The Theater: Champion

South Pacific, celebrating its first anniversary by taking an eight-day Lenten vacation, looked this week more than ever like the biggest hit in Broadway history. Except for a few seats in August, the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II-Joshua Logan musical was sold out through September, and the ticket demand was still big. The advance sale: $800,000.

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