Tonkin
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Tonkin, also spelled Tongkin, Tonquin or Tongking, is an exonym referring to the area surrounding the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this term referred to the
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South Pacific (musical)
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South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, r
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…the US and North Vietnamese were involved in a battle off the coast, known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The American mid-20th-century musical drama South Pacific includes a duet by the lead couple. It describes their nostalgia for their respective lives in the United States; their exposure to use of the Tonkinese…
Original Broadway windowcard (1949)
Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein
Ezio Pinza
Mary Martin