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Article: Pacific Overtures
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- Windy City Times
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- March 25, 2009
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THEATER REVIEW
Pacific Overtures
Playwright: Stephen Sondheim
(music and lyrics).
John Weidman (book),
additional material by Hugh Wheeler
At: Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago
at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 W. Belmont
Phone: 773-327-5252; $37
Runs through: April 23
BY CATEY SULLIVAN
Toward the end of the first act of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures, an unexpected death dominates a scene that should be one of the musical's emotional lynchpins. But in Porchlight's production of the intricate musical, it contains only a wisp of truth. Instead of immersing the authence in anguish, the scene highlights the fundamental shortcoming of director L. Walter Steam's ambitious staging.
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