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) 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