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The Sweetest Sound.(Kelli O'Hara )
Byline: Adam Green. editor: Valerie Steiker
If one were of a mystical bent, one could make a case that some kind of karmic bond exists between the lovely musical-theater actress Kelli O'Hara and the legendary songwriting team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. O'Hara grew up on a farm in Elk City, Oklahoma, and the first musical she ever saw, at age four, was Oklahoma! Wait, it gets better. In 2005, she made a splash with her performance in The Light in the Piazza, whose score is by Adam Guettel, Richard Rodgers's grandson. Now O'Hara is poised to take the stage at Lincoln Center Theater in the first Broadway revival of South Pacific, the team's Pulitzer-winning 1949 classic about romance and racism on a South Seas island.
Last seen on Broadway giving a ball-of-fire turn opposite Harry Connick, Jr., in The Pajama Game, O'Hara is reunited here with her Piazza director, Bartlett Sher. Stepping into a role originated by Mary Martin, O'Hara is Ensign Nellie Forbush, a self-described "cockeyed optimist" from Arkansas, who ...
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