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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 "cultural ...
- The Week UK
Dec 5, 2023 · Pacific Overtures at Menier Chocolate Factory. Photograph: Manuel Harlan The staging brings great visual wit and wonder, from Ashley Nottingham’s attractive choreography to Paul Farnsworth’s ...
- Arifa Akbar
Jan 20, 2024 · Pacific Overtures, the Kabuki-ized depiction of the United States invasion of Japan in 1853 was crafted by bookwriter John Weidman, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director Hal Prince. Now it’s back again—it’s not back all that often, actually—in an utterly charming and thought-provoking production at London’s Menier Chocolate ...
Nov 30, 2023 · The new version of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical is hitting UK shores for the first time. The Menier Chocolate Factory has given a look at their co-production with the Umeda Arts Theater of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures. Directed by Matthew White, Sondheim’s musical charts the arrival of the West in ...
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Mar 17, 2023 · Director Ethan Heard and company have pulled off something close to miraculous. Running Time: Two Hours and Twenty minutes including one fifteen minute intermission. Pacific Overtures runs through ...
Nov 9, 2023 · The Menier Chocolate Factory has given a look inside the rehearsal room for their forthcoming co-production with the Umeda Arts Theater of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures. Directed by Matthew White, Sondheim’s musical charts the arrival of the West in Japan in 1853. It features well-known tunes like “Someone in a ...
Pacific Overtures review — a great Sondheim musical about Japan ... be surprised to learn that his account of how Japan was forced to open its doors to the West in the 19th century has become a ...
