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Pacific Overtures

Musical

Writers: John Weidman Hugh Wheeler Stephen Sondheim

Songs

ACT ONE

  • Prologue â€� Orchestra
  • The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea â€� Reciter and Company
  • There Is No Other Way â€� Tamate, Observers
  • Four Black Dragons â€� Fisherman, Thief, Reciter, Townspeople
  • Chrysanthemum Tea â€� Shogun, Shogun's Mother, Shogun's Wife, Soothsayer, Priests, Shogun's Companion, Physician, Sumo Wrestlers
  • Poems â€� Kayama, Manjiro
  • Welcome to Kanagawa â€� Madam and Girls
  • March to the Treaty House â€� Orchestra
  • Someone in a Tree â€� Old Man, Reciter, Boy, Warrior
  • * Lion Dance â€� Commodore Perry

ACT TWO

  • Please Hello â€� Abe, Reciter, American, British, Dutch, Russian and French Admirals)
  • A Bowler Hat â€� Kayama
  • Pretty Lady â€� Three British Sailors
  • Next â€� Reciter and Company

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.


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