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Arkansas Heritage Month –“Little Rock” Songs
The Capital City has popped up in a variety of songs in different genres over the years. Today we look at five notable instances. Collin Raye’s 1994 song “Little Rock” peaked at Number 2 on the...
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Little Rock Look Back: SOUTH PACIFIC opens on Broadway 68 years ago today
Sixty-eight years ago today, a fictional Little Rock heroine took the stage of a Broadway megahit when South Pacific opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 7, 1949. It settled in for a run of 1925...
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Little Rock Look Back: SOUTH PACIFIC wins Pulitzer Prize
On May 5, 1950, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific captured the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. This would receive special attention in the Arkansas Gazette. The reason this carried such weight...
View ArticlePulitzers play Little Rock – SOUTH PACIFIC at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse in 1981
In the summer of 1981, the touring production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was causing controversy by bleeping out “whore” in its radio ads in the Little Rock market. At the same time, a...
View ArticleSixty nine years of enchanted evenings with SOUTH PACIFIC
Sixty-nine years ago today, a fictional Little Rock heroine took the stage of a Broadway megahit when South Pacific opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 7, 1949. It settled in for a run of 1925...
View ArticleLittle Rock Look Back: Pulitzer Prize to SOUTH PACIFIC
On May 5, 1950, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific captured the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. This would receive special attention in the Arkansas Gazette. The reason this carried such weight...
View ArticleLittle Rock Look Back: OKLAHOMA! comes to Little Rock for the first time
On February 9, 1948, as the original Broadway run was about to mark five years on Broadway, the national tour of Oklahoma! made its way to Little Rock for eight performances. The week-long stay it had...
View ArticleRock the Oscars 2019: SOUTH PACIFIC
Written for the stage by Oscar winners Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, along with Oscar nominee Joshua Logan, in 1958 South Pacific was the fourth Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical to...
View Article70 Years of SOUTH PACIFIC
Seventy years ago today, a fictional Little Rock heroine took the stage of a Broadway megahit when South Pacific opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 7, 1949. It settled in for a run of 1925...
View ArticleAnd the Pulitzer goes to SOUTH PACIFIC
On May 5, 1950, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific captured the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. This would receive special attention in the Arkansas Gazette. The reason this carried such weight...
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