Kelli O'Hara to Return to South Pacific

Kelli O'Hara, the original star of the current revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific currently playing at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theatre, will be returning to the show on August 10th to play out the last two weeks of the show's run.  Tony winner Paulo Szot will return August 6th to play out the final weeks of the show with other original cast members Danny Burstein and Loretta Ables Sayre.  The show will be broadcast nationally on August 18th as part of the PBS series Live From Lincoln Center.

Hamlet in the South Pacific Seas? A Plantation in Elsinore?

The title of this post may sound odd, but it was meant to be so.  That is because the event it describes is just as odd.  Well, maybe not odd, but it is definitely unique.  According to an article on Broadway.com, David Pittsinger seems to be living in a world which could justly be described by the above title.  This coming Saturday, Mr. Pittsinger is going to become possibly the first person to appear in both a Broadway show and an opera in the same day.  For the Saturday matinee, he will be playing Emile de Becque in South Pacific at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center and, a few hours later, walk the 30 or so feet to his dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera where he will prepare to play the ghost of Hamlet's father in their production of Hamlet.  While there are no official statistics about this, it is believed that this is a first for any performer.  For more information on the interesting occurrence, read the full article at the link below!

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/broadway-star-to-opera-star-all-in-a-day/