#pacific overtures

[resident-dumb-fuck]

every stephen sondheim musical ranked by number of ao3 hits it has

#saturday night #anyone can whistle #the frogs #road show #do i hear a waltz? #pacific overtures #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #passion #sunday in the park with george #a little night music #follies #gypsy #merrily we roll along #assassins #company #west side story #into the woods #sweeney todd #stephen sondheim

[broadwayreprise]

i sincerely apologise if your personal favorite is passion, saturday night, anyone can whistle, the frogs, bounce/road show. i was going for broader appeal... it was sophie's choice.

#stephen sondheim #sondheim #broadway #musicals #theatre #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #company #follies #a little night music #pacific overtures #sweeney todd #merrily we roll along #sunday in the park with george #into the woods #assassins #rip steve

[onewordshy]

delivering that hot Pacific Overtures content the kids crave

#Pacific Overtures #RuPaul's Drag Race #Stephen Sondheim #John Weidman #fairly certain I'm the only person on the planet who's had this intrusive thought so I'm sharing it with the rest of you

[libraryfag]

its like sondheim couldn't write a musical without a demanding mother because his own mother had such a forceful presence on his own life

#my posts #Stephen Sondheim #theatre tag #pacific overtures #sunday in the park with george #into the woods #gypsy #foxy sondheim

[doyouknowthismusical]

#do you know this musical #musical theater #poll #pacific overtures #stephen sondheim #john weidman #language: english

[sondheim-girly]

Today is Stephen Sondheims birthday! Go listen to a song of his, or a musical, or anything to honor his memory <3

#its also alw's birthday #but i dont care #stephen sondheim #sondheim #sondheims birthday #broadway musicals #musical theatre #theater kid #musicals #broadway #musical theater #west end #andrew lloyd webber #into the woods #sweeney todd #merrily we roll along #company #sunday in the park with george #west side story #assassins #anyone can whistle #passion #follies #pacific overtures #a little night music

[bestmusicalworldcup]

The Menier Chocolate Factory and Umeda Arts Theater's production of Pacific Overtures opens at the Menier Chocolate Factory on December 4th with a scheduled run lasting to February 24th. This production played in Tokyo and Osaka earlier this year.

#pacific overtures #theater news #musicals #not a poll

[sondheims-hat]

Pacific Overtures Off-Broadway, 1984. Pictured with John Weidman.

#Sondheim #John Weidman #Pacific Overtures

[musicalresolution]

Round 1 C Match 8

Propaganda under the cut

There Is No Other Way

There Is No Other Way from Pacific Overtures, a musical about the western colonization of Japan, is a song reminiscent of the way a narrator in Noh (the ancient japanese theatre art) would comment on a given character's situation. The difference is that there are two of them, observing a man head to his certain death, and his wife watching him go.

The song comments on futility of human actions, and the idea that life will continue to go on regardless of what terrible things will pass. While the second observer constantly pushes back, using phrases such as "There must be other ways" "I will have supper waiting" "I will expect you home this evening", the first observer always responds with the same phrase: "there is no other way".

As a japanese person myself, I resonate super deeply with this song not only on a lyrical level, being absolutely beautiful and using its imagery in the style of classic waka, but also in the sentiments it reflects that still hold true about Japanese culture almost 40 years later in such a truly haunting way in the same way that traditional japanese theatre does.

I Will Be There

anyone who likes a love ballad with a side of angst, this is some good shit right here.

it’s sad yet hopeful, even in a terrible situation. devastated to be forced to leave but determined to find one another again, even though those around them seem to conspire to keep them apart

#round 1 #musical theater #pacific overtures musical #count of monte cristo musical #pacific overtures #count of monte cristo #there is no other way #i will be there

[greeneyed-thestral]

#pacific overtures #stephen sondheim #sondheim #musical #musicals #broadway #theater #theatre

[bophtelophti]

But there was someone in a tree when it happened, A tree when it happened, A tree when it happened. I didn’t understand what the treaty meant, Why the letters got sent, How negotiations went, But I could see that it happened, ‘Cause I was someone in a tree when it happened.

#hamilton #pacific overtures #song parody

[ninewheels]

Here's some gifs I've made. At first I thought I'd just use them whenever the occasion called for it, but it so rarely does and in the meantime y'all should get to access them, so...

This last one feels like it wants a caption to go with it, but I don't know what yet, so in the meantime:

#reaction gifs #Dimension 20 #Brian David Gilbert #The Boys #The Pirates of Penzance #Angels in America #Pacific Overtures #Hal it's about cats

[libraryfag]

note to self: check the wikipedia of every sondheim musical, because actors normally have interesting connections. WDYM this reciter originated iroh in atla AND had jerry orbach aka the obc billy flynn as his landlord at the time of overtures???

#my posts #stephen sondheim #theatre tag #pacific overtures #mako #jerry orbach #atla #chicago

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

a friend asked why my url across platforms is always ohwhatagloomyshow & I explained that I had the honor of meeting Stephen Sondheim in 2013, where I built up the courage to thank him for his work and tell him the revival of Follies was the first show I’d ever seen on Broadway. He smiled and said kindly, “oh, what a gloomy show!” because I’m a 19 year old newborn baby praising a show about midlife crises.

Anyway, I told the friend it’s probably Sondheim’s gloomiest show, but that’s probably a debatable opinion! I would love to hear any arguments against it! I would say that of all his shows, it’s the one that ends with the least amount of hope. My definition of “gloomiest show” is most dependent on how you feel when you leave the theater, and in this case I do think Follies takes the cake, personally!

Full disclosure, the shows I’m least familiar with of Sondheim’s are Merrily & Passion.

#Stephen Sondheim #musical #musicals #follies #James Goldman #west side story #a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #company #the frogs #passion #into the woods #sunday in the park with george #sweeney todd #Saturday night #gypsy #anyone can whistle #do I hear a waltz #pacific overtures #a little night music #merrily we roll along #assassins

[michaelgruberfan]

Gruber and friends sing “Pretty Lady” from “Pacific Overtures” for Paper Mill Playhouse: Humanities Symposium Series, A Stephen Sondheim Retrospective. Hosted by Peter Filichia and Robert Johanson. You can watch the whole video here: (X) This took place on April 30th 1998 on the stage used for Follies which as we all know Gruber played Young Ben in. Follies despite its popularity and possible Broadway transfer eventually closed a month later on May 31 because there were no available theaters to transfer to. Gruber mostly only sings with minor parts/ in groups in this concert however does get a few solos such as with the song “Joanne” from “Sweeney Todd”

#Paper Mill Playhouse #Humanities Symposium Series #1998 #1990s #pacific overtures #video #op favs #Michael Gruber #Concerts

[jewishraypalmer]

This whole time I've been wondering why teacher Lee's voice sounded familiar and it's because he's on the Pacific Overtures OBC recording 😱

#!!!! #one of my fave musicals #can't believe I recognized his speaking voice from just having that memorized lmao #xo kitty #pacific overtures