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) allowed him to quit his job as an editor at Macmillan and to become a full-time writer. Over the next five decades, his lengthy, detailed novels centering on different places would dominate the bestseller lists. The role of Nellie Forbush was the first time with Hammerstein that Rodgers made the leading female role a belter, rather than a lyric soprano like Laurey in "Oklahoma!" and Julie in "Carousel". According to Mordden, "Nellie was something new in R&H, carrying a goodly share of the score on a 'Broadway' voice". Nellie does not sing together with Emile, because Rodgers promised Martin that