⭐ JON CHEW, KANAKO NAKANO, SAORI ODA, TAKURO OHNO, JOAQUIN PEDRO VALDES & MORE ANNOUNCED FOR MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY REVIVAL OF PACIFIC OVERTURES ⭐
The full cast has been announced for the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman’s 1976 Tony-nominated musical PACIFIC OVERTURES.
Starring Jon Chew as the Reciter, Kanako Nakano as Tamate, Saori Oda as Shogun/Madam, Takuro Ohno as Kayama and Joaquin Pedro Valdes as Manjiro,
Featuring Luoran Ding, Masashi Fujimoto, Rachel Jayne Picar, Eu Jin Hwang, Abel Law, Ethan Le Phong, JoJo Meredith, Patrick Munday, Sario Solomon, Joy Tan, Lee V G and Iverson Yabut.
PACIFIC OVERTURES will be directed by Matthew White, with set design by Paul Farnsworth, costume design by Ayako Maeda, sound design by Gregory Clarke, choreography by Ashley Nottingham, musical supervision by Catherine Jayes, musical direction by Paul Bogaev, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, and hair & makeup design by Wakana Yoshihara. You-Ri Yamanaka is the cultural consultant.
Commodore Matthew Perry’s 1853 mission to open trade relations with isolationist Japan through gunboat diplomacy forges an unlikely friendship between the samurai, Kayama, and the Americanized fisherman, Manjiro. Kayama and Manjiro – and all of Japanese society – must face the wave of Westernization that follows.
The musical is the first co-production between the Menier Chocolate Factory and Japan’s Umeda Arts Theatre. This staging, following successful runs in Tokyo and Osaka, also marks the first time the revisions made by Sondheim and Weidman in 2017 will be seen in the U.K.
PACIFIC OVERTURES has music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman, with additional material by Hugh Wheeler.
PACIFIC OVERTURES will play the Menier Chocolate Factory, running from 25th November 2023 – 24th February 2024.
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