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32nd Season 1998
Pacific Overtures Music & Lyrics By Stephen Sondheim Additional Material By Hugh Wheeler
Original Broadway Production Directed By Harold Prince Produced By Harold Prince in association with Ruth Mitchel
Directed
By Tim Dang
Contemporary Choreography By Betsy Chang Kabuki Consultant & Choreographer David Furumoto Set Design Lisa Hashimoto Costume Designer Naomi Yoshida Rodriguez Lighting Designer G. Shizuko Herrera Sound Designer Joel Iwataki Hair & Make-up By Newton Kazuo Koshi Property Master Ken Takemoto Sound Equipment/Engineering Karl Maeda
Stage
Manager
Ricardo
Figueroa A musical theatre piece in the tradition of great American musicals, and incorporating techniques of the Japanese Kabuki theater, PACIFIC OVERTURES is about the historic events that made Japan open trade with the West, ultimately ending over 200 years of isolation. That extraordinary culture shock is what PACIFIC OVERTURES is about: the price of progress. Cast Keone Young..................................Reciter, Shogun, Storyteller, Emperor David Furumoto...............................Lord Abe, Merchant's Mother, Madam Ke'o Woolford............................................First Samurai, Third Councilor Zar Acayan.................................................................................Manjiro Alvin Ing..........................Shogun's Mother, Observer I, American Admiral Ed You....Second Councilor, Merchant, Older Swordsman, Thief, Soothsayer Tedd Szeto...........................................Russian Admiral, Sailor 2, Kuroko Addie Yungmee.....Second Samurai, Commodore Perry, Storyteller Dancer Merv Maruyama.........................................................................Kayama Denise Iketani................................................................Tamate, Kuroko Randall Guiaya.................................Observer 2, Priest I, Sailor 3, Kuroko Stella Choe..................Merchant's Son, Second Noble, Pretty Lady, Kuroko Hisato Masuyama...Fisherman (alternate), Sumo Wrestler, French Admiral Mike Hagiwara.................First Officer, Lord of the South, Geisha, Samurai Jason Fong..........................Fisherman (alternate), Second Officer, Kuroko Janice K. Terukina.....................................Shogun's Wife, Geisha, Kuroko Deborah Nishimura.........................Physician, Geisha, Boy, Dutch Admiral Sabrina Lu............................................................Priest 2, Priest, Kuroko Paul Wong...Samurai Companion, Geisha, Warrior, British Admiral, Sailor I, Kurt Kuniyoshi...........................Lord of the South, Sumo Wrestler, Kuroko
Musicians
George Abe.....................................................Japanese Winds/Percussion David Cheung..........................................................Keyboards/Percussion Lisa Joe...................................................................................Keyboards Bryan Yamami...........................................................Japanese Percussion Scott Nagatani.........................................................................Keyboards Elaine Ono................................................................................Keyboards David Iwataki.............................................................Keyboards Alternate Tom Kurai....................................................Japanese Percussion Alternate
Understudies
Chanel Akiko Hirai, Tammy Yamada
PACIFIC OVERTURES Photos by Michael Lamont Click on photos for full 72dpi version
PACIFIC OVERTURES is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., AT&T, and the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles.
PACIFIC OVERTURES is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance by Music Theater International.
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