Pacific Overtures Tickets

One of Stephen Sondheim‘s most ambitious works comes to The Menier Chocolate Factory

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25 Nov 2023 - 25 Feb 2024

Menier Chocolate Factory

Run time: 1 hour 45 mins (no interval)

Includes interval

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Nippon. The Floating Kingdom.

One of Stephen Sondheim’s most ambitious creations comes to the Chocolate Factory in a co-production with Umeda Arts Theater in Japan, where it has already been a huge success in Tokyo and Osaka. The story of the arrival of the West in 1853 in isolated Japan is seen from a western perspective but played in an eastern style. The score is filled with some of Sondheim’s most ravishing music, including ‘Someone in a Tree’, ‘Pretty Lady’ and ‘A Bowler Hat’.

Pacific Overtures completes the Menier’s trilogy of Weidman/Sondheim musicals following their productions of Assassins and Road Show.