LHS will present the Roger’s and Hammerstein’s musical “South Pacific” in the Van Blair Auditorium Feb. 27-28.

On these two days, matinee performances are scheduled for elementary students only at 1 p.m. Two evening performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. each night. Tickets will be $5 for adults and $3 for children and may be purchased in the LHS Activities Office

The music is by Richard Rogers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. “South Pacific” ranks among the most celebrated of Rogers and Hammerstein’s acclaimed musical masterpieces.

LHS drama director Reesa Florom, choir director Sandy Steele and band director Josh Shellard are in charge of the production.

“South Pacific” is set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war.

Anne Mason will play Nellie Forbush, a spunky nurse from Arkansas. She falls in love with mature French planter, Emile de Becque, played by Dylan Przygocki.

Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile’s proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable, played by Bridger Bailey, denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl, played by Anna Kyritsis.

Cast members follow.

LHS cast members and the role they will play, according to the revised list provided on Jan. 27, include Mary Kozlowski (Ngana), Grant Asay (Jerome), Guillermo Guerrero (Henry, Emile’s servant), Anne Mason (Ensign Nellie Forbush), Dylan Przygocki (Emile DeBecque), Claire Mason (Bloody Mary), Adam Lindstrom (Stewpot),

Brady Carroll (Luther Billis), Matt Brown (Professor), Bridger Bailey (Lt. Cable), Matt Parish (Capt. Bracket), Ben Fairfield (Cmdr. William Harbison), Bryce Asay (Yeomen Herbert Quale), Sam Burns (Seabee Richard West), Robert Holder (Radio operator Bob McCaffery), Jason Svare (Marine Cpl. Hamilton Steeves), Jacob Means (Seaman James Hayes),

Chase Bivens (Sgt. Thomas Hassinger), Amy Deibert (Ensign Dinah Murphy), Elly Kozlowski (Ensign Janet MacGregor), Hanna Eslinger (Ensign Sue Yaeger), Anna Hartley (Ensign Pamela Whitmore), Monique Koller (Ensign Bessie Noonan), Anna Kyritsis (Liat), and Ben Roberts (Lt. Adams).

Kayleigh Schermerhorn and Katt Deckert will play native islanders while Kaycee Anderson, Sonya Francis and Kelsey Coyle will assume the role of the French daughters.