John Weidman News

Nearly 100 years before Pacific Overtures premiered on Broadway, an operetta was inspired by Japanese relations with the west

B.D. Wong, currently starring on Broadway in Pacific Overtures, will visit NBC's 'Weekend Today' on Saturday, December 2nd during the 7:30 - 8:00 AM half hour on channel 4.

Roundabout's latest offering, Sondheim's Pacific Overture opens tomorrow, Thursday December 2nd.

B.D. Wong, currently starring on Broadway in Pacific Overtures, is featured in Advocate Magazine - on stands now!

Previews begin on Friday for Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Gorgeous Entertainment (Kumiko Yoshii & Michael Wolk, Producers), new Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's and John Weidman's Tony Award-winning musical PACIFIC OVERTURES. PACIFIC OVERTURES stars B.D. Wong as 'Reciter', with direction and choreography by Amon Miyamoto, additional material by Hugh Wheeler and music direction by Paul Gemignani. PACIFIC OVERTURES will open officially on Thursday, December 2nd, 2004 on Broadway at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street). This is a limited engagement through January 30th, 2005.

On Monday, November 1, the Japan Society presented the lecture Pacific Overtures: An Evening with Amon Miyamoto, Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman. The lecture was moderated by New York Times writer Stephen Holden.

NEXT Magazine sponsored an exclusive post-show party for the Roundabout Theatre Company 'Gay & Lesbian Series' with Assassins.

PS Classics has announced plans to record the cast album of Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical drama finally arrives on Broadway. Ironically, the two-year delay of the Roundabout's revival of Assassins might have been the best thing for the show. Fractured though political thought has always been, the recent political dilemmas and scandals have created deep schisms in the American psyche, with violently passionate emotions on each side.

Sondheim, Prince announce newly revised version of Bounce, with assistance from Andrew Lloyd Webber, to premiere May 9

Everything old is new again, as Stephen Sondheim serves up an old-fashioned musical comedy, currently at the Kennedy Center in Washington