Pacific Overtures · Musical
Songs in Pacific Overtures
This page features the songs from Pacific Overtures. Song cards link to details such as style, context, vocal notes, and audition cut suggestions when available. Explore the list below to access song guides.
ACT ONE
- Prologue — Orchestra
- The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea — Reciter and Company
- There Is No Other Way — Tamate, Observers
- Four Black Dragons — Fisherman, Thief, Reciter, Townspeople
- Chrysanthemum Tea — Shogun, Shogun's Mother, Shogun's Wife, Soothsayer, Priests, Shogun's Companion, Physician, Sumo Wrestlers
- Poems — Kayama, Manjiro
- Welcome to Kanagawa — Madam and Girls
- March to the Treaty House — Orchestra
- Someone in a Tree — Old Man, Reciter, Boy, Warrior
- * Lion Dance — Commodore Perry
ACT TWO
- Please Hello — Abe, Reciter, American, British, Dutch, Russian and French Admirals)
- A Bowler Hat — Kayama
- Pretty Lady — Three British Sailors
- Next — Reciter and Company
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number.