TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT. Emile sees his dream of paradise fading away (THIS NEARLY WAS MINE). With nothing to lose, both Cable and Emile are feeling the recklessness of lost love, and with that recklessness comes the willingness to take greater risks. They embark on their spy mission to a neighbouring island where, for a few days, the plan works and they are able to transmit messages of Japanese naval manoeuvrings. Eventually they are discovered, however; Cable is killed, and radio contact with Emile is cut off. Faced with the sudden realisation that she may have lost Emile, Nellie is able to put her fears and meaningless prejudices into perspective and realises that her love for him and the things he stands for is paramount. She makes her way to his home and is giving lunch to his two children, whom she loves as her own when Emile returns. He is weary, he is battle-worn, but he is alive, reunited with his children, and with Nellie. CHARACTERS • ENSIGN NELLIE FORBUSH - By her own admission, a cock-eyed optimist and a hick. She never believed that she would have to make the difficult choice about Emile, but the risk of losing him in action brings everything into sharp focus. • LUTHER BILLIS - A Seabee who rates himself as a great entrepreneur in the tourist souvenir business, but is constantly outsmarted by Bloody Mary. He is everybody's chum and general help-mate. • LT. JOSEPH CABLE - Very formal and organised at first, he is thrown into confusion by meeting Liat and the high-risk expedition to find the Japanese outpost is the only way of resolving the inner conflict of racial difference into which he has been plunged. • CAPT. BRACKET - Rather pompous officer, but seemingly in tune with the local circumstances. • COMDR. HARBISON - His organised back-up. • EMILE DE BECQUE - A man of stature and dignity, who realises where his great chance of happiness lies and has to be honest about his past, even if he risks losing all. His taking part in the dangerous mission is proof of another sterling side of his nature. • BLOODY MARY - Tokinese, shrewd and too much in command of the souvenir trade to be threatened by Billis. She is also a manipulative mother when the occasion (called Lt. Cable) - arises. • LIAT - A touchingly portrayed little girl in an adult world. MUSICAL NUMBERS: Overture - Orchestra • DUET - La vie est belle - (Ngana and Jerome) - "Dites-moi, pourquoi la vie est belle" • Underscore • SONG - A Cockeyed Optimist - (Nellie) - "When the sky is a bright canary yellow" • Underscore • DUET - Twin Soliloquies - (Emile and Nellie) - "Wonder how I'd feel" • Underscore • Introduction to "Some Enchanted Evening" • SONG - Some Enchanted Evening - (Emile) - "Some enchanted evening you may see a stranger" • Encore - "Some Enchanted Evening" • Finaletto Scene 1 - (Ngana, Jerome and Emile) • MALE CHORUS - Bloody Mary - "Bloody Mary is the girl I love" • MALE CHORUS - There Is Nothing Like a Dame" - (Male Chorus & soloists) - "We got sunlight on the sand" • Underscore • SONG - Bali Ha'i - (Bloody Mary) - "Mos' people live on a lonely island"
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