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Pacific Overtures
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Pacific Overtures (1976), a musical play by John
Weidman (book), Stephen
Sondheim (music, lyrics). [
Winter Garden Theatre, 193 perf.; NYDCC Award.] Commodore Perry from America appears off the coast of Japan in 1853 with the intentions of opening up the “floating kingdom” after hundreds of years of isolation. But the Japanese react with horror at the Westerners' arrival. In a series of both funny and tragic vignettes, the history of the next 120 years is revealed, showing how the secluded nation adopted Western ways and rose from a medieval civilization to a world power.
Notable songs: Pretty Lady; A Bowler Hat; Please Hello; Someone in a Tree. The ambitious musical was made more daunting by producer‐director Hal
Prince's decision to use Kabuki and other Japanese theatre techniques to tell the story. Notices were decidedly mixed but everyone marveled at Boris
Aronson's evocative scenery that meshed Asian art with Broadway panache. The musical was successfully revived Off Broadway in 1984 with a smaller, more intimate production and was seen again on Broadway in 2004.
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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French overture
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
French overture. 17th- and 18th-cent. form of the piece of orch. mus. played before an opera or oratorio (see overture ). It was orig. developed by Lully, and was in 3 movts., slow, quick, slow.
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Pacific Overtures
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Pacific Overtures (1976), a musical play by John Weidman (book), Stephen Sondheim (music, lyrics). [ Winter Garden Theatre , 193 perf...
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Overture, Scherzo, and Finale
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Overture, Scherzo, and Finale. Orch. work by Schumann, Op.52, comp. 1841, rev. 1845.
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