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
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".