Now on sale, the New Broadway Cast Recording of Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman's Pacific Overtures. 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 played through January 30, 2005.
The 18-track CD clocks in at 79 minutes and 22 seconds, and includes a bonus track from a reading of the original production, in which Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince perform a cut song called "Prayers."
Spanning 150 years, the Tony Award-winning Pacific Overtures tells the story of Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in the "Floating Kingdom" of Nippon in 1853. B.D. Wong stars, along with Eric Bondoc, Michael J. Bulatao, Evan D'Angeles, Rick Edinger, Joseph Anthony Foronda, Yoko Fumoto, Alvin Y. F. Ing, Fred Isozaki, Francis Jue, Darren Lee, Michael K. Lee, Ming Lee, Telly Leung, Orville Mendoza, Paolo Montalban, Alan Muraoka, Mayumi Omagari, Daniel Jay Park, Hazel Anne Raymundo, Sab Shimono, Yuka Takara, Kim Varhola and Scott Watanabe.
Track Listing:
1. Prologue
2. The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea
3. "Kayama Yesaemon. A samurai, but one of little consequence."
4. There Is No Other Way
5. Four Black Dragons
6. "Disaster! The Americans insist upon landing."
7. Chrysanthemum Tea
8. "My Lord Governor of Uraga..."
9. Poems
10. Welcome to Kanagawa
11. March to the Treaty House
12. Someone in a Tree
13. "Whatever happened inside the treaty house..."
14. Please Hello
15. A Bowler Hat
16. Pretty Lady
17. Next
18. bonus track: Prayers
B. D. Wong in Pacific Overtures.