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The production, with a London-based cast including Takurō Ōno as Kayama and Masashi Fujimoto, played at the Menier Chocolate Factory from November 25, 2023 to February 24, 2024. Plot summary Act I. Conceived as a Japanese playwright's version of an American musical about American influences on Japan, Pacific Overtures opens in July 1853 ...
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Apr 30, 2024 · Pacific Overtures. The Notion. "A chronicle of Japanese history, beginning with the 1853 incursion of American warships, under the command of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, into Japanese waters in order to open up trade with a nation that had been closed to foreigners for centuries. In particular, it concerns the relationship during the ...
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. Prince introduced Sondheim to young playwright John Weidman, who had advanced the idea of a dramatic play about 19th-century Japan, chronicling the 1853 arrival of ...
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Sep 7, 2004 · Listen to Pacific Overtures (Original London Cast) [Highlights] by Stephen Sondheim on Apple Music. Stream songs including "Prologue", "The Advantage of Floating In the Middle of the Sea" and more. Album · 2004 · 12 Songs
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 humorous theatrical experience.
Stephen Sondheim. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1988 CD release of "Pacific Overtures (Original London Cast) [Complete Recording]" on Discogs.
A musical with book by John Weidman, Pacific Overtures traces the history of Japan from the first contact with America (via Commodore Matthew Perry) through the modern age. The "development" of the country is represented by two characters, Kayama Yasaemon, a traditional samurai, and his friend Manjiro, a fisherman who had been shipwrecked in ...
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