Was the recent Lincoln Center Theatre production of South Pacific the first Broadway revival of the show?
not exactly. Between 1955 and 1965, South Pacific was produced four times at City Center, where several full-scale revivals of plays and musicals appeared each season during the 1950s and 1960s. Then the Music Theater of Lincoln Center, which produced elaborate revivals of classic musicals every summer between 1964 and 1969 at the New York State Theater, presented a completely new production in 1967. There is some evidence that the City Center and Music Theater of Lincoln Center productions were generally considered Broadway productions at the time. The Best Plays annuals listed them as Broadway productions, taking their information on such matters from Variety. In addition, the Variety reviews of both organizations’ productions appeared in the periodical’s “Shows on B’way” section. This suggests that the City Center and Music Theater of Lincoln Center shows were probably produced under Broadway contracts. All of this would seem to confirm that the shows were Broadway productions, but
