...This chapter focuses on one of Sondheim shows: Pacific Overtures (1976). This show uses the Kabuki theatre as a launching pad for understanding the Japanese. Kabuki was already a concept musical before there were musicals; it shares some of the genre's presentational elements...

... is fragmented, and narrative ceases to function. A Little Night Music is about the resolution of identity crises caused by the characters trying to live through contradictory fantasies. Pacific Overtures makes problematic how we know the past and critiques the colonial process...

... after footnote, which can quickly become tiring to the reader Even so, I think it might prove useful to provide a generalized guide to the sources. Instrumentally Speaking (Bennett) Mame Pacific Overtures With the subject of Broadway orchestration being a relatively unmined field, most...

...Ashley M. Pribyl, Politics, Representation, and Collaboration in Pacific Overtures (1976) In: Sondheim in Our Time and His. Edited by: W. Anthony Sheppard, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197603192.003.0007 The chapter...

...In the 1960s and 70s, the collaboration between Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince produced a series of Broadway musicals—including Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and Pacific Overtures—that helped to challenge the positioning of musicals on the cultural barometer...

... Lady No No Nanette No Strings Oklahoma! Oliver! Pacific Overtures Pajama Game Peter Pan (1954) Promises Promises Seven Lively Arts She Loves Me Shenandoah Show Boat South Pacific Take Me Along Tenderloin They’re Playing Our Song Walking Happy West Side Story Wonderful Town Zorbà...

...Amon Miyamoto’s 2000 Japanese-language production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, the 1976 oddity about the American-driven opening of isolationist Japan in the nineteenth century, reflected a starkly different perception of events from the American version. As opposed...

..., Pacific Overtures, and West Side Story. Sunday in the Park with George whiteness studies Dyer Richard Pacific Overtures Bernstein Leonard Miranda Lin Manuel West Side Story Sondheim Stephen Row Jess Scorsese Martin Albee Edward Company Into the Woods Updike John...

... backward through time, Pacific Overtures fast-forwards many decades at the end, and past and present appear to coexist in Follies. The chapter discusses the difference between (linear) plot and situation and how Sondheim's scores for these and other shows moved musical...

... himself had to offer was enough. Sondheim’s brilliant song “Please Hello” from Pacific Overtures, an extended musical sequence introducing multiple characters from different countries, exerted a lasting musical influence. Shire was hired to write dance music for the “Tick-Tock” sequence...