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Fifty years after London first went wild over Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, this high romantic musical of love and death in the Second World War looks set to cast its clever spell all over again. Yet despite its famous songs, its reassuring sentimentality and location in an island paradise far from everywhere, South Pacific is not without its darker, depressing elements.
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Miss Kennedy is more nurse than lover. She reacts to Philip Quast's plump, shambling Frenchman in a style that's winsome, strait-laced and disconcertingly antiseptic. She bares her teeth rather than her heart. Mr Quast, whose big, operatic voice and manner is not well suited to the musical, fares little better.
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