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Pacific Overtures. A new Stephen Sondheim-Harold Prince musical about Matthew Perry's trip to Japan and its effect on the lives of two Japanese families. At the Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, November 11-29. Performances Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with matinees Thursday and Saturday. Previews November...
Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM...
Adapter-Director Burt Shevelove and Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim have teamed up to employ Aristophanes as a springboard for the sort of romping farce that they achieved together with a Plautus original in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The result this time, while thoroughly amiable, is more tentative and less hilarious, chiefly because the Aristophanic model does not offer as robust comic material as the Plautine...
Shevelove has peppered the script with contemporary theatrical in-jokes and quizzical one-liners. As the god of wine and drama, Dionysus quips: "A little wine will get you through a lot of drama." One knows by past performance that the Sondheim lyrics are contrapuntally clever and that his music is astringently bittersweet, but the acoustics round the pool do not permit absolute proof. If Yale should opt for participatory theater, the show could close with a gorgeously refreshing swim-in. · T.E. Kalem
...production began this winter at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and it is even better on Broadway. Lillian Hellman's book for the 1956 Broadway production, which had a troubled history, was scrapped in favor of a faster and frothier new version by Hugh Wheeler, with Stephen Sondheim contributing a few new lyrics to the originals by Poet Richard Wilbur. What remains the same, of course, is Leonard Bernstein's restless, delightful score, one of the best ever written for the musical stage. It has a sort of light intellectual jump to it, like the skittering of ideas...