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Eu Jin Hwang, Sario Solomon, Saori Oda, Rachel Jayne Picar, Luoran Ding, Masashi Fujimoto in Pacific Overtures. Photo by Manuel Harlan.

Pacific Overtures Ensemble. Photo by Manuel Harlan.

Sario Solomon, Saori Oda, Masashi Fujimoto in Pacific Overtures. Photo by Manuel Harlan.

Lee V G, Ethan Le Phong, Iverson Yabut, Luoran Ding, Rachel Jayne Picar in Pacific Overtures. Photo by Manuel Harlan.

Pacific Overtures

Show Info Cast & Creative Age & Content Guide

Genre Musical

Venue

Menier Theatre (Menier Chocolate Factory) Get directions

First Performance 25/11/2023

Closing 24/02/2024

Running Time 1h45, no interval

Nippon. The Floating Kingdom.

One of Stephen Sondheim’s most ambitious creations comes to the Chocolate Factory in a co-production with Umeda Arts Theater in Japan, where it has already been a huge success in Tokyo and Osaka. The story of the arrival of the West in 1853 in isolated Japan is seen from a western perspective but played in an eastern style. The score is filled with some of Sondheim’s most ravishing music, including ‘Someone in a Tree’, ‘Pretty Lady’ and ‘A Bowler Hat’.

Pacific Overtures completes the Menier’s trilogy of Weidman/Sondheim musicals following their productions of Assassins and Road Show.

Cast

Reciter - Jon Chew

Tamate - Kanako Nakano

Shogun/Madam - Saori Oda

Kayama - Takuro Ohno

Manjiro - Joaquin Pedro Valdes

Company - Luoran Ding, Masashi Fujimoto, Rachel Hayne Picar, Eu Jin Hwang, Abel Law, Ethan Le Phong, JoJo Meredith, Patrick Munday, Sario Solomon, Joy Tan, Lee V G and Iverson Yabut

Creative

Music and Lyrics by - Stephen Sondheim

Book by - John Weidman

Director - Matthew White

Set Designer - Paul Farnsworth

Costume Designer - Ayako Maeda

Sound Designer - Gregory Clarke

Choreographer - Ashley Nottingham

Musical Supervisor - Catherine Jayes

Orchestrator - Jonathan Tunick

Musical Director - Paul Bogaev

Hair and Make-up Designer - Wakana Yoshihara

Cultural Consultant - You-Ri Yamanaka

Advisory Content

Some loud noises and some smoke affects.

There is no admittance into the theatre if you are late and no re-admission should you leave the auditorium.

This show has now closed, however you may also be interested in:

The Choir Of Man

Hadestown

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