Mount Greylock Regional School's spring musical, "South Pacific: In Concert," will be staged at the venue on Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, at 7 p.m.

 

Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the ugliness of prejudice and the perils of war.

 

Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French plantation owner with a past, Emile de Becque. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was a beautiful Polynesian woman and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile’s proposal of marriage.

 

Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he has fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie.

 

Featuring songs like "Some Enchanted Evening," "Nothin' Like a Dame," "Bali Hai," and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa' My Hair," "South Pacific" won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Libretto for Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers in 1950.

 

The adaptation Mount Greylock is staging was created by David Ives in 2006.

 

This production is being mounted by a cast of 24 Mount Greylock students under the direction of Jeffrey Welch. Vocal direction is provided by Kate Caton, and choreography by Ann Marie Rodriguez. In addition, a pit orchestra made up of 17 student and community musicians is being conducted by Lyndon Moors.

 

Tickets are $6 for students/seniors and $8 for adults and can be purchased at the door on show nights.