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When most people think of the musical "South Pacific," either stage or movie versions, they think of the lush score with such numbers as "Some Enchanted Evening," "Bali Ha'i" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."

A group of middle schoolers getting ready to perform their spring musical later this week got advice from a pro Tuesday when a Broadway performer stopped by their Lansing school.

Carmen Cusack has played some of the most exciting roles on Broadway, the West End, and even at sea.

When "Les Miserables" first came to Wharton Center, I snuck a peek into the orchestra pit and was shocked to find five synthesizers lined up where the violins should have been. This has become a common occurrence in Broadway musicals. Musicians are expensive to hire.

Keala Settle didn't know it growing up, but she and a future character she'd play had a lot in common.

'South Pacific," which first thrilled audiences and critics in 1949, just five years after the end of World War II, shows why it's a Broadway classic in its national tour, which opened at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday.

The South Pacific playing at the Bushnell now through April 25, is the National Tour of the Lincoln Center’s multi-praised revival, and is virtually the same production which in 2008 won seven Tony ® awards. A Houston Chronicle review states: “Superbly sung and powerfully acted, the touring cast of the magnificent Lincoln Center Theater restoration of South Pacific is the equal of the New York team.” Although I did not see the NYC production, based upon what I saw here in Hartford, I’m comfortable agreeing with Houston’s assessment.

Placing herself on a island in the Pacific shouldn’t be too much of a stretch for Keala Settle who grew up on the North Shore of Oahu, and who is now appearing in the Lincoln Center Theater’s reinvention of “South Pacific.”

For years, the call for a major revival of "South Pacific" was like a siren song from Bali Ha'i — steady and seductive, tempting lovers of the 1949 hit musical who yearned to return to a special place, yet wary that it wouldn't be quite the same.