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Article: Making overtures: B.D. Wong was thrilled by Pacific Overtures when he was a kid. Now he's in the lead.(theater)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2004
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Surely it's fate that B.D. Wong would star in the first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures. After all, it's the show that convinced the Tony winning Wong that he could be an actor in the first place.
"It, came through San Francisco right after it closed on Broadway," says Wong during a break front rehearsals for the show, which opens on December 2. "I chased [the star] Mako down the street after the performance and got his autograph on my Playbill and kept it forever."
Wong is also busy editing Social Grace, the first film he has directed. Somewhere in between, he films episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and, of course, ...