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On Thursday night, Lincoln Center Theatre opened its rapturous revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, with Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot giving amazing performances as lovers Nellie Forbush and Emile DeBecque.
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Director Bartlett Sher, a two-time Tony Award nominee for his previous Lincoln Center work, is a strong contender to take home the prize this year.
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Matthew Morrison, who worked with O'Hara and Sher in LCT's The Light in the Piazza, is stunning as the troubled Joe Cable.
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Danny Burstein, who is hilarious as cut-up Luther Billis, was joined at the show's party by wife Rebecca Luker, currently starring in Broadway's Mary Poppins.
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Broadway newcomers Li Jun Li and Loretta Ables Sayre play mother-and-daughter Liat and Bloody Mary.
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Stage and television favorite Skipp Sudduth portrays the hard-nosed Captain Brackett.
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The opening night featured a rare appearance by Alice Hammerstein Matthias, lyricist Oscar Hammerstein's daughter.
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Here's Richard Rodgers' daughter, Mary Rodgers Guettel, composer of Once Upon a Mattress and proud mama of Piazza composer-lyricist Adam Guettel.
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Tony winner James Naughton had a good reason to attend the opening: he's Kelli O'Hara's father-in-law.
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Fellow Tony winner Dick Latessa came out to cheer Morrison, his co-star in the original Broadway company of Hairspray.
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Here's Hairspray director Jack O'Brien, who also won Tony Awards for his work at Lincoln Center on The Coast of Utopia and Henry IV.
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Susan Stroman, director of the current Broadway hit Young Frankenstein, made a splash at Lincoln Center with the dance-musical Contact.
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Composer Stephen Flaherty is no stranger to Lincoln Center, which has produced his musicals A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose, and The Glorious Ones.
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William Finn had his landmark musical A New Brain presented at Lincoln Center.
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Finally, here's the ageless Broadway star Alice Playten, a veteran of such legendary musicals as Gypsy and Hello, Dolly!
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