Critical Essay by Louis Snyder
Whether or not it becomes a Broadway smash with its offbeat oriental setting and treatment, "Pacific Overtures" may move to be a step forward in American ...
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Critical Essay by Martin Gottfried
Stephen Sondheim's music [for "Pacific Overtures"],… is simply formidable—a huge amount of it built into sung sequences so extens...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
The translation of a culture—and a translation of a translation at that—this is only the beginning of the beguiling and sometimes bewildering complexities...
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Critical Essay by Jack Kroll
"Pacific Overtures" is an audacious attempt to create a musical play by mixing American sensibility and technique with those of Japan—specifically th...
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In the following review of Pacific Overtures, Pang examines Sondheim's commentary on the Western cultural invasion of Japan, focusing on his use of cultural satire and juxtaposition of Japanese...
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In the following essay, Sutcliffe maintains that Pacific Overtures is “the most unusual of all Sondheim's musicals.”
The English National Opera, like similar German opera house...
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Critical Essay by Louis Snyder
