Gedde watanabe biography of abraham
Bumped into Gedde Watanabe..
There are a lot of reasons Pacific Overtures doesn’t get performed much—the majority of the show is done Kabuki style, for instance, in the sense that all roles are done by men until the second half of the last song, which adds women.
But in its Broadway premiere in 1976, one of those men was Gedde Watanabe. In fact, he performed Sondheim’s own favourite song of all the ones he’s written, “Someone in a Tree.” Over thirty years later, his singing voice would be done by someone else in Mulan—possibly the only time it’s been done because someone’s voice was too good!
Gedde Watanabe says he wants to perform roles that aren’t just Asian, roles that could be written for someone of any ethnicity.
A darkly comic Tony-award winner that examines the motives of the nine notorious Americans who took their shot at the President of the United.
However, that’s basically just not what he’s been provided with over his career. He doesn’t even speak Japanese; his audition for Long Duk Dong was an imitation of a Korean roommate. An examination of his career shows a majorit