PACIFIC OVERTURES
Music and Lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by
John Weidman
With additional material by
Hugh Wheeler
Directed by
Amon Miyamoto
Michael Wolk, as CEO of Gorgeous Entertainment, co-produced PACIFIC OVERTURES.
Directed by Amon Miyamoto. A 2000 revival of the 1976 classic directed by Harold Prince.
Original creators Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and John Weidman (book) attended a performance of “Pacific Overtures” at the New National Theatre Tokyo, and what they saw stunned and delighted them. Director Amon Miyamoto had boldly re-envisioned their musical from the Japanese point of view, giving it an energy and eloquence unmatched by any prior production. Sondheim and Weidman’s praise for Miyamoto’s staging helped secure invitations for the Japanese-language production to be part of the Lincoln Center Festival and the “Sondheim Celebration” at The Kennedy Center in 2002. Critics in both New York and Washington, D.C. raved about the musical. In the fall of 2004, the Roundabout Theatre in association with Gorgeous Entertainment presented the first English-language version of Amon Miyamoto’s dazzling production on Broadway.
