South Pacific, review: succumb to the siren call from this island paradise of a musical

• To the directors tying themselves in knots over how to make classic work palatable for a modern audience: take a cue from Daniel Evans. Yes, the notorious racial politics in South Pacific gave Evans pause when he mounted his Chichester production last summer, but that became an opportunity for creative problem-solving. As Sadler’s Wells audiences can now appreciate, with a few judicious tweaks he draws out both the radical intent of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 musical and its lush, passionate