Erin Mackey Nellie Forbush in the 2014 Paper Mill Playhouse production of "South Pacific". She starred as Mary Catlett in the world premiere of the musical, "Amazing Grace" from October to November 2014 playing a role she would later reprise on Broadway. From November 2016 through April 2017, Mackey starred on Broadway in the a cappella musical "In Transit". She is playing Dot in the Guthrie Theater's 2017 production of "Sunday in the Park with George". After her freshman year of college, Mackey auditioned for the musical "Wicked" and was offered a role as a swing on the national touring production. After
Tales of the South Pacific "Our Heroine", about Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque. Characters from other stories, such as Bill Harbison, Bus Adams, and Luther Billis, play minor or supporting roles. Some of the characters from the stories were merged and simplified to serve the format of the musical. For example, the coastwatcher in the musical is an American Marine (Lt. Cable) assisted by an expatriate French plantation owner (Emile de Becque). In Michener's short story "The Cave" the coastwatcher is an English expatriate assisted by native islanders, and is a disembodied voice on a short-wave radio identifying himself only as "The Remittance Man".