Six years ago, Jay Frisby appeared on Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre stage as a high school student at Glenelg Country School competing for a prestigious Cappies Award. This week, he is back at the Hippodrome performing as a professional in the big-budget national tour of "South Pacific."

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” which traces the goings-on at a U.S. Naval base during World War II, is very much steeped in the past. But for two performers in a new touring production of the classic, the musical’s themes hit close to home.

SOUTH PACIFIC endures in this production (and will in others) because it centers on two love stories that are “lovely beyond description.”

When the musical “South Pacific” premiered in 1949, one song was so controversial that composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein had to defend it.

The classic musical South Pacific is kicking off its tour in Boston. One of the stars of the show, Shane Donovan, is a local guy from Abington. He stopped by the Beacon Hill studio to chat with VB about his role in the show.

Tuesday is opening night for a new off-Broadway show in Boston, Mass. - and a local man from Massachusetts is one of the show's stars!

There is something very poetic about Laura Pavles playing the role of Lt. Genevieve Marshall in a newly revamped "South Pacific."

Just a decade after appearing in his first musical, “The Sound of Music,” while a freshman at Brockton’s Cardinal Spellman High School, Abington native Shane Donovan is about to make his first appearance on a Boston stage and his national tour debut in another Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, “South Pacific,” which heads back out on the road next week with a new company of actors opening at the Boston Opera House.

South Pacific, the ageless Rodgers and Hammerstein classical was first performed in 1949, and will be launching its national tour in Boston on Sept. 27.

Here is FOX CT interview with South Pacific's Katie Reid (Nellie Forbush), followed by a performance of "A Wonderful Guy."