Jessica Martin TV Weekly". Martin and Gary Wilmot went on to star in the West End hit show "Me and My Girl". They performed for two years at the Adelphi Theatre and did a national tour. Martin went on to play leading musical roles including Mabel in the 1996 production of "Mack and Mabel" at the Piccadilly Theatre, Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific", Mrs Lovett in "Sweeney Todd" and Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard". She also guest-starred in the 1988 "Doctor Who" serial "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor, in which she played a punk werewolf.
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