SOME enchanted June evenings are in store for lovers of Broadway musicals, starting with a revival of that story of love in a world at war, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific at the Academy for Performing Arts' Lyric Theatre from June 9 to 26.
Here's some advance notice too, to get you to the Cultural Centre's Grand Theatre on time for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady from June 22-25. Contact URBTIX for tickets on 734-9009.
A local flavour is promised in the Hong Kong Singers' very model production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance at the Arts Centre's Shouson Theatre from June 7 to 11. Tenor Neil Drave plays Frederic, who has mistakenly been apprenticed to the pirates, and soprano Linda Peach, fresh from the Arts Festival's Magic Flute, plays Mabel, the general's daughter who takes an interest in him. Tickets through Urbtix.
ALL things - and animals - being equal, George Orwell's bitingly funny satire against totalitarian regimes, Animal Farm, will be brought to the stage of the Arts Centre's Shouson Theatre by the International Theatre Company of London from tonight until Saturday, with student matinees at 10am. Peter Hall adapted the novel, with music by Richard Peaslee and lyrics by Adrian Mitchell. Tickets through Urbtix.
Howard Brenton's Bloody Poetry, a drama about the mad, bad and dangerous-to-know peer, Lord Byron, who seduced Shelley, his mistress and her half-sister (that's the Romantics for you) is performed by the Hong Kong Players at the Fringe's Nestle Dairy Farm Theatre from tomorrow until Saturday. Call the Fringe box office on 521-7251.
Weaker hearts may no doubt prefer Samuel Taylor's comedy A Touch of Spring at the Hilton from tomorrow night until June 11, the latest from Derek Nimmo's company. Described as somewhat amoral, this comedy stars Mary Claiborne, Jon Iles and Virginia Gilchrist in a story of love and death in Italy. Dinner is included at $535, call the Hilton box office on 523-3111, ext 2009.