Pacific Overtures

Staff

... Conductor

Paul Gemignani

Cast

... Reciter	Mako
... Abe (First Councillor)	Yuki Shimoda
... Manjiro	Sab Shimono
... Second Councillor	James Dybas
... Shogun's Mother	Alvin Ing
... Third Councillor	Freddy Mao
... Kayama	Isao Sato
... Tamate (Kayama's Wife)/Samurai (with a mask)/Storyteller/Swordsman	Soon-Teck Oh
... Samurai	Ernest Abuba Mark Hsu Syers
... Servant	Haruki Fujimoto
... Observers	Alvin Ing Ricardo Tobia
... Fisherman	Jae Woo Lee
... Merchant	Alvin Ing
... Son	Timm Fujii
... Grandmother	Conrad Yama
... Thief	Mark Hsu Syers
... Adams	Ernest Abuba
... Williams	Larry Hama
... Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry	Haruki Fujimoto
... Shogun's Wife	Freda Foh Shen
... Physician	Ernest Harada
... Priests	Timm Fujii Gedde Watanabe
... Soothsayer	Mark Hsu Syers
... Sumo Wrestlers	Conrad Yama Jae Woo Lee
... Shogun's Companion	Patrick Kinser-Lau
... Shogun	Mako
... Madam	Ernest Harada
... Girls	Timm Fujii Patrick Kinser-Lau Gedde Watanabe Dingo Secretario
... Old Man	James Dybas
... Boy	Gedde Watanabe
... Warrior	Mark Hsu Syers
... Imperial Priest	Tom Matsusaka
... Nobles	Ernest Abuba Timm Fujii
... American Admiral	Alvin Ing
... British Admiral	Ernest Harada
... Dutch Admiral	Patrick Kinser-Lau
... Russian Admiral	Mark Hsu Syers
... French Admiral	James Dybas
... Lords of the South	Larry Hama Jae Woo Lee
... Jonathan Goble	Mako
... Japanese Merchant	Conrad Yama
... Samurai's Daughter	Freddy Mao
... British Sailors	Timm Fujii Patrick Kinser-Lau Mark Hsu Syers
... Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople	Susan Kikuchi Diane Lam Kim Miyori Freda Foh Shen Kenneth S. Eiland Timm Fujii Joey Ginza Patrick Kinser-Lau Richard Magpiong Tony Marinyo Kevin Maung Dingo Secretario Mark Hsu Syers Ricardo Tobia Gedde Watanabe
... Musician (Shamisen)	Fusako Yoshida
... Musician (Percussion)	Genji Ito

Tracks

Filmed at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. Two performances were filmed — the matinee and evening performances on June 9, 1976 — and were edited together for the version that was broadcast.

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Originally shown in Japan in a version edited to 120 minutes.

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This video is in the collections of the Paley Media Center (both the New York and Los Angeles branches) and the Library for the Performing Arts in New York.

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For unknown reasons, at this performance Mako performed the slightly abridged version of the opening speech (prior to "The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea") that is heard on the original cast recording. In the production, he usually did the longer version of the speech (as it appears in the published script).