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I now have three photographic negatives of 'The Loneliness of Evening' sequence which I will post asap.

Yes that is great to see, all that footage apparently still exists, and could be put back complete into the film., to make the song follow the soundtrack version.

The short dance section on the soundtrack of 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man' plays while they are splashing around on the uncut version of the song that was cut from the film surely, a guy on youtube has restored the footage will the black and white scenes from the film of the making of South Pacific...

that's the photographic negative That I now have.

I read it was Richard Rodgers who was ill during the filming so wasn't on location, he never was a fan of the film of 'South Pacific' and when he saw 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man' ordered them to cut it to the bone.

For me 'Wash That Man' is one of my favourite songs from the score.

It was in the book I have called the Tale of South Pacific Joe is seen in his Bomber Jacket covering his bare chest when he is met by Emile carrying flowers for Nellie before she sings 'Honey Bun', escaping from the hospital that scene must have been removed very early on.

Great that it is now on Blu Ray as well as DVD

Me too

I now have three photographic negatives of from the 'Loneliness of Evening' sequence sung by Emile which i am going to use for prints the first one shows Emile gazing into the pond and seeing Nellie's face and the other two show him at the Officers Club dance where he first meets Nellie, which...

Yes I have the cast recording

Great! I managed to get it on DVD when I lost my VHS recording.

Indeed she was one of several great women librettist/lyricists when it was only the composer who got the credit be they man or woman , Katherine Chisholm Cushing among them.

Concur absolutely it was written for David Brooks on stage in 1947. The cut numbers should ideally be reinserted back into the film, although some of them are as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray issue. that's what they should do with 'South Pacific' too.

a lot of Lerner's 'books' were originals for his musicals, which is the most difficult musical to write, ones that are not based on any existing literary source, although I understand 'Brigadoon' was not as original as he made out and was adapted from some German story about a German mythical...

Some of the cut songs are included as a bonus feature on the Blu-Ray issue of the film. I love the song 'Come To Me Bend To Me' too.

I love the original stage musical and have the original cast album with David Brooks and Marion Bell( one of the 8 Mrs Lerner's) as well as more recent cast albums of the score. You can see an actual 1947 performance of Marion Bell singing the part of Fiona in the documentary film from 1988...

People often say that, the songs of 'Paint Your Wagon' were loved and sung from it's stage premiere in 1951. Very underrated musical from Lerner & Loewe, the stage musical, that is, the plot is entirely different that the film and contains even more great songs than the film, like the earlier...

Have you got the original Broadway cast album of the 1951 stage production? and to you have/seen the documentary from 1988 'Lerner & Loewe Broadway's Last Romantics' great footage on there of the original star of 'Paint Your Wagon' Olga San Juan singing songs cut from the film. The stage musical...

couldn't agree more, Kino seems to be prepared to release far more than a lot of the studios combined Disney(20th Century Fox) Warner, Paramount, Universal [look at how Kino released 'Flower Drum Song on to Blu-Ray) not Universal; yes it will MGM.

Also I forgot how about a 4k release of 'Brigadoon' already on Blu -Ray if they are going to release 'Paint Your Wagon ' on to 4k again 'Brigadoon' better adaptation of 1947 stage musical than PYW.

The film of 'Paint Your Wagon' is Ok but nothing like as good as the original 1951 stage musical on which this film is based. nor is it as good as film of 'Camelot' 1967 which is also based on the fabulous 1960 stage musical of the same name which starred Richard Burton and Julie Andrews. I...

Brazzi I think came early on when Ezio Pinza died and they were looking for perhaps someone to co-star with Martin but that was quickly was dashed as Brazzi didn't look old enough to star opposite Martin , he was in fact older, they had tried to get someone more the age of Pinza, but failed...

write or emailcraft recordings would be my advice if Amazon wont replace they are released to craft as part of the Rodgers & Hammerstein organisation Concord theatricals I have always found them very good to deal with especially as you have purchased two sets.

yes another great picture from the cut sequence of 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man'

Your comments are very interesting. What I do know is that all hung on the death of the original stage Emile which is my absolute favourite Ezio Pinza. Had he not died the year the film was made, he would have been asked to do the film version opposite Mary Martin. when Pina died it became very...

I have extra photos of that scene which I will download, someone obviously took photographs of the full footage before it was cut for the first publicly released print

I've heard it was Richard Rodgers decision as he never liked the film of 'South Pacific' anyway, I think it works even in the heavy edited version that is seen and I love the song but the full version should be released

Yes I agree, in the case of the 1927 production Howard Marsh and Norma Terris apparently never recorded anything from their roles in Showboat, not a thing he did record some of his appearances in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, but its hard to realise that Norma Terris didn't record any of her...