i agree with the negative comments about this version of south pacific. however, most of all, i was dissapointed with the absence of "happy talk." how could they take a song that was so essential to the relationship of cable and liat and omit it from the film? the song contains some of the most profound lyrics ever written by oscal hammerstein ii. "you've got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?"
shareThere is no way I would buy this DVD without Happy Talk.
shareAt the time, it was rumored to be cut for politically correct reasons, but Wikipedia says this is not why (they don't say why, though). Perhaps for length.
It's not uncommon; they usually cut or add songs (or both) from one version to the other in musicals. This one added a lot of dialogue to flesh out the characters as well as cutting Happy Talk and half of Bali Hai.
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The lyrics of the song are so innocent, and would probably been a poor backdrop to what was obviously going on between Lt. Cable and Liat in this version of the musical. There was a lot more there than just talk!
shareYes, "Happy Talk" a great song was cut and somebody posted that "This Nearly Was Mine" was also cut. Maybe ABC should have cut the entire show as it was dull and unbelievable with poor casting; the worst version I have ever seen.
shareI watched the show when it was first broadcast on TV (in North America). Happy Talk was in it. I'm not mistaken because I found the song and its singer memorably ~weird~.
shareI saw South Pacific onstage for the third time, three days ago and I also own copies of both versions of the film. It is unforgivable to exclude, what is arguably, the best song in the show, Happy Talk. I understood it was because it was made for TV and had to have a specific running time. Watching the show again, the time elimination could easily have been made in the section without song towards the end.
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