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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts) Sun Aug 13, 2017, 12:35 PM Aug 2017

Just as true today as it was 60 years ago.

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Just as true today as it was 60 years ago. (Original Post) Stonepounder Aug 2017 OP

Yes! dlk Aug 2017 #1

The financial backers of the show tried to force Rodgers and Hammersteing to cut that song. Ken Burch Aug 2017 #2

Was the first show containing their 'social commentary,' wasn't it? elleng Aug 2017 #3

Never knew that bit of history about the song/show . . . markpkessinger Aug 2017 #5

Carefully taught, reinforced, mesmerized and SUBLIMATED... by FAUX Noize. lambchopp59 Aug 2017 #4

dlk

(11,544 posts)

1. Yes!

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Sun Aug 13, 2017, 01:33 PM

Aug 2017

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

2. The financial backers of the show tried to force Rodgers and Hammersteing to cut that song.

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Sun Aug 13, 2017, 01:52 PM

Aug 2017

They stood their ground, along with James Michener, who wrote the book the musical was based on.

Had "Carefully Taught" been removed, "South Pacific" would have been a meaningless fluff piece about Seabees in coconut bras. There'd have been no point in ever staging it.

elleng

(130,861 posts)

3. Was the first show containing their 'social commentary,' wasn't it?

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 13, 2017, 02:01 PM

Aug 2017

markpkessinger

(8,392 posts)

5. Never knew that bit of history about the song/show . . .

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 13, 2017, 09:05 PM

Aug 2017

. . . thanks for sharing it!

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)

4. Carefully taught, reinforced, mesmerized and SUBLIMATED... by FAUX Noize.

Reply to Stonepounder (Original post)

Sun Aug 13, 2017, 03:29 PM

Aug 2017

Megyn Kelly: "Santa just is White" can shove that little idiotic jibe where the sun does not shine.
I thought we'd gotten mostly past this racist phobia shit 50 years ago now.
I hope there is a specially torturous place in hell for the likes of sly, profiteering hatemongers such as Rupert Murdoch.

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