£32.50
Date 15/12/1953
Manchester Opera House – South Pacific 1953 – James Bond
An original programme for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific at the Opera House, Manchester, dated 15 December 1953.
The cast includes Helen Landis, Roland Green, Jane Hill, Abe Ellis, Paul Dobson and a young Sean Connery, years before he found worldwide fame as James Bond.
The musical, based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stories, opened on Broadway in 1949.
Programmes listing Connery in his early stage days are prized pieces of theatre memorabilia, appealing to both musical theatre and Bond collectors.
| Production | South Pacific |
|---|---|
| Venue | Opera House – Manchester |
| Cast | Sean Connery (James Bond) – Helen Landis, Roland Green – Jane Hill, Abe Ellis – Paul Dobson |
Condition: V Good, Vlcr, slrs
Did you know?
- Sean Connery joined the touring company of South Pacific in the early 1950s, starting in the chorus as one of the sailors.
- South Pacific won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950, one of very few musicals ever to do so.
- The Manchester Opera House opened in 1912 under the name the New Theatre.
SKU: T02064
