Someone In A Tree Ft. Gedde Watanabe as Old Man | EWP 2024 Season Preview Event
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This weekend at our season preview event, we were gifted with a very special performance of Someone in the Tree where Gedde Watanabe, who originated the role of “Boy” in the Broadway Production, performed the role of Old Man for the first time. You can also see Marc Macalintal our Musical Director, Karen Huie as the Reciter, CJ Cruz as the Boy, and Jeff Lorenz Garrido as the Warrior!
I also wanna send an extra thank you to all of you who joined us on Sunday! It’s such a joy to be in community with you and I can’t wait to see you at our shows this year :D
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Pacific Overtures 🌊🗾⚓
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Additional Material by Hugh Wheeler
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Original Broadway Production Directed by Harold Prince & Produced by Harold Prince in Association with Ruth Mitchell
1853, and it’s the end of the world. Commodore Matthew C. Perry intends to open the gates of isolationist Japan. When Samurai Kayama and America-loving fisherman Manjiro are tasked with meeting the American gunboat docked on the coast of Kanagawa, little could they know that they would irreversibly change the “Floating Kingdom.”
East West Players previously produced Pacific Overtures in 1979 with EWP founding Artistic Director Mako reprising his Tony-nominated performance as The Reciter. The musical was again produced by EWP in 1998 as the David Henry Hwang Theater’s inaugural performance. Supported in part by the David Lee Foundation.
PACIFIC OVERTURES is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. mtishows.com