Pacific Overtures at David Henry Hwang Theater

Pacific Overtures

David Henry Hwang Theater
120 Judge John Aiso St. Los Angeles

1853, and it's the end of the world. Commodore Matthew C. Perry intends to open the gates of isolationist Japan. When Samurai Kayama and America-loving fisherman Manjiro are tasked with meeting the American gunboat docked on the coast of Kanagawa, little could they know that they would irreversibly change the "Floating Kingdom."

Presented by East West Players

Thru - Dec 8, 2024

Thu, Dec 5: 8:00pm

Fri, Dec 6: 8:00pm

Sat, Dec 7: 2:00pm & 8:00pm

Sun, Dec 8: 5:00pm

Show Type: Musical

Box Office: 213-625-7000

www.eastwestplayers.org/pacific24

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Pacific Overtures Reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Highly Recommended

"...East West Players has a long history with "Pacific Overtures," Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical about the opening of Japan to international trade by American warships in 1853 and the historical ramifications no one could have predicted."

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- Charles McNulty

Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...East West’s Artistic Director Emeritus Tim Dang stages largely in the kabuki style, but with a sex-integrated cast, instead of an all-male cast as written and in actual kabuki theater. I admit to preferring shows to be performed as written, but I was looking forward to seeing the female roles played by women. However, not a single major female role is performed by a woman. With men in dresses pretending to be women alongside actual women, it sometimes feels more campy than kabuki."

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- Nick McCall

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...Stephen Sondheim fans could not wish for a more spectacular pick-me-up from post-election blues than East West Players' Broadway-couldn't-do-it-better production of Sondheim and John Weidman's rarely-revived 1976 classic Pacific Overtures."

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- Steven Stanley

Pacific Overtures at David Henry Hwang Theater