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""Priceless and peerless...a thrilling work of theatricality."" -Wayman Wong, San Francisco Examiner> For over three decades, Stephen Sondheim has been the foremost composer and lyricist writing regularly for Broadway. His substantial body of work now stands as one of the most sustained achievements of the American stage.> Pacific Overtures>, originally produced in 1976, combines an unsurpassed mastery of the American musical with such arts as Kabuki theatre, haiku, dance, and masks to recount Commander Matthew Perry's 1835 opening of Japan and its consequences right up to the present.> This new edition of Pacific Overtures incorporates substantial revisions made by the authors for the successful 1984 revival.>

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'Breaks new ground in the theatre and leaves the audience shaken and breathless with excitement and beauty... It is different, courageous, gorgeous and jolting' * Daily News * 'Priceless and peerless - a thrilling work of theatricality' * San Francisco Examiner *

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Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was a celebrated American composer and lyricist, one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theatre. Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987). He won many awards including eight Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008), eight Grammy Awards, an Olivier Award, an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Author photo by Jerry Jackson

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