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By the time "South Pacific" closed its run on Broadway, after five years and nineteen hundred and twenty-five performances, it had done its work in the world. The 1949 musical--the first show that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein produced as well as wrote--played to an estimated three and a half million people. It was the second-ever musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, matching the Pulitzer for literature that James Michener won the previous year, for "Tales of the South Pacific," from which Hammerstein and the director Joshua Logan adapted the show. The cast album was the No. 1 album for sixty-nine consecutive weeks. There were "South Pacific" scarves, ...