Amon Miyamoto is recognized as Japan’s foremost director of musicals, and with his staging of PACIFIC OVERTURES, he has won great acclaim in the West as well. Currently, Miyamoto is developing projects for the stage in America and England as well as Japan.

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In November 2000, Stephen Sondheim and book writer John Weidman attended a performance of PACIFIC OVERTURES at Tokyo's New National Theater. What they saw stunned and delighted them: director Amon Miyamoto had boldly re-envisioned their musical from the Japanese point of view, giving it an energy and eloquence unmatched by any prior production. Sondheim and Weidman's praise for Miyamoto's staging helped secure invitations for the Japanese-language production to be part of the Lincoln Center Festival and the "Sondheim Celebration" at The Kennedy Center in 2002. Critics in both New York and Washington, D.C. raved. In the fall of 2004, the Roundabout Theatre in association with Gorgeous Entertainment presented the first English-language version of Amon Miyamoto's dazzling production on Broadway.

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“Marvelous!  The musical numbers are extraordinarily beautiful”
Clive Barnes, New York Post

“Gorgeous! Sondheim’s score sounds as gloriously fresh as ever!”
David Cote, Time Out New York

“One of the most entrancingly beautiful shows ever to come to Broadway!”
Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

PRAISE FOR THE JAPANESE-LANGUAGE PRODUCTION

"Directed with bountiful verve and imagination by Amon Miyamoto…. Mr. Miyamato and company have bestowed a great gift upon New York: a chance to see muscle-flexing Americans as aliens at a moment when it is especially crucial for the United States to understand how it is perceived internationally."
The New York Times

"The New National Theatre, Tokyo's, enthralling "Pacific Overtures" is the most moving and accessible production you're likely to encounter of Stephen Sondheim's worldly musical…. Who knew our most sophisticated theater composer would find such seminal treatment in such unlikely hands?"
The Washington Post