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Younger than Springtime: William Tabbert and Betta St. John played Marine Lt. Joseph Cable and his islander sweetheart Liat in the 1949 production; below, Matthew Morrison and Li Jun Li take on those parts in the Lincoln Center revival. Courtesy the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization
All Things Considered, April 3, 2008 · One of the most popular musicals of all time — Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific — gets its very first Broadway revival tonight. It’s been close to 60 years since the show opened, but the cast and creative team of the new production say they find South Pacific as resonant as ever.
And that’s a tall order: When South Pacific opened on April 7, 1949, its World War II story and setting had a torn-from-the- headlines feeling.
“Every single person that night in April knew someone who had been in World War II,” says musical-theater historian Larry Maslon. “Every second person must’ve known someone who was in the South Pacific in World War II — and I would imagine at least every fourth person knew someone who died in World War II. And that’s very potent, I think, for an audience.”
Of course South Pacific had more than topicality going for it. Inside a candy wrapper of romance, comedy and exoticism, the creators — composer Richard Rodgers, lyricist and co-author Oscar Hammerstein and director and co-author Joshua Logan — presented a story that questioned core American values, with an emphasis on issues of race and power.
“I was always moved by this group of American artists in the ’40s encountering this first major experience of American military power overseas and what it did to people,” says director Bartlett Sher, who’s in charge of the new Lincoln Center revival. “You know, what happens when somebody from Philadelphia and somebody from Arkansas get dropped into this new world, and they have to question everything about who they are and everything about who they think they were and what they believe.”

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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Wine, cheese — and police?
An East Hampton art gallery owner was led away in handcuffs Saturday after she refused to stop serving drinks at an opening bash for a celebrity photo exhibit. As about 200 startled guests looked on, Ruth Kalb — generally known as Ruth Vered, after her gallery’s name — was arrested on a charge of selling alcohol without a liquor license.
“I told them I’ve been doing this since before they were born,” said Vered, 67, whose gallery has been a fixture of the Hamptons art scene for more than 30 years. “They have some nerve.”
She said the wine and Champagne were free.
Mayor Paul Rickenbach said police were just doing their job.
“It’s not something that’s new and out of the blue at all,” he said.
Vered was throwing the party — during the traditional Memorial Day weekend start of the resort’s summer season — to celebrate an exhibit of photographs of Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Angelina Jolie and other stars.
Vered is due to be arraigned June 25 in East Hampton Town Court.

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Flags around the Valley are flying at half staff in honor of officers killed in the line of duty. Thursday is designated as Peace Officers Memorial Day.
In the past year Nevada has seen two more of its law enforcement officers killed. Both Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribal police officer Adam Menuez and NHP Trooper Kara Kelly-Borgognone were killed in traffic accidents while responding to calls.
A total of 103 peace officer have been killed in the line of duty in the Silver State.

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