Pacific Overtures
Original Broadway Production [1976]
Production Info
OPENING
:
January 11, 1976
CLOSING: June 27, 1976
Winter Garden Theatre [New York, NY]
193 perf.
Opening Night Cast
- Mako [Reciter]
- Yuki Shimoda [Abe (First Councillor)]
- Sab Shimono [Manjiro]
- James Dybas [Second Councillor]
- Alvin Ing [Shogun's Mother]
- Freddy Mao [Third Councillor]
- Isao Sato [Kayama]
- Soon-Teck Oh [Tamate (Kayama's Wife)/Samurai (with a mask)/Storyteller/Swordsman]
- Ernest Abuba [Samurai]
- Mark Hsu Syers [Samurai]
- Haruki Fujimoto [Servant]
- Alvin Ing [Observers]
- Ricardo Tobia [Observers]
- Jae Woo Lee [Fisherman]
- Alvin Ing [Merchant]
- Timm Fujii [Son]
- Conrad Yama [Grandmother]
- Mark Hsu Syers [Thief]
- Ernest Abuba [Adams]
- Larry Hama [Williams]
- Haruki Fujimoto [Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry]
- Freda Foh Shen [Shogun's Wife]
- Ernest Harada [Physician]
- Timm Fujii [Priests]
- Gedde Watanabe [Priests]
- Mark Hsu Syers [Soothsayer]
- Conrad Yama [Sumo Wrestlers]
- Jae Woo Lee [Sumo Wrestlers]
- Patrick Kinser-Lau [Shogun's Companion]
- Mako [Shogun]
- Ernest Harada [Madam]
- Timm Fujii [Girls]
- Patrick Kinser-Lau [Girls]
- Gedde Watanabe [Girls]
- Leslie Watanabe [Girls]
- James Dybas [Old Man]
- Gedde Watanabe [Boy]
- Mark Hsu Syers [Warrior]
- Tom Matsusaka [Imperial Priest]
- Ernest Abuba [Nobles]
- Timm Fujii [Nobles]
- Alvin Ing [American Admiral]
- Ernest Harada [British Admiral]
- Patrick Kinser-Lau [Dutch Admiral]
- Mark Hsu Syers [Russian Admiral]
- James Dybas [French Admiral]
- Larry Hama [Lords of the South]
- Jae Woo Lee [Lords of the South]
- Mako [Jonathan Goble]
- Conrad Yama [Japanese Merchant]
- Freddy Mao [Samurai's Daughter]
- Timm Fujii [British Sailors]
- Patrick Kinser-Lau [British Sailors]
- Mark Hsu Syers [British Sailors]
- Joey Ginza [Musician]
- Susan Kikuchi [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Diane Lam [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Kim Miyori [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Freda Foh Shen [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Kenneth S. Eiland [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Timm Fujii [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Joey Ginza [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Patrick Kinser-Lau [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Tony Marinyo [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Kevin Maung [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Dingo Secretario [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Mark Hsu Syers [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Ricardo Tobia [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Gedde Watanabe [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Leslie Watanabe [Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople]
- Fusako Yoshida [Musician (Shamisen)]
- Genji Ito [Musician (Percussion)]
Staff/Creatives
- Boris Aronson [Scenic Production]
- Florence Klotz [Costume Design]
- Tharon Musser [Lighting Design]
- Harold Prince [Producer]
- Richard Allen (ii) [Makeup/Wigs]
- Ruth Mitchell [Producer (in association with)]
- E.J. Taylor [Masks and Dolls]
- Harold Prince [Director]
- Jack Mann (i) [Sound Design]
- Patricia Birch [Choreography]
- Haruki Fujimoto [Kabuki Consultant]
- Paul Gemignani [Musical Director]
- Jonathan Tunick [Orchestrations]
- Daniel Troob [Dance Music]
Authors
- John Weidman [Book]
- Hugh Wheeler [Additional Material]
- Stephen Sondheim [Music & Lyrics]
Video
Mako and Company sing "Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea" on the 1976 Tonys.
Photos
no photos
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