Pacific Overtures
Shows · Pacific Overtures
In recounting the history of the emergence of Japan from a serenely isolated country to its present position in the forefront of international commerce, the musical covers a 120-year period, beginning with Comm. Matthew Perry’s threateningly persuasive visit to the Floating Kingdom in 1853, and taking us through changes in social order, customs and dress that were the price Japan paid for its present-day affluence.
- Opened
- 1976
- Performances
- 193
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1976 | Winter Garden Theatre Original. January 11, 1976 · Harold Prince | 193 performances |
| 2004 | Studio 54 Revival. December 2, 2004 · Amon Miyamoto | 69 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Pacific Overtures matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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50 passages naming Pacific Overtures, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Birch, Patricia Candide Grease Little Night Music, A Pacific Overtures They’re Playing Our Song You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387
Few Broadway musicals have ever dared so much on so many levels as Pacific Overtures. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p269
the 1970s institutionalized the concept musical as a viable alternative to the traditional book musical (Stephen Sondheim’s Company , Follies , and Pacific Overtures ) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p3
With the electric current of the nervy, ultramodern Company, he embarked with Hal Prince on a journey of shows, including Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, and Sweeney Todd, which, if not always financial hits, can absolutely not be dismissed as failures in any sense, as they undeniably made waves with… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p77
Pacific Overtures ran for 193 performances. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p393
These six shows, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, and Merrily We Roll Along, form a remarkable group. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p407
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