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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... Two Observers appear . Tamate dances as the Observers sing . The First sings about her , the Second sings her words and thoughts ) FIRST OBSERVER : The eye sees , the thought flies . The eye tells , the thought denies . SECOND OBSERVER ...
... SECOND OBSERVER : I shall expect you then at evening . ( Is there no other way ? ) FIRST OBSERVER : The bird sings , the wind sighs , The air stirs , the bird shies . A storm approaches . SECOND OBSERVER : ( There must be other ways ...
Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman. The wind counts the lost goodbyes . SECOND OBSERVER : There is no other way . There is no other way . ( Tamate takes a sheathed knife from the household shrine , kneels , pulls the knife halfway out , then ...