I think for Joe, he wants to be an actual hero.” They just felt like they were trying not to get shot. “A lot of the guys in the second world war, through the research that I’ve done, spoke about this feeling of hopelessness and how they didn’t really feel like they did anything. But there’s this great sense of trying to accomplish something in war. “He’s so determined to go on this incredibly dangerous mission for many different reasons. “Joe is such a conflicted character,” Bowden says. He’s engaged to a girl in the US, but throughout the course of the show he searches for meaning, finds love and has his world-view completely changed. He’s taking over the role from Daniel Koek, who is currently appearing as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables on the West End.Īt the beginning of the show, Joe is new to the island where all the action takes place and is very much an all-American soldier.
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He also created the role of Pat Matthews in the Cat Stevens musical Moonshadow.īut his role in South Pacific, Joe Cable, presents him with a whole new set of challenges and just as many rewards. No stranger to the classics, the 28-year-old actor understudied and performed both Tony and Riff in West Side Story in 2010, before going on to win the prestigious Rob Guest Endowment the next year. The thrill and the honour of actually getting to do them is incredible.” That’s what brought most of us to musical theatre.
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“That’s what brought me to musical theatre in the first place. Just one week into rehearsal, South Pacific is already a career highlight for Blake Bowden. Ben Neutze spoke to Blake Bowden at the end of his first week of rehearsals to play Lieutenant Joe Cable in the return season of Opera Australia and GFO’s South Pacific Blake Bowden – image supplied.