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Pacific Overtures - Wikipedia
Pacific Overtures is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by John Weidman, with "additional material by" Hugh Wheeler. Set in nineteenth-century Japan, it tells the story of the country's westernization starting in 1853, when American ships forcibly opened it to the rest of the world. The story is told from the point of view of the Jap… See more
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Conceived as a Japanese playwright's version of an American musical about American influences on Japan, Pacific Overtures opens in July 1853. Since the foreigners … See more
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Pacific Overtures - Music Theatre International
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman (authors of Assassins) mix elements of Kabuki theatre with the conventions of the Broadway musical in Pacific Overtures, a highly original, inventive, powerful, educational and surprisingly …
Pacific Overtures - Wikiwand
Set in nineteenth-century Japan, it tells the story of the country's westernization starting in 1853, when American ships forcibly opened it to the rest of the world. The story is told from the point …
Pacific Overtures - Everything Sondheim
Sondheim’s ninth musical, Pacific Overtures (1976), is considered by many to be his most unusual. It was his fourth collaboration with Hal Prince as director and producer.
Pacific Overtures | Story | Broadway.com
Pacific Overtures tells the history of Japan, from Commodore Perry's expedition to "Nippon" in 1853 to the country's rise as a powerful economic force.Tony Award winner B.D. Wong stars in …
Pacific Overtures musical review, Menier Chocolate …
Dec 14, 2023 · With "intricate" music, witty lyrics and an "exquisite" traverse setting, "Pacific Overtures" is a "wonderful, bijou surprise". The musical 's storyline leaves it open to charges of...
Pacific Overtures (Musical) Plot & Characters
Taking place in 19th century Japan, the story concerns the culture clash sparked by America's 1853 mission to open up Japan to the West. Up to this point, Japan had been an island empire living in peace for centuries, undisturbed by foreign …
Pacific Overtures: Musical Info & Synopsis - Theatre Trip
Pacific Overtures follows the impact of American Commodore Matthew Perry’s arrival to Japan in 1853, prompting the country to reevaluate its traditions and policies.
Pacific Overtures - Sondheim Database
Oct 24, 2024 · "A chronicle of Japanese history, beginning with the 1853 incursion of American warships, under the command of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, into Japanese waters …
Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures”—where the West …
In “Pacific Overtures” (1976), Stephen Sondheim, with writers John Weidman and Hugh Wheeler, and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick, musicalized a major serious moment in world hist
Pacific Overtures, Menier Chocolate Factory review: …
Dec 5, 2023 · Nimble, imaginative Anglo-Japanese take on Sondheim’s screechingly high concept musical about the Westernisation of Japan. There’s a lot that’s unlikely about ‘Pacific Overtures’. First, it’s a...
Review: ‘Pacific Overtures’ Revival Is Bare Yet Flowering
May 4, 2017 · Stephen Sondheim says that a major inspiration for “Pacific Overtures,” the 1976 musical now being revived at Classic Stage Company, was a three-panel Japanese screen he …
Remembering Pacific Overtures — Mark Robinson Writes
Aug 28, 2019 · Pacific Overtures opened at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre on January 11, 1976 where it ran for 193 performances. Audiences and critics were starkly divided over the …
Pacific Overtures - New York Theatre Guide
Sep 22, 2017 · Pacific Overtures, originally mounted on Broadway in 1976 by Harold Prince as a full-blown Kabuki spectacle, opened then to mixed critical reception in the press and closed …
Cast for Menier’s Pacific Overtures - Musical Theatre Review
Oct 25, 2023 · Pacific Overtures completes the Menier’s trilogy of Weidman/Sondheim musicals following the successful productions of Assassins and Road Show. Set in 19th century Japan, …
John Weidman - Wikipedia
Weidman collaborated on three stage musicals with Stephen Sondheim, all of which are politically themed to some degree. The first was Pacific Overtures, about the Westernization of Japan in …
太平洋序曲 - Wikipedia
太平洋序曲』（たいへいようじょきょく、Pacific Overtures）は、スティーヴン・ソンドハイム音楽、ジョン・ワイドマン脚本のミュージカル。1853年の日本とその後の西洋化の難しさを …
Alvin Ing - Wikipedia
Ing made his Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures in 1976. Ing returned to Broadway in 2004 for a revival of the same show, playing one of his original parts, the …
A gorgeously detailed ‘Pacific Overtures’ opens at Signature Theatre
Mar 16, 2023 · Set in mid-19th-century Japan, Pacific Overtures depicts, from the point of view of the Japanese, the rapid social and political change following an expedition by a U.S. naval …
South Pacific (musical) - Wikipedia
South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and …
