Pacific Overtures
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title:
Pacific Overtures
text:
Pacific Overtures is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by John Weidman, with "additional material by" Hugh Wheeler. Set in nineteenth-century Japan, it tells the story of the country's westernization starting in 1853, when American ships forcibly opened it to the rest of the world. The story is told from the point of view of the Japanese, and focuses in particular on the lives of two friends who are caught in the change. Sondheim wrote the score in a quasi-Japanese
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description:
1976 musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Overtures
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T19:31:14Z
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