In a year chock full of star-studded 80th birthday tributes to legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the March 15–16 gala evenings with the New York Philharmonic at New York’s Lincoln Center stood tall.

View the production credits for "'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall."

Brian Stokes Mitchell, the dashing baritone and acclaimed actor in several Broadway productions, plays the French planter Emile de Becque in "South Pacific."

The year 1949 found Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein at a crossroads in their collaboration.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning blockbuster was a landmark of post-World War II Broadway.