Erin Mackey Nellie Forbush in the 2014 Paper Mill Playhouse production of "South Pacific". She starred as Mary Catlett in the world premiere of the musical, "Amazing Grace" from October to November 2014 playing a role she would later reprise on Broadway. From November 2016 through April 2017, Mackey starred on Broadway in the a cappella musical "In Transit". She is playing Dot in the Guthrie Theater's 2017 production of "Sunday in the Park with George". After her freshman year of college, Mackey auditioned for the musical "Wicked" and was offered a role as a swing on the national touring production. After
South Pacific (musical) play together ("Dites-Moi"). Ensign Nellie Forbush, a naïve U.S. Navy nurse from Little Rock, Arkansas, has fallen in love with Emile de Becque, a middle-aged French plantation owner, though she has known him only briefly. Even though everyone else is worried about the outcome of the war, Nellie tells Emile that she is sure everything will turn out all right ("A Cockeyed Optimist"). Emile also loves Nellie, and each wonders if the other reciprocates those feelings ("Twin Soliloquies"). Emile expresses his love for Nellie, recalling how they met at the officers' club dance and instantly were attracted to each other