Surflight Theatre’s second musical of its 2024 season is a for-sure classic. It’s Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” one of the most influential musicals of Broadway’s Golden Age – indeed, of all time.

It shouldn’t have been a surprise it was a hit of hits in 1949. It was, after all, based in large part on James Michener’s 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific.