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.
Tales of the South Pacific "Our Heroine", about Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque. Characters from other stories, such as Bill Harbison, Bus Adams, and Luther Billis, play minor or supporting roles. Some of the characters from the stories were merged and simplified to serve the format of the musical. For example, the coastwatcher in the musical is an American Marine (Lt. Cable) assisted by an expatriate French plantation owner (Emile de Becque). In Michener's short story "The Cave" the coastwatcher is an English expatriate assisted by native islanders, and is a disembodied voice on a short-wave radio identifying himself only as "The Remittance Man".