Pacific Overtures Libretti biographyExploring the opening up of Japan to American influence and using motifs from Japanese theatre and music this is one of Sondheim's most adventurous musicals. In 1852 Commodore Matthew Perry and four American warships arrived in Japan and the Floating Kingdom was never the same again. Borrowing liberally from the techniques of Kabuki Theatre Sondheim's musical explores the state of Japan before and after this enforced 'opening up' by the West.
Darn That Dream - Performer: Frank Sinatra - Composer: De Lange and Van Heusen - Lyrics Included - Key: Cbr /br23
9 I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair 4:01
And This Is My Beloved - Composer: Richard Wright and George Forrest - From: Musical "Kismet" - Lyrics Included - Key: Fbr /br9
The story follows Stein a fiction writer in Hollywood trying to adapt his own detective novel into a screenplay
The entire population numbers no more people than are to be found in the average operatic society and they sing all day for they are happy folk
Introduction by Gregory Maguire whoseWWWW 1995 novel 'Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' created "one of the great heroines of fantasy literature" (Los Angeles Times) explaining how a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba became 'wicked' but her unlikely friend Glinda became 'good'
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Performer: Frank Sinatra - Composer: Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson - Lyrics Included - Key: B Flatbr /br6
16 You've Got To Be Carefully Taught 2:16
It explains how the storied Broadway tradition in many cases went so very wrong
' The Times
We get to see director Susan Stroman coaching and Mel Brooks laughing (or not) at Denman's comic turns
Suskin has compiled and annotated long-forgotten first-person accounts of 25 Broadway musicals that stubbornly went awry
