Kelli O'Hara Park with George" and Eliza Doolittle in the New York Philharmonic's semi-staged production of "My Fair Lady" at Avery Fisher Hall. She was the voice of producer Beth Totenbag on PBS's 2008 animated series "Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns". From 2008 to 2010, O'Hara starred as Nellie Forbush in the Broadway revival of "South Pacific" at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, for which she was nominated for her third Tony Award. She took maternity leave in March 2009 and returned to the musical in October 2009. O'Hara played the role of Ella Peterson in the 2010 New York
South Pacific (musical) plan, to affiance Liat to a wealthy French planter on the islands. Cable struggles, during the story, with his own racism: he is able to overcome it sufficiently to love Liat, but not enough to take her home. Another source of the musical is the eighth story, "Our Heroine", which is thematically paired with the 12th, "A Boar's Tooth", as both involve American encounters with local cultures. "Our Heroine" tells of the romance between Navy nurse Nellie Forbush, from rural Arkansas, and a wealthy, sophisticated planter, Frenchman Emile De Becque. After falling in love with Emile, Nellie (who is introduced