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Cast announced for Pacific Overtures
November 02 2011
We are pleased to announce the cast list for Blackbird Theater’s production of Pacific Overtures:
| The Reciter | Travis Brazil |
| Kayama Yesaemon | Michael Slayton |
| John Manjiro | Tyson Lammael |
| Lord Abe | Chris Bosen |
| Tamate | Joann Coleman |
| The Shogun’s Mother (Chrysanthemum Tea) | Nancy Allen |
| The Madam (Welcome to Kanagawa) | Jama Bowen |
| Old Man (Someone In a Tree), Shogun’s Physician (Chrysanthemum Tea), French Admiral | Patrick Kramer |
| Thief (Four Black Dragons), Warrior (Someone In a Tree), British Sailor (Pretty Lady) | Mike Baum |
| Fisherman (Four Black Dragons), Dutch Admiral (Please Hello) | Scott Rice |
| Observor (There Is No Other Way), British Sailor (Pretty Lady), American Admiral (Please Hello) | Will Sevier |
| Boy (Someone In a Tree), Girl (Pretty Lady) | Maia Cole |
| Third Councilor, British Admiral (Please Hello), Fencing Master | Brad Oxnam |
| Observor (There Is No Other Way), Priest (Chrysanthemum Tea) | Katherine Sandoval Taylor |
| Geisha (Welcome to Kanagawa) | Sydni Hayes |
| Geisha (Welcome to Kanagawa), Priest (Chrysanthemum Tea) | Evelyn O’Neal Brush |
| Geisha (Welcome to Kanagawa), Shogun’s Wife (Chrysanthemum Tea) | Cori Lammael |
| Russian Admiral (Please Hello), Soothsayer (Chrysanthemum Tea) | Larry Brown |
| Samurai, Imperial Priest | Joshua Martin |
| Second Councilor | Brad Forrister |
| First Officer of the U.S.S. Powhatan, Lord of the South | Jeremy Maxwell |
| Second Officer of the U.S.S. Powhatan, Lord of the South | Zack McCann |
| Samurai, Shogun’s Companion (Chrysanthemum Tea), British Sailor (Pretty Lady) | Tyler Ashley |
| Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry | James Rudolph |
| Villager, Assassin | Hayden Forrister |
| Village Children (Advantages, Four Black Dragons, Next) | Addison McFarlin, Anna Beth Lasley, Tyler Bond |
Pacific Overtures – by Stephen Sondheim and James Weidman – runs February 2-18 at Lipscomb’s Shamblin Theater.
In 19th century Japan, an unlikely friendship is forged between the samurai Kayama and the Americanized fisherman Manjiro in the wake of a U.S. naval mission to secure trade relations with the reclusive nation. Kayama and Manjiro – and all of Japanese society – must face the wave of Westernization that follows.
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