Pacific Overtures - 1976 - US Tour Articles Page 13

Florence Klotz, six-time Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated costume designer, died Wednesday, November 1, at her home in Manhattan

Mako, who earned a Tony Award nomination for creating the role of the Reciter in the original production of Pacific Overtures and who was also an Academy Award nominee, has died at the age of 72

A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, proudly announces the 2006 cast.

The original stars of Side By Side By Sondheim--Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan and Ned Sherrin--will reunite for a charity benefit concert of the revue on May 21st at the Novello Theatre in London

A Highlights CD of 17 tracks from last year's popular Wall to Wall Sondheim concert can now be pre-ordered online

PS Classics will record the cast album of the new Broadway production of PACIFIC OVERTURES on February 1, and anticipates a May release. The production, presented by Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) in association with Gorgeous Entertainment (Kumiko Yoshii & Michael Wolk, Producers), began performances at Studio 54 on November 12, 2004, and plays through January 30, 2005.

Nearly 100 years before Pacific Overtures premiered on Broadway, an operetta was inspired by Japanese relations with the west