"Two Boys" has its U.S. premiere Oct. 21 in a revised version of the Bartlett Sher staging that opened at the ENO in June 2011.

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Bartlett Sher, who oversaw the show, thanked Rodgers, and Hammerstein, along with original director Joshua Logan and James Michener, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific, the collection of short stories which inspired the production.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific picked up four Outer Critics Circle awards - outstanding revival of a musical, outstanding director of a musical for Bartlett Sher, outstanding actor in a musical for Paulo Szot and outstanding featured actor in a musical for Danny Burstein.

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