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Dec 5, 2023 · If Pacific Overtures were written today, there would be a considerable amount of controversy about the fact that it’s created by two white New Yorkers with no lived experience of Japanese culture – somewhat navigated here by a cast of Asian descent (this hasn’t always been the case).
- Julia Rank
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.
Dec 14, 2023 · published 14 December 2023. "Pacific Overtures" hasn't often been revived since its first run on Broadway in 1976, said Clive Davis in The Times. That may be because, even by Stephen Sondheim's...
- The Week UK
Dec 7, 2023 · Pacific Overtures tells the story of the previously isolated 19th century Japan reluctantly opening its doors to trade with foreign nations. The play is written by two white westerners (with additional material by a third: Sweeney Todd book-writer Hugh Wheeler) from the imagined perspective of a Japanese playwright’s idea of what an American ...
Dec 15, 2023 · Stephen Sondheim’s early musical has been through many changes since it was first written in 1976.
- February 24, 2024
- Neil Norman
- December 15, 2023
Nov 29, 2023 · With a book by John Weidman and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the show tells the story of the arrival of the Western World in Japan from the perspective of the Japanese. This production of...
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May 4, 2017 · Viewed one way, “Pacific Overtures” is a chronicle, stuffed with real names and documentary evidence, of the arrival of American warships at Uraga in July 1853, and what came after.
