Pacific Overtures News

 
Nashville Scene
Blackbird Theater's 'Pacific Overtures' is cerebral, stylish
The Tennessean
When the original production of Pacific Overtures opened on Broadway in 1976, it challenged audiences in a way that was both exhilarating and baffling. A Broadway musical that explores the Westernization of 19th-century isolationist Japan, ...
Stop Reading, Go See Sondheim's Pacific Overtures at LipscombNashville Scene

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South Pacific at TPAC's Jackson Hall
Nashville Scene
South Pacific is no Pacific Overtures. It tells its stories of Americans interacting with Pacific islanders during World War II in the jaunty, belly-laughing and successfully romantic style that made Rodgers and Hammerstein a household phrase, ...

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Pacific Overtures at Lipscomb's Shamblin Theater
Nashville Scene
Such is the theatrical history lesson that is Sondheim's Pacific Overtures, first presented on Broadway in 1976. It definitely falls into the category of alternative musical, with its story of American naval adventurism in isolated Japan in 1853, ...


 
Blackbird Theater presents rarely produced Pacific Overtures in Shamblin Theatre
PressZoom (press release)
Lipscomb University's resident theater company, Blackbird Theater, will stage the rarely-produced Pacific Overtures by Stephen Sondheim, Feb. 2-18, at the Shamblin Theatre on Lipscomb's campus. (PressZoom) - Lipscomb University's resident theater ...


 
Naked Japanese Gangsters Inspire Romantic Tattoo Musical?
Huffington Post (blog)
(Hint: it's not Pacific Overtures or Shogun: The Musical.) Ding, ding, ding! Time's up. It's brand-new musical called Tokio Confidential, and to my knowledge it's the only tattoo musical in the world. Despite such menacing inspiration, ...


 
Shinsai: Theatres for Japan Will Include Works By Stephen Sondheim, Jeanine ...
Playbill.com
By Adam Hetrick Selections fron Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Pacific Overtures will be performed as part of the March 11 benefit Shinsai: Theatres for Japan at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, ...
High-powered theater pros such as Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner join Japan ...Washington Post

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Worldly affairs
Bay Area Reporter
by Richard Dodds Stirfry Theatre hasn't pulled any punches in finding the first vehicle for its mission of showcasing Asian-American actors in shows that have no specific Pacific leanings. Which means no Flower Drum Song or Pacific Overtures or The ...

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