Pacific Overtures,' Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical about the forcible opening of Japan to foreign trade, is ...

“Pardon me, I was there,” sings an old man near the end of the first act of Pacific Overtures. He’s addressing the show’s narrator, called the Reciter, who is recounting the fateful day in 1854 when a ...

'Overture' has tall stems of bright magenta flowers with scarlet stems and calyces. Glossy green leaves, held upright, redden in winter ...