Note the fake "gaijin" noses on the nearly all Chinese cast.
Miyamoto makes Broadway debut(Kyodo) - Nov 13, 11:13 am
Amon Miyamoto has become the first Japanese producer to make a foray into a Broadway musical with the New York launch of the preview of "Pacific Overtures" Friday night.
Genuinely Ugly Americans, as Viewed by the Japanese
NYTimes: July 11, 2002
The coming of Commodore Perry and his troops to the shores of Japan has always been a showstopper in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's fable of gunboat diplomacy and cultural transformation. Those who saw the original Broadway production still marvel at the immense paper dragon of a ship created by the fabled designer Boris Aronson.
But Mr. Miyamoto and company have devised their own highly original coup de theatre for the occasion, and it, too, is sure to linger in the memory. The ships are seen only as fleeting, ambiguous shadows. But the Americans, whose grotesquely stylized appearances here were inspired by 19th-century Japanese poster art, are canopied by a vast American flag that shoots across the theater's ceiling amid a flash of eye-searing light.
キャスト Cast
B. D. Wong Reciter ＜語り＞
Michael K. Lee Kayama ＜香山＞
Paolo Montalban Manjiro ＜万次郎＞
Joseph Anthony Foronda Thief Councilor ＜首席老中＞ ・ Ming Lee Second Councillor ＜次席老中＞
Yoko Fumoto Tamate(Kayama's Wife)
Alvin Ing Old Man・Priest
Francis Jue Madam・
Dutch Admiral Eric Bondoc
Evan D'Angeles Observer・Warrior
Darren Lee American Admiral・Sailor
Hoon Lee Sailor
Telly Leung Boy・Observer