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  1. Given its specific casting and production demands, Pacific Overtures remains one of Stephen Sondheim's least-performed musicals. The show is occasionally staged by opera companies. The cast requires an abundance of male Asian actors who must play male and female parts. As written, women join the ensemble for only half of the last song; all ...

  2. The performance schedule for Pacific Overtures is as follows: 25th November 2023 to 25th February 2024 . Opening Night – Monday 4th December 2023 . Tuesday to Saturday: 7:30pm. Saturday & Sunday: 3pm . Additional matinee performances on: 22nd & 25th February at 3pm.

  3. Dec 5, 2023 · Originally published on Dec 5, 2023 02:06. Read our four-star review of *Pacific Overtures*, Stephen Sondheim's 1976 work about 19th-century Japan, now in performances at the Menier Chocolate Factory to 24 February. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

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  4. Dec 5, 2023 · Tue 5 Dec 2023 06.18 EST. Last modified on Tue 5 Dec 2023 06.20 EST. W hen Stephen Sondheims 1976 musical premiered on Broadway, it was staged in grand kabuki style. By contrast, this...

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  5. Pacific Overtures: Full cast announced. Pacific Overtures poster, Menier Chocolate Factory. Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Pacific Overtures – which recounts the West's attempt to force open Japan for international trade in the late 19th century – plays from 25 November 2023 at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

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  7. Dec 5, 2023 · Nimble, imaginative Anglo-Japanese take on Sondheim’s screechingly high concept musical about the Westernisation of Japan. There’s a lot that’s unlikely about ‘Pacific Overtures’. First ...

  8. Stephen Sondheim. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1988 CD release of "Pacific Overtures (Original London Cast) [Complete Recording]" on Discogs.