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"South Pacific" is one hot Broadway revival.
(By Joan Marcus/philip Rinaldi Publicity Via Associated Press)
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The Tony Awards are June 15, which means that we'll soon know the outcome of this year's most hotly contested race: Best Actress in a Musical. If their respective marquees are any indication, Patti LuPone ("Gypsy") and Kelli O'Hara ("South Pacific") are giving the performances of their careers.
In other words, there's never been a better time to play hooky from work on a Wednesday, zip up to New York for a matinee of one of these Broadway classics and then an evening performance of the other. It's a decadent idea, admittedly, but that's exactly what I did a few weeks back.
I won't spoil it for you except to say that Broadway is back with a vengeance, and these two first-class revivals are only part of the fun. If you hurry, you can catch two terrific exhibits at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (adjacent to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, where "South Pacific" plays; info at http:/
First, there's "Writing to Character: Songwriters & the Tony Awards," closing June 14. The exhibit draws on the library's collection of theater minutia: from a marked-up original script of "My Fair Lady," to Boris Aronson's model for the ingenious set of Stephen Sondheim's "Company," to the piece of paper on which Jonathan Larson, while writing "Rent," calculated how many minutes there are in a year (525,600, as every theater lover knows).
Also at the library is "New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World," through June 28. One of America's greatest choreographers, Robbins was equally at home in the worlds of classical ballet and Broadway. Fans of such shows as "Fiddler and the Roof" can see clips of the famous bottle dance and view lots of material from "West Side Story" and other now-classic musicals.
