Back from perhaps the worst production of South Pacific EVER. There wasn't a single thing that worked - plus so many dress rehearsal problems, the biggest of which is they open tomorrow night. The Emile was heart-rendingly wrong and terrible, with his lovely page boy hairdo. Hard to know what anyone was thinking here. The Nellie was in the Kelli O'Hara mold, but I didn't really like that mold to begin with - Kelli never seemed like a hick from the stick and this gal was even less of that. You bought Mary Martin and I don't know if Sandy Duncan ever did it but I sure would have bought her. This was really from hunger, this was. A band of fifteen. Not good. And a hideous set, mics that didn't work or an operator who couldn't figure out whose mic was supposed to be up. Nice lighting.
