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ALOHA: ‘Suffer’ seque ‘My Sweet Tomorrow’

ACT I: end of “Suffer” seque My Sweet Tomorrow’ solo by Derek Metzger 1983 Derek Williams: Arranger, Orchestrator, Conductor and Musical Director Sir Robert Helpmann: Production Supervisor Robert Young: Director ALOHA – A Musical of the Islands by Eaton Magoon Jr and Sir Robert Helpmann World première performance, Founders’ Theatre, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1983. Copied from original amateur VHS. In this scene, an enterprising young missionary, the Reverend Jonathan Beacon sets off from Boston to begin his work as a missionary, spurred on by the admonition of the Reverend Hiram Burnham to convert the “Heathens” of Hawaii.