Archives for July 5, 2017

A complete performance of the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, directed by Harold Prince and designed by Boris Aronson. The book is by John Weidman. This performance was taped at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre on June 9, 1976, and was telecast on Japanese TV:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“All that I grasped was that to repeat what everybody else was thinking was, in politics, the mark not of an inferior but of a superior mind.”

Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove (trans. Charles Scott Moncrieff)