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Speaking of SOUTH PACIFIC, Mary Martin never used mikes during the B'way run. Ethel Merman never used mikes (never needed them with those pipes). I agree with Cinemiracle. Actors were trained to project their voices and not rely on body mikes. I dislike hearing voices coming out of huge speakers...

Just for the record, once upon a time B'way actors did NOT require mikes when performing. Later, when mikes were, alas, introduced, they were skillfully hidden so as not to shatter the illusion of the performance. The practice of having mikes protruding off actors' faces began when singers in...

My daughter has seen it twice on Broadway and once in London, and it was cheaper to see it in London. The second time she saw it on Broadway was the night of the bomb scare with the mob running scared in Times Square, so she calmly collected her belongings and left the theater, walked to the...