by Joan Swirsky, ©2023 Screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf6ITsjsgk (Nov. 20, 2023) — [This article was first published at The Post & Email on July 18, 2021 and slightly revised on November 18, 2023.] In 1949, the trailblazing anti-racist musical “South Pacific”––created by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II––debuted on Broadway to wild critical acclaim, running […]
