Article: Pacific Overtures.(Theater Review)

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Asian Pages;  January 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... of the ground-breaking musical Pacific Overtures with music and lyrics by Broadway ... the direction of Gary Gisselman, Pacific Overtures opens Saturday, January 10, 2004 ... lavish Broadway production in 1976, Pacific Overtures takes on the historic moment when ...

Article: 'PACIFIC OVERTURES' A FEAST FOR THE EYE AND EAR
Post-Tribune (IN);  March 20, 1987 ;     664 words ... ... Chicago. Stephen Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures" is hardly your average musical ... United States in the middle 1800s - "Pacific Overtures" has proved to be a work of lasting ... ruled by conservative warlords. As "Pacific Overtures" shows, the Japanese authorities ...

Article: Super Sondheim 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Night ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  October 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Herald Correspondent "Pacific Overtures" Mini-review: Brilliant ... running in Chicago, "Pacific Overtures" and "A Little Night ... innovative works, though "Pacific Overtures" is by far the riskier ...

Article: 'Pacific Overtures' strains at ...
The Washington Times;  May 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES "Pacific Overtures," with its fusion of Eastern ... enjoyable. Mr. Schaeffer conceived "Pacific Overtures" as a chamber piece, cutting the ... does not believe in isolationism. "Pacific Overtures" juggles political, economic ...

Article: Views, Reviews, Previews: 'Pacific Overtures' at ...
Oakland Post;  September 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 2001 Views, Reviews, Previews: `Pacific Overtures' at TheaterWorks; Adams Biography ... remarkable "Passion," and now "Pacific Overtures" again. No fooling that the over ... artistic director - fell in love with "Pacific Overtures" when it was first presented on ...

Article: 'Pacific Overtures': A Bold Expedition
The Washington Post;  May 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Schaeffer's gutsy new production of "Pacific Overtures" finds its footing in Stephen Sondheim ... assimilation puts the human dimension of "Pacific Overtures" under a microscope in a thrilling ... challenging works in the Sondheim canon. "Pacific Overtures," which premiered on Broadway ...

Article: `PACIFIC OVERTURES' USHERS IN NEW ERA.(L.A. LIFE) ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 27, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... production of Stephen Sondheim's ``Pacific Overtures,'' and they're one reason why ... remedied. First produced in 1976, ``Pacific Overtures'' was a show ahead of our own multicultural ... Broadway-musical idiom. Thus ``Pacific Overtures'' is about cultural artifice and ...