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  1. Joe Lugoff

    Does the longer version of SOUTH PACIFIC still exist?

    Yes, the album was released in stereo -- I still have it. My father got it in 1959 when he got our first stereo. (All of my father's stereo records were from 1959 -- he lost interest in things quickly.)
  2. Joe Lugoff

    Does the longer version of SOUTH PACIFIC still exist?

    But lots of people minded that Barbra Streisand was 40 to 50 years too YOUNG to be playing the widowed Dolly. She's just about the right age for the role now.
  3. Joe Lugoff

    Does the longer version of SOUTH PACIFIC still exist?

    Why are you saying GENE KELLY for Emile? He'd have been the worst -- it's painful to hear that tiny, hoarse voice sing anything, much less "Some Enchanted Evening" or "This Nearly Was Mine." I don't think he'd have allowed himself to be dubbed, after forcing his singing on the world for so many...
  4. Joe Lugoff

    Does the longer version of SOUTH PACIFIC still exist?

    I think Joe Cable has to be ordinary, so Rock Hudson wouldn't have been right for the part -- Cable's supposed to be the "Average Joe" (literally) who ended up in the war and lost his life. John Kerr was well cast to that extent, but wooden is right. The best thing is that he was dubbed by the...
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