Marcia Mitzman Gaven 1985. Gaven starred in the New York City Opera's Broadway revival of "Brigadoon", in which she played Meg Brockie, at New York State Theater in 1986. The story is about a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years, and Meg is one of the villagers. According to Sy Syna of the magazine "The World & I", Gaven was "a huge crowd pleaser" in the role. She was also cast in the New York City Opera's spring 1987 revival of "South Pacific" as the female lead character Nellie Forbush, a U.S. Navy nurse who works on
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