Show Plot South Pacific

Authors: music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan

Time Period:  World War II, specifically around 1943 during the American military campaign against Japanese forces

Setting: A remote island in the South Pacific Ocean

Summary:

South Pacific follows American nurse Nellie Forbush and French planter Emile de Becque falling in love on a South Pacific island during World War II while facing racial prejudice.