'South Pacific' cast meets veterans of modern wars
Hedy Weiss: As soon as director Bartlett Sher began rehearsals for the 2008 Lincoln
Center revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" -- which,
amazingly, marked the musical's only Broadway production since its
debut in 1949 -- he arranged for the cast to meet veterans and military
historians of both World War II and the war in Iraq. But why did it take six decades for the show to find its way back to Broadway?