct connections or shared characters (apart from the unnamed narrator, and he doesn't have a corresponding character in the musical).
* AdaptationDistillation: In ''Literature/TalesOfTheSouthPacific'', Emile has eight children, of multiple ethnicities, from four earlier relationships. Some of them play significant roles in other stories, but for the story of Emile and Nellie, the ones that matter are the Polynesian ex and the two half-Polynesian children that trigger Nellie's anti-black prejudices, so the musical dispenses with all the rest.
* AdaptationDistillation: In ''Literature/TalesOfTheSouthPacific'', Emile has eight children, of multiple ethnicities, from four earlier relationships. Some of them play significant roles in other stories, but for the story of Emile and Nellie, the ones that matter are the Polynesian ex and the two half-Polynesian children that trigger Nellie's anti-black prejudices, so the musical dispenses with all the rest.
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* CrowdSong: "Bloody Mary," "Nothing Like a Dame," and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."
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* CompositeCharacter:
** Luther Billis is a composite of the book's Luther Billis, a similar character called Atropine Benny, who was the one who facilitated Cable's courtship of Liat, and Bus Adams, who was the focus of the rescue mission in "The Milk Run".
** The spying mission was originally a separate story with unrelated characters; in the musical, Joe and Emile take the place of the original protagonists.
** Captain George Brackett stands in for the various commanding officers in the original short stories.
* CrowdSong: "BloodyMary," Mary" and "Nothing Like a Dame," Dame" are sung by Luther and a crowd of sailors; "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."Hair" is sung by Nellie and a chorus of nurses.
** Luther Billis is a composite of the book's Luther Billis, a similar character called Atropine Benny, who was the one who facilitated Cable's courtship of Liat, and Bus Adams, who was the focus of the rescue mission in "The Milk Run".
** The spying mission was originally a separate story with unrelated characters; in the musical, Joe and Emile take the place of the original protagonists.
** Captain George Brackett stands in for the various commanding officers in the original short stories.
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* DemotedToExtra: In ''Tales of the South Pacific'', William Harbison was a significant recurring character, a superficially fine officer who proved to have feet of clay. He was originally intended to be a significant character in the musical as well, but as the plot firmed up he was reduced to a minor character with few distinguishing features and little in common with the book's Harbison beyond his name.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the book, Joe Cable is killed in action during a big battle (the one that everyone embarks for at the end of the musical); it's a different character, named Anderson, who goes on the spying mission and is killed there. Joe's death in the musical (killed by a Japanese air attack) is also different from Anderson's in the book (captured and beheaded by Japanese ground troops).
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the book, Joe Cable is killed in action during a big battle (the one that everyone embarks for at the end of the musical); it's a different character, named Anderson, who goes on the spying mission and is killed there. Joe's death in the musical (killed by a Japanese air attack) is also different from Anderson's in the book (captured and beheaded by Japanese ground troops).
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- within the adapted story*, Joe Cable doesn't die. But in the story that closes the collection, Joe is killed in the big attack on the Japanese-held island.
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* DeathByAdaptation: In the musical, Joe Cable is killed off. In the original Michener short story, he abandons his lover, his love unable to overcome his racism.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: Weaves together two separate stories from James A. Michener's ''Literature/TalesOfTheSouthPacific''.
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* PrejudiceAesop: The moral of the story is largely about Nellie learning to overcome her suspicion of the non-white members of Emile's family and realize they are the same as anyone else. The show is nowhere more explicit about how unnatural and strange racial hatred is than in the song "You've Got to be Carefully Taught". It explicitly says that hate doesn't come naturally, it gets drummed into people in their youth. When some Southerners asked to cut that song, Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein said "If you cut that song, you might as well cut the whole musical."
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Not to be confused with the 2009 NatureDocumentary series.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Racism is bad, and not a natural state of humanity, as summed up by the song “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Racism is bad, and not a natural state of humanity, as summed up by the song “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”.
