Pacific Overtures at 50

50 years ago today, Pacific Overtures opened on Broadway

Fifty years ago today—January 11, 1976—Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre opened its doors for the first performance of Pacific Overtures. Outside, a bitter New York winter; inside, a company preparing to transport the audience across an ocean and back through time.

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman had crafted something audacious: a musical told through t…