Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre’s production of “South Pacific” will prove that when it comes to love and war, all things are not always fair.

The award-winning classic by Rodgers & Hammerstein stars Deb Wims in the role of Nellie Forbush, a spunky nurse from Arkansas who has been stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II. It is there where she meets a dashing Frenchman, Emile de Becque (Robert Wilde). 

Forbush is seduced by his charms as he sings the famous romantic ballad “Some Enchanted Evening.” But when she learns more about him and starts to doubt their future together, she and the other nurses declare that “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair.” Meanwhile, the restless sailors long for some affection of their own with the rousing “There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame.” 

Revolutionary for its time when first staged in 1949, the show addressed issues that are still making headlines.
Tickets range from $40 to $65 and include a buffet dinner. Discounts are available for children ages 3-15 and groups of 20 or more. A show schedule is posted at www.beefandboards.com, and tickets are available by calling 872-9664.

Photographer and geologist Rob Price will be the featured artist at the Art Bank in September.

Price, whose show – “Some Landscapes of North America” – opens Friday, Sept. 4, at 811 Massachusetts Ave., is known to wait for hours until his environment is suitable for a picture. If an image is too large for his camera to fully capture, he will painstakingly stitch several images together until he can offer his patrons the full vista that he experienced on location.

“The more I photographed the landscapes, the more I appreciated the forms and colors wrought by time, water and wind, so much so that at times I feel I need to smack my head to make sure that what I’m seeing is real,” said Price. 

“Every natural scene that is presented to your eyes is a convolution of the effects of light, water and the passage of time,” he said. 

“And while we can see water almost everywhere, if we just wait a while, most of us do not think about the passage of time implicit in the creation and metamorphosis of the world in front of our eyes.”