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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.
Pacific Overtures 1976 Original Broadway Cast. " 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 19th-century Japan, it tells the story of the country's westernization starting in 1853, when American ships forcibly opened it to the rest of ...
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Dec 5, 2023 · First produced on Broadway between two of Sondheim’s best-loved works, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd, the show explores the US navy (barbarians in their silly hats and epaulettes) barging into Japan in 1853, a country that had been closed off to foreigners for 250 years.
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Stephen Sondheim. Released February 1, 1976. Pacific Overtures (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Tracklist. 1. The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea by Original...
SYNOPSIS. The Original Broadway Cast. Act 1. The Reciter, a narrator and storyteller, describes the Floating Kingdom of Japan, an island empire in 1853, undisturbed by intruders for centuries.
Jun 6, 2024 · "A chronicle of Japanese history, beginning with the 1853 incursion of American warships, under the command of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, into Japanese waters in order to open up trade with a nation that had been closed to foreigners for centuries.
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