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	Pacific Overtures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pacific Overtures is a musical comedy tragedy that attempts to reflect upon Japan's modern history, beginning with the arrival of Commodore Perry.
		The music of Pacific Overtures has that rare quality of being distinctive and memorable on first hearing, begining with 'The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea', a number in which BD Wong's voice soars over the audience.
		I could go on and on about Pacific Overtures, but it would be easier to sum it up thus: it is an entertaining, moving, provocative and thought provoking work which gives BD Wong more to work with than he has had in years.
	bdwong.moonfruit.com /pacificovertures (417 words)

	Pacific Overtures, a CurtainUp review
		Though Pacific Overtures, like Assassins, has had a problematic history (the more opulently mounted 1976 Broadway premiere had more nay than yea sayers among critics, a 1984 Off-Broadway revival fared better), it has a rich and diverse score that's as lyrical as it is sophisticated.
		Miyamoto's Pacific Overtures is, of course, told from the viewpoint of his culture and how it viewed the Americans.
		Pacific Overtures -- imported from Japan and spoken and sung in Japanese at Lincoln Center
	www.curtainup.com /pacificovertures2004.html (1010 words)

	Pacific Overtures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pacific Overtures is a difficult and challenging work; it's also (probably irreparably) flawed; but it's gorgeous and passionate and spectacularly, intellectually stimulating.
		Pacific Overtures depicts the devastating effects of this unwanted intrusion on a culture that had grown inward and delicately refined.
		Pacific Overtures, a huge commercial flop when it was originally produced and a cold and difficult theatrical exercise under the best of conditions, is seldom done—so any revival at the Broadway scale is surely welcome.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/pacific43.htm (855 words)

	Pacific Overtures Interpreting and Translation of Asian Languages
		Pacific Overtures generally follows the terms and conditions adopted by the Association Internationale des Interprétes de Conférence (AIIC) and The American Association of Language Specialists (TAALS).
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	www.pacificovertures.com /POTRANS_e.html (294 words)

	'Pacific Overtures': A Bold Expedition
		Eric Schaeffer's gutsy new production of "Pacific Overtures" finds its footing in Stephen Sondheim's brilliant second-act number "Please Hello!" The multilayered comic song, caricaturing five bellicose Western powers with designs on feudal Japan, is remarkable for its intellectual daring.
		"Pacific Overtures," which premiered on Broadway in 1976, stakes out cerebral terrain for musical comedy: It's an attempt by American writers to tell the Darwinian story of an Eastern society overrun by the West, a culture that loses its way, then learns to adapt and thrive.
		For "Pacific Overtures," the director uses a similar template, reducing the scenery to a few assorted poles, crude crates and a flimsy rising sun, and winnowing the performers to a spartan cadre of 10.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/24/AR2005052401668.html?nav=rss_print/style (1112 words)

	Pacific Overtures -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The play was presented in (Click link for more info and facts about Kabuki) Kabuki style, with men playing women's parts and set changes made in full view of the audience by men dressed in fl.
		Weidman wrote an underrated (The words of an opera or musical play) libretto, telling the massive story from the points of view of two Japanese men, a (Feudal Japanese military aristocracy) samurai and a fisherman.
		Pacific Overtures opened at the (Click link for more info and facts about Winter Garden Theatre) Winter Garden Theatre in (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York on January 11, 1976 and closed after 193 performances on June 27, 1976.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pacific_overtures.htm (420 words)

	New York Beat column by Don Shewey on Pacific Overtures, South Pacific, and Garden of Earthly Delights
		Pacific Overtures has always seemed a formidable work by Sondheim, both because the score experiments with Eastern repetition and song forms, and because the concept seems heady and intellectual.
		Her astonishing version of South Pacific used 39 students and five musicians to create an Orwellian rethinking of the show, setting it in an institution where Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are used to teach disturbed kids to adjust to proper (rigid) social roles.
		And in the final moment of the show, just when we were rejoicing that Emile had won the girl by forsaking his nasty individuality and fighting the Japs with the rest of the good old American team, all the kids turned an paid tribute with trinkets and smiles to the Big Brother-like head doctor.
	www.donshewey.com /theater_reviews/nybeat_41884.html (892 words)

	Pacific Overtures Tickets - Buy Pacific Overtures Tickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Arden Theatre Company - Pacific Overtures (article: "Isolation and Connections") (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In this, too, Pacific Overtures is timely, for it asks its audiences to reflect on the consequences of the connections bred by pacific - and militaristic - overtures.
		Here is where history and Pacific Overtures diverge: Sondheim's Manjiro ultimately eschews foreign influence in favor of a return to his Japanese cultural origins, while the real Manjiro advocated for an end to Japanese isolation and devoted himself to preparing future leaders for an internationally-engaged Japan.
		Yet another local connection serves as a catalyst for reflecting on the legacy of Perry's "pacific" overtures: the U.S.S. Mississippi, one of two steam-frigates in the Perry squadron and his favorite ship, was built in the Philadelphia Naval Yard under Perry's own supervision.
	www.ardentheatre.org /2003/pacific_article.html (697 words)

	PACIFIC OVERTURES
		Originally produced in 1976 under the direction of Hal Prince, PACIFIC OVERTURES was neither a financial nor critical success.
		Miyamoto presented PACIFIC OVERTURES in Japanese for the New National Theater of Tokyo and his production became part of the Lincoln Center summer festival in 2002.
		Beginning in the year 1853 and moving through to the present, PACIFIC OVERTURES explores the consequences of Western culture on the island empire that kept out foreigners for some 250 years.
	www.broadwaybeat.com /russell/PacificOvertures.htm (542 words)

	Pacific Ocean on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pacific Ocean Post names John Williams senior vice president; Rick Hassen to head new interactive division.
		New records and range extensions of shrimps (Decapoda: Penaeoidea, Caridea) from the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Costa Rica, Central America.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PacificO1.asp (505 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "Pacific Overtures" in Cincinnati - 3/11/03
		Pacific Overtures was originally staged on Broadway in 1976.
		Pacific Overtures is a co-production between Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Company.
		Pacific Overtures is an intelligent, professional, and educational musical with a score by America's foremost theater songwriter.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/cincy/cincy85.html (831 words)

	Pacific Overtures Reviewed
		Pacific Overtures is the euphemism used by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 when Japan was persuaded to open up trade relations with the United States.
		In Pacific Overtures, aging makeup is added to Kayama and Manjiro to show their advancing age and gray hair.
		Pacific Overtures is showing now at Studio 54, for more information and tickets visit our database here.
	arts.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/article_2744.php (1162 words)

	Arden Theatre Company - Pacific Overtures (production notes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pacific Overtures remains a timely and relevant piece - the story it tells and the questions it raises continue to resonate in light of the events that are taking place in today's world.
		After Pacific Overtures, Prince and Sondheim went on to what is perhaps their greatest creation: Sweeney Todd.
		As a teenager, I would sit and listen to the original cast recording of Pacific Overtures and try to figure out how this exotic piece could be brought to life onstage.
	www.ardentheatre.org /2003/pacific_notes.html (497 words)

	Pacific Overtures Tickets - Schedule, Information - Theater Ticket Broker
		Orders for Pacific Overtures tickets that are no longer available will be cancelled or substituted at the customer's discretion.
		If you would like to attend a performance of a Pacific Overtures to see theater live, or to see a tour schedule and information, Coast to Coast Tickets is your source.
		Pacific Overtures tickets may be sold for more than the price listed on the ticket.
	www.coasttocoasttickets.com /theater/pacificovertures_tickets.shtml (406 words)

	East meets West in Playhouse's 'Pacific Overtures'
		Overtures, opening this week at Playhouse in the Park, embarks from Commodore Matthew Perry's 1853 expedition to Japan, a land that had been floating in blissful isolation for centuries.
		Overtures follows two men, samurai Kayama who initially rejects America's innovations, and Manjiro, who moves in the opposite direction, at first embracing change and then rediscovering tradition.
		Overtures, he says, does that rare thing - "it takes epically proportioned history, society and politics and paints it on a theatrical canvas; it illuminates how seismic events impact day-to-day life.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/03/02/tem_overtures02.html (574 words)

	Pacific Overtures - a musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
		Pacific Overtures tells the story of Japan's emergence from a small country content in its isolation from the rest of the world to its current position at the the forefront of international politics.
		The style of the musical is based on the ancient form of Japanese theatre known as Kabuki, and unlike previous Broadway musicals which had only attempted to capture the flavor of the East, Stephen Sondheim's score is an accurate recreation of Oriental music.
		Pacific Overtures opened at the Winter Garden on January 11, 1976 under the direction of Harold Prince.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/albm65.html (192 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Pacific' puts history into dramatic context (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		B.D. Wong is narrator to the action in Pacific Overtures, a musical set in the 19th century, when America established trade ties with Japan.
		Had it not premiered on Broadway 28 years ago, Pacific Overtures might be construed as a modern political parable — though curiously, not one focused on Iraq.
		The plot, in which a reluctant samurai and an imprisoned fisherman are authorized to confront their nation's would-be occupiers, takes a while to develop into potent drama.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/reviews/2004-12-06-pacific-overtures-fix_x.htm (549 words)

	'Pacific Overtures' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		''Pacific Overtures" attacks the senses with music, dance, color and energy, but like an abstract piece of art, it leaves some amazed, others bewildered.
		The stories also often include a "reciter," who in "Pacific Overtures" plays a main role as both a narrator and a Shogun in the story.
		North Shore's "Pacific Overtures" is a dive into Japanese culture, music and storytelling, as well as a history lesson of an ancient and proud culture and how it removed itself from isolation to become the world power it is today.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20030905/LI_001.htm (602 words)

	Pacific Overtures
		In Pacific Overtures the Reciter fulfills the part of narrator-singer; he begins the opening number, introduces characters, interrupts with explanations and sayings of wisdom, and punctuates the drama with intonations of exclamation, doubt, surprise, and grief.
		Another very prominent feature of Kabuki and Pacific Overtures that is a constant reminder of their presentationalism is the fact that male actors perform the female roles.
		In a sense the transformation of the onnagata resembles the relationship of Pacific Overtures to the Kabuki.
	www.larryavisbrown.homestead.com /files/Sondheim/pacificovertures.htm (3633 words)

	AroundCinci :: History becomes personal in Pacific Overtures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pacific Overtures, Stephen Sondheim’s 1976 musical, is not often performed on the modern stage.
		Simply put, Pacific Overtures takes Americans out of their comfort zone for a few hours.
		Although it may be outside the norm for Cincinnati audiences, Pacific Overtures is a theatrical experience that will be memorable, entertaining and enlightening.
	www.aroundcinci.com /gen_includes/article.asp?articleid=926 (406 words)

	Pacific Overtures (1976 Original Broadway Cast) - Minta.us
		Pacific Overtures is one of Stephen Sondheim's most rewarding but least-appreciated works.
		Worthy of special mention is the song Sondheim has often claimed as his best ever, "Someone in a Tree," which describes the crucial meeting in the treaty house from the perspective of different characters on the outside.
		Over a quarter century after its 1976 Broadway debut, Pacific Overtures began to enjoy increased attention from theater companies, culminating in a Broadway revival in 2004.
	www.minta.us /60897102052515601201.html (695 words)

	'Pacific Overtures' strains at Signature - The Washington Times: Entertainment - May 27, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Pacific Overtures," with its fusion of Eastern-inflected music and lyrics and Broadway musical conventions from the West, is regarded as one of Stephen Sondheim's more experimental works.
		Schaeffer conceived "Pacific Overtures" as a chamber piece, cutting the cast down from 39 to 10 and the 22-piece orchestra to a lean seven musicians, many of whom play traditional Japanese instruments.
		"Pacific Overtures" juggles political, economic, social, and ethnic themes, which requires a slew of exposition.
	www.washtimes.com /entertainment/20050526-085725-6622r.htm (559 words)

	Playbill News: East Pacific: Roundabout Brings Sondheim-Weidman Musical to Broadway in 2004
		Pacific Overtures follows the introduction of Japan to westernization from the landing of Commodore Matthew Perry in the "Floating Kingdom" of Nippon in 1853 over 150 years.
		In the program notes, director Miyamoto explained, "Pacific Overtures was a great experiment to be added to Broadway because the play explored the new possibility of musical theatre as a form of cultural exploration.
		Pacific Overtures debuted at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre on January 11, 1976, and ran for 193 performances.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/81600.html (535 words)

	'Pacific Overtures': West Meets East in A Show Gone South (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miyamoto's second pass at "Pacific Overtures," however, lacks the savvy or the charm of his first.
		Just as fatally, Miyamoto fails to invigorate the human dimension of "Pacific Overtures," the idea that the West's "contamination" of feudal Japan 150 years ago had tragic consequences for its people.
		It may be that Miyamoto wanted to steer clear of the darkness, avoid as much as possible the downbeat view "Pacific Overtures" peddles, at a time when America's image is so tarnished in the eyes of so many.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A30172-2004Dec2.html (1077 words)

	Pacific Overtures, Yet Again
		This may is the third reincarnation of "Pacific Overtures." What brings it here yet again is the Japanese director, Amnon Miyamoto, who had previously staged the show at the New National Theater in Tokyo.
		This is certainly not the case in "Pacific Overtures," where more is more.
		Noh, or no Noh, "Pacific Overtures" is a mish mash of styles and much of it is a mess.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /mc04121t.htm (676 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Pacific Overtures -
		A couple of drawbacks in the Roundabout's Pacific Overtures are specific to the director's vision and execution.
		Pacific Overtures is a prime example, with its book scenes that cover much ground but don't have much more scope than a college survey course.
		Pacific Overtures too often feels like a trip to a contemporary History of Humankind Museum room rather than a jaunt to a musical theater house.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/5404 (963 words)

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