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Emily H
I have to write an essay on the Reception History of South Pacific. The problem is that since the revival of South Pacific just came out and that it is just that good, I cannot find any information on negative reviews or good reviews from 1949 when it first premiered. If you could tell me where I could find that information I would be most grateful. I Don't need any reviews from the revival and I already looked at New York Times.
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Dear Emily,
I could not find any negative reviews either but thought that you might like to read this bit from Wikipedia.
Critical reception and success
The first out-of-town tryout for South Pacific began on March 7, 1949, at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. After the first performance, Mark Todd, a leading theatre critic, told Mary Martin, who was playing Nellie, not to take the show to New York. Martin was shocked and asked why, and Todd replied, "Because it's too... good for them!" The show moved on to Boston, where it was so successful that playwright George S. Kaufman complained (facetiously) that people in Boston were so excited about the show they shoved money under the doors of the Shubert Theatre. "They don't actually want anything," he joked. "They just want to push money under the doors."[19]
South Pacific opened on Broadway with $400,000 in advance sales. The New York Times and other newspapers published glowing reviews of the show; one critic called it "South Terrific". People were so anxious to obtain tickets that columnist Leonard Lyons wrote a column about the lengths people had gone to in getting them. Because "house seats" were being sold by scalpers for two hundred dollars or more, the attorney general's office threatened to close the show. However, the parties who provided the scalpers with the tickets were never identified, and the show ran without interference. The production grossed $2,635,000, with a $50,600 weekly gross, and ran for 1,925 performances. The national tour began in 1950 and grossed $3,000,000 in the first year making $1,500,000 in profit. The long-playing original cast album, priced at $4.85, sold more than a million copies.
South Pacific won ten Tony Awards, including best musical, best male performer (Pinza), female performer (Martin), best supporting male performer (McCormick), best supporting female performer (Hall), best director (Logan), best book, and best score. In 1950, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. However, the Pulitzer Prize was given to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein only; Joshua Logan was not recognized for his work on the libretto until later.[19] Over time, the critical assessments of the musical have not been tempered. "With South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein rose to new towering heights of success, both commercially and artistically.... The veteran producer Arthur Hammerstein called it 'the greatest musical show Broadway had ever seen, perfect in every respect.' The critic Richard Watts, Jr., described it as 'a thrilling and exultant musical play, an utterly captivating work of theatrical art.'"[20] Critic John Simon wrote: "Many are the knowledgeable and discriminating people for whom Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, brilliantly co-written and staged by Joshua Logan, was the greatest musical of all."[21]
Dear Emily,
I could not find any negative reviews either but thought that you might like to read this bit from Wikipedia.
Critical reception and success
The first out-of-town tryout for South Pacific began on March 7, 1949, at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. After the first performance, Mark Todd, a leading theatre critic, told Mary Martin, who was playing Nellie, not to take the show to New York. Martin was shocked and asked why, and Todd replied, "Because it's too... good for them!" The show moved on to Boston, where it was so successful that playwright George S. Kaufman complained (facetiously) that people in Boston were so excited about the show they shoved money under the doors of the Shubert Theatre. "They don't actually want anything," he joked. "They just want to push money under the doors."[19]
South Pacific opened on Broadway with $400,000 in advance sales. The New York Times and other newspapers published glowing reviews of the show; one critic called it "South Terrific". People were so anxious to obtain tickets that columnist Leonard Lyons wrote a column about the lengths people had gone to in getting them. Because "house seats" were being sold by scalpers for two hundred dollars or more, the attorney general's office threatened to close the show. However, the parties who provided the scalpers with the tickets were never identified, and the show ran without interference. The production grossed $2,635,000, with a $50,600 weekly gross, and ran for 1,925 performances. The national tour began in 1950 and grossed $3,000,000 in the first year making $1,500,000 in profit. The long-playing original cast album, priced at $4.85, sold more than a million copies.
South Pacific won ten Tony Awards, including best musical, best male performer (Pinza), female performer (Martin), best supporting male performer (McCormick), best supporting female performer (Hall), best director (Logan), best book, and best score. In 1950, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. However, the Pulitzer Prize was given to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein only; Joshua Logan was not recognized for his work on the libretto until later.[19] Over time, the critical assessments of the musical have not been tempered. "With South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein rose to new towering heights of success, both commercially and artistically.... The veteran producer Arthur Hammerstein called it 'the greatest musical show Broadway had ever seen, perfect in every respect.' The critic Richard Watts, Jr., described it as 'a thrilling and exultant musical play, an utterly captivating work of theatrical art.'"[20] Critic John Simon wrote: "Many are the knowledgeable and discriminating people for whom Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, brilliantly co-written and staged by Joshua Logan, was the greatest musical of all."[21]
Where was Twilight on the NY Time Bestsellers list and for how long?
charmedang
I'm just doing a little dinky school assignment but I'm having the hardest time finding when Twilight (first book not the entire series) was on the New York Times Bestsellers list and for how long it was there.
If you could hyperlink the site you got the information from that would be great..thanks in advance.
Please no bashers, I'm actually a "fangirl" I just want an answer to my question..thanks.
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#1 for 7 weeks, [it was also #5 for one week]
http://www.twilightlexiconblog.com/?p=218
i just started reading twilight 2 days ago and i'm on page 250 :] it's one of my favorite books
#1 for 7 weeks, [it was also #5 for one week]
http://www.twilightlexiconblog.com/?p=218
i just started reading twilight 2 days ago and i'm on page 250 :] it's one of my favorite books
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