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Article: Gary Gisselman's `Pacific Overtures' is excellent work.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- January 13, 2004
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Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer
In a recent interview, director Gary Gisselman said he approaches a theatrical work with one central question: How well does the script tell its story? In a flight of fancy, one imagines the wheels grinding in Gisselman's mind as he watches on opening night - that amid the amazing pageantry and lively pacing, he is wondering: Did we tell the story clearly?
Gisselman had the opportunity to obsess on that question as he brought Stephen Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures" to Park Square Theatre last weekend in association with Theater Mu. It is a beautiful, muscular piece of theater, told in lean yet spectacular images by an ...