PACIFIC OVERTURES at Signature Theatre

Описание: PACIFIC OVERTURES
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Directed by Ethan Heard
March 7 – April 9, 2023

A stunning exploration of tradition and transformation based on historical events.

In 1853, after 200 years of stability, Japan faces an American expedition determined to open the “floating kingdom” to trade. The isolationist island’s reckoning with the unwelcome western influence is brilliantly illuminated through a kaleidoscope of stories about sailors, samurai, “someone in a tree” and two friends who choose radically different paths.

This innovative epic of East meets West is one of Sondheim’s most ambitious and rarely produced musicals.

“One of the great musicals of our time.”
― Variety