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
Nellie the Elephant minute. Singing the chorus of the song twice, with a compression on each beat, results in exactly 30 compressions, which is the international standard for CPR. The use of "Nellie" resulted in correct timing for 42 out of 130 cases, as compared with 15 for no music and just 12 for "That's the Way (I Like It)". However the depth of compression was found to be inadequate in most of those cases, and the use of "Nellie" was found to increase this inadequacy slightly, as compared with the use of no music (56% too shallow with "Nellie" and 47% without).