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) 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