Pacific Overtures"Priceless and peerless...a thrilling work of theatricality." --Wayman Wong, San Francisco Examiner For over three decades, Stephen Sondheim has been the foremost composer and lyricist writing regularly for Broadway. His substantial body of work now stands as one of the most sustained achievements of the American stage. Pacific Overtures, originally produced in 1976, combines an unsurpassed mastery of the American musical with such arts as Kabuki theatre, haiku, dance, and masks to recount Commander Matthew Perry's 1835 opening of Japan and its consequences right up to the present. This new edition of Pacific Overtures incorporates substantial revisions made by the authors for the successful 1984 revival. |
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Ahhhhhhh AMERICAN ADMIRAL barbarians Bearers boat bowler hat BRITISH ADMIRAL chrysanthemum tea city of Uraga Commodore Payry court dance detente Downstage DUTCH ADMIRAL Emperor Ernest Harada exits float foreign Four black dragons Freda Foh Shen Gedde Watanabe Goodbye hanamichi Harold Prince hear hello Japan Japanese Kanagawa Kayama and Manjiro Kayama Yesaemon letter look Lord Abe MADAM Matsusaka MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY MERCHANT moon Nobles Pacific Overtures Pause Physician port Prefect of Police pretty garden Pretty lady PRIEST puppet/Emperor robes RUSSIAN ADMIRAL sacred decree SAILOR Sings SCENE screens SECOND COUNCILOR SECOND OBSERVER SECOND OFFICER SECOND SAILOR SECOND SAMURAI shamisen ships glow Shogun gestures Shouting Someone speak Spitting fire stage Stagehands enter Sumo Wrestlers sword Swordsmen Tamate Tell there's THIEF THIRD COUNCILOR Third Girl THIRD SAILOR Timm Fujii touch the coat Treaty House tree turn Upstage Wait WARRIOR Westerners WIFE wind Yo-ho Yuki Shimoda