List of awards and nominations for the musical South Pacific

South Pacific is considered to be one of the greatest Broadway musicals.^[1]^[2] The musical premiered in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950.^[3] The show was a critical and box office hit and has since enjoyed many successful revivals and tours, also spawning a 1958 film and other adaptations.

The original Broadway production won ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Libretto, and it is the only musical production ever to have won all four Tony Awards for acting.^[4] The 2008 Broadway revival was a strong success, winning numerous theatre awards. Its seven Tonys included Best Musical Revival. Sher and Szot also won Tonys, and the production won in all four design categories, also receiving nominations for choreography and for the performances of O'Hara, Burstein and Ables Sayre. It also won five Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical Revival. The late Robert Russell Bennett was recognized that season for "his historic contribution to American musical theatre in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway this season by Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific."^[5]

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

Year	Award Ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
1950	Pulitzer Prize	Drama		Won
	Tony Award^[4]	Best Musical		Won
		Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Ezio Pinza	Won
		Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical	Mary Martin	Won
		Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Myron McCormick	Won
		Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical	Juanita Hall	Won
		Best Producer	Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Leland Hayward and Joshua Logan	Won
		Best Director	Joshua Logan	Won
		Best Libretto	Oscar Hammerstein II	Won
		Best Original Score	Richard Rodgers	Won
		Best Scenic Design	Jo Mielziner	Won

2001 London revival

Year	Award Ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
2001	Laurence Olivier Award^[6]	Best Actor in a Musical	Philip Quast	Won

2001 Television film

Year	Award Ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
2001	Emmy Award	Outstanding Music Direction	Paul Bogaev	Nominated
2001	Emmy Award	Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie	Guntis Sics, Rick Ash, Joe Earle and Joel Moss	Nominated

2008 Broadway revival

Year	Award Ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
2008	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Revival of a Musical		Won
		Outstanding Actor in a Musical	Paulo Szot	Won
		Outstanding Actress in a Musical	Kelli O'Hara	Nominated
		Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical	Danny Burstein	Nominated
		Outstanding Director	Bartlett Sher	Won
		Outstanding Set Design	Michael Yeargan	Won
		Outstanding Sound Design	Scott Lehrer	Won
		Outstanding Lighting Design	Donald Holder	Nominated
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Revival of a Musical		Won
		Outstanding Actor in a Musical	Paulo Szot	Won
		Outstanding Actress in a Musical	Kelli O'Hara	Nominated
		Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical	Danny Burstein	Won
		Outstanding Director of a Musical	Bartlett Sher	Won
		Outstanding Choreographer	Christopher Gattelli	Nominated
		Outstanding Set Design	Michael Yeargan	Nominated
		Outstanding Costume Design	Catherine Zuber	Won
	Tony Award	Best Revival of a Musical		Won
		Best Direction of a Musical	Bartlett Sher	Won
		Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Paulo Szot	Won
		Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical	Kelli O'Hara	Nominated
		Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Danny Burstein	Nominated
		Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical	Loretta Ables Sayre	Nominated
		Best Choreography	Christopher Gattelli	Nominated
		Best Scenic Design	Michael Yeargan	Won
		Best Costume Design	Catherine Zuber	Won
		Best Lighting Design	Donald Holder	Won
		Best Sound Design	Scott Lehrer	Won

2011 London revival

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2012	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Musical Revival		Nominated
		Best Actor in a Musical	Paulo Szot	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Catherine Zuber	Nominated

Notes

↑ A 2006 review stated: "Many are the knowledgeable and discriminating people for whom Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, brilliantly co-written and staged by Joshua Logan, was the greatest musical of all."
↑ South Pacific, Theatrehistory.com, accessed November 14, 2012. The veteran producer Arthur Hammerstein called it the greatest musical show Broadway had ever seen, perfect in every respect. The critic Richard Watts, Jr., described it as "a thrilling and exultant musical play, an utterly captivating work of theatrical art."
↑ Pulitzer Prize 1950, accessed June 24, 2011
1 2 South Pacific 1950 Tony winners, Tony Awards official website, accessed April 4, 2012
↑ Announcement of Tony Award nominations, 2008. Tonyawards.com
↑ "Olivier Winners 2002", Olivier Awards official website, accessed April 7, 2012

References

Nolan, Frederick. The Sound of Their Music: The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, New York, 2002. ISBN 1-55783-473-3

External links

South Pacific at the Internet Broadway Database
South Pacific at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization

James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific (1947)

Characters	Bloody Mary

Adaptations	South Pacific (1949 musical) Awards and nominations South Pacific (1958 film) South Pacific (2001 film)

Songs	"Some Enchanted Evening" "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" "Bali Ha'i" "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" "Younger Than Springtime" "Happy Talk" "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"

Albums	South Pacific (1958 soundtrack)

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical (2001–2025)

42nd Street (2001) Into the Woods (2002) Nine (2003) Assassins (2004) La Cage aux Folles (2005) Sweeney Todd (2006) Company (2007) South Pacific (2008) Hair (2009) La Cage aux Folles (2010) Anything Goes (2011) Follies (2012) Pippin (2013) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014) The King and I (2015) She Loves Me (2016)

Complete list (1988–2000) (2001–2025)

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

1918–1950	Why Marry? (1918) Beyond the Horizon (1920) Miss Lulu Bett (1921) Anna Christie (1922) Icebound (1923) Hell-Bent Fer Heaven (1924) They Knew What They Wanted (1925) Craig's Wife (1926) In Abraham's Bosom (1927) Strange Interlude (1928) Street Scene (1929) The Green Pastures (1930) Alison's House (1931) Of Thee I Sing (1932) Both Your Houses (1933) Men in White (1934) The Old Maid (1935) Idiot's Delight (1936) You Can't Take It with You (1937) Our Town (1938) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939) The Time of Your Life (1940) There Shall Be No Night (1941) The Skin of Our Teeth (1943) Harvey (1945) State of the Union (1946) A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) Death of a Salesman (1949) South Pacific (1950)

1951–1975	The Shrike (1952) Picnic (1953) The Teahouse of the August Moon (1954) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) The Diary of Anne Frank (1956) Long Day's Journey into Night (1957) Look Homeward, Angel (1958) J.B. (1959) Fiorello! (1960) All the Way Home (1961) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962) The Subject Was Roses (1965) A Delicate Balance (1967) The Great White Hope (1969) No Place to be Somebody (1970) The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971) That Championship Season (1973) Seascape (1975)

1976–2000	A Chorus Line (1976) The Shadow Box (1977) The Gin Game (1978) Buried Child (1979) Talley's Folly (1980) Crimes of the Heart (1981) A Soldier's Play (1982) 'night, Mother (1983) Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) Sunday in the Park with George (1985) Fences (1987) Driving Miss Daisy (1988) The Heidi Chronicles (1989) The Piano Lesson (1990) Lost in Yonkers (1991) The Kentucky Cycle (1992) Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) Three Tall Women (1994) The Young Man from Atlanta (1995) Rent (1996) How I Learned to Drive (1998) Wit (1999) Dinner with Friends (2000)

2001–present	Proof (2001) Topdog/Underdog (2002) Anna in the Tropics (2003) I Am My Own Wife (2004) Doubt: A Parable (2005) Rabbit Hole (2007) August: Osage County (2008) Ruined (2009) Next to Normal (2010) Clybourne Park (2011) Water by the Spoonful (2012) Disgraced (2013) The Flick (2014) Between Riverside and Crazy (2015) Hamilton (2016)

Tony Award for Best Musical (1949–1975)

Kiss Me, Kate (1949) South Pacific (1950) Guys and Dolls (1951) The King and I (1952) Wonderful Town (1953) Kismet (1954) The Pajama Game (1955) Damn Yankees (1956) My Fair Lady (1957) The Music Man (1958) Redhead (1959) The Sound of Music / Fiorello! (1960) Bye Bye Birdie (1961) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1963) Hello, Dolly! (1964) Fiddler on the Roof (1965) Man of La Mancha (1966) Cabaret (1967) Hallelujah, Baby! (1968) 1776 (1969) Applause (1970) Company (1971) Two Gentlemen of Verona (1972) A Little Night Music (1973) Raisin (1974) The Wiz (1975)

Complete list (1949–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

Tony Award for Best Original Score (1947–1975)

Street Scene by Kurt Weill (1947) Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter (1949) South Pacific by Richard Rodgers (1950) Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin (1951) No Strings by Richard Rodgers (1962) Oliver! by Lionel Bart (1963) Hello, Dolly! by Jerry Herman (1964) Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (1965) Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion (1966) Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1967) Hallelujah, Baby! by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1968) Company by Stephen Sondheim (1971) Follies by Stephen Sondheim (1972) A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim (1973) Gigi by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (1974) The Wiz by Charlie Smalls (1975)

Complete list (1947–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (1950–1975)

South Pacific by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (1950) Hello, Dolly! by Michael Stewart (1964) Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein (1965) Company by George Furth (1971) Two Gentlemen of Verona by John Guare and Mel Shapiro (1972) A Little Night Music by Hugh Wheeler (1973) Candide by Hugh Wheeler (1974) Shenandoah by James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell and Philip Rose (1975)

Complete list (1950–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical

Carousel (1994)
Show Boat (1995)
The King and I (1996)
Chicago (1997)
Cabaret (1998)
Annie Get Your Gun (1999)
Kiss Me, Kate (2000)
42nd Street (2001)
Into the Woods (2002)
Nine (2003)
Assassins (2004)
La Cage aux Folles (2005)
The Pajama Game (2006)
Company (2007)
South Pacific (2008)
Hair (2009)
La Cage aux Folles (2010)
Anything Goes (2011)
Porgy and Bess (2012)
Pippin (2013)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014)
The King and I (2015)
The Color Purple (2016)

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