On CBS.com: Six show girls attacked
Find Articles in:
all
Business
Reference
Technology
News
Sports
Health
Autos
Arts
Home & Garden
advertisement
advertisement

Overtures from the other side of the Pacific.(Brief Article)

American Theatre,  May, 2002  by Hagio, Hitomi

premiumContent provided
in partnership with
premium

The Lincoln Center Festival in New York will host a Japanese-language production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical Pacific Overtures, which premiered in the fall of 2000 at Tokyo's New National Theater. The show appears at the festival July 9-13.

THE NEW NATIONAL THEATER OF

Tokyo has completed its first musical. One might think there would be an interesting parallel to be drawn between this Japanese-language production's finally opening the door to American musical theatre and the opening of Japan described in Pacific Overtures--but the similarity is ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.