Full casting announced for Menier Chocolate Factory’s revival of PACIFIC OVERTURES

The Menier Chocolate Factory have announced full casting for their co-production with the Umeda Arts Theater of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures, which plays at the venue from 25 November 2023 - 24 February 2024.

Directed by Matthew White, the cast includes Jon Chew (The Good Person of Szechwan, Lyric Hammersmith /Sheffield Theatres) as Reciter, Kanako Nakano (My Neighbour Totoro, RSC/Barbican) as Tamate, Saori Oda (The Phantom of the Opera, West End) as Shogun/Madam, Takuro Ohno (UK stage debut) as Kayama, and Joaquin Pedro Valdes (Death Note, London Palladium) as Manjiro.

Completing the cast are Luoran Ding, Masashi Fujimoto, Rachel Hayne Picar, Eu Jin Hwang, Abel Law, Ethan Le Phong, JoJo Meredith, Patrick Munday, Sario Solomon, Joy Tan, Lee V G, and Iverson Yabut.

Nippon. The Floating Kingdom. One of Stephen Sondheim’s most ambitious creations. The story of the arrival of the West in 1853 in isolated Japan is seen from a western perspective but played in an eastern style. The score is filled with some of Sondheim’s most ravishing music, including ‘Someone in a Tree’, ‘Pretty Lady’, and ‘A Bowler Hat’.

The production features set design by Paul Farnsworth, costumes by Ayako Maeda, sound by Gregory Clarke, choreography by Ashley Nottingham, musical supervision by Catherine Jayes, musical direction by Paul Bogaev, and orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.

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