Takarazuka Revue's stage play based on Mori Ougai's short story The Dancing Girl.
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The play begins with the Fronde against Cardinal Mazarin. Young Louis is the consecrated King at Reims. But his power has been confiscated by his mother, Anne of Austria, and the Cardinal, who doubt his ability to rule France alone....
Refinement with grace. Boldness with passion. A fantasia woven together by a reborn Flower Troupe led by Rio Asumi. This Revue Roman unfolds with a beat that is at times classical and at times contemporary, embedded with tradition spun from the Takarazuka Revue’s 100 years of history with time-honored Japanese beauty.
During the course of an investigation, private detective Caleb Hunt visits a studio where he witnesses an accident resulting in the death of an actress.
"Liang Wenxiu, you will be allowed to enter the Forbidden City when you grow up and will eventually become the emperor’s trusted confidant in running the country. You are destined to engage in learning, spread knowledge, and support the emperor." ── The story starts in Hebei, China, during the end of the Qing dynasty in the late 19th century.
Asumi Rio's first dinner show
Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe 2016 production of the Viennese musical Elisabeth. A performance commemorating the 20th anniversary of the musical's Japanese premiere.
A special concert for Elisabeth.
The setting is the beginning of the 20th century, a time of fierce competition for building passenger ships that could cross the Atlantic. From a young age, Thomas Andrews has always dreamed of building big ships. Joining the company Harland and Wolff, his appreciation for the trade deepens as he passionately becomes involved in ship building.
“GUYS AND DOLLS,” one of Broadway’s most popular and cheerful musical comedies, continues to enchant audiences around the world. Premiering on Broadway in 1950 and running for an impressive 1,200 performances, this masterpiece of a musical comedy has seen countless revivals across the globe and continues to be loved by audiences to this day. The Takarazuka Revue first staged it in 1984, with Moon Troupe’s Mao Daichi and Hitomi Kuroki in the lead. It was revived in 2002 by Moon Troupe, starring Jun Shibuki and Kurara Emi, and again by Star Troupe in 2015 with Kairi Hokusho and Fu Hinami in the lead roles, all of which earned great acclaim. This beloved musical, packed with exhilarating numbers, is brought to life by Moon Troupe, led by An Hozuki and Juri Amashi, with a new script, translated lyrics, and direction for the 2025 production.
Takarazuka Revue Musical based on the Japanese manga Alexander the Great -Kingdom of Heaven- by Akaishi Michiyo
This is the last performance at Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, also the Last Stage of Takarazuka Revue Snow Troupe Top Star Futo Nozomi who will withdraw from Takarazuka Revue. Don’t miss the stage that full of charm of Top Star Futo Nozomi who led the snow Troupe with the overwhelming singing power and performance power that moved the audience. This is also the last stage of Top Musume-yaku, Kiho Maaya. The combination of Top Star that shines on the stage with unprecedented singing voice and superb acting skills, is integrated in this Last Day. We will live broadcast not only the performance, but also the SAYONARA Show and the speech of leaving members. Please enjoy the Last Day of Snow Troupe Top Star, Futo Nozomi, in the nearby movie theater.
In January 2009, the Korean historical fantasy/drama The Legend, featuring Bae Yong Joon, having been turned into a Takarazuka-style musical by playwright and director Koike Shuuichirou, was performed by Flower Troupe and attracted a lot of attention. The story takes place at the time when the protagonist became the king of Gouryeo, which existed on the Korean Peninsula from the era before Christ until the 7th century. It tells of a repeating fate and agonizing love that has lived on for thousands of years. This time, it will be brought to the stage in a new version by a new Star Troupe led by Yuzuki Reon.
A musical depicting legendary gifted ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky through half of his lifetime. Romola is his wife and the love of his life; Diaghilev, the leader of the Russian ballet company "Ballets Russes", is antagonistic toward him. Set in the beginning of the 20th century in Paris — the era known as les années folles ("the roaring twenties") — a dramatic portrayal of the glory and ruin brought about by one man's overabundance of beauty and talent.
Otozuki Kei's dinner show.
2014 Takarazuka Revue Star Troupe production. This is the story of a hero, a man who rescued France from the chaos of revolution. His name was Napoléon Bonaparte. Having climbed to unparalleled heights after conquering Europe and becoming the first Emperor in the history of France, what was this hero seeking? Whom did he love? The truth behind this man who led such a turbulent life is about to unfold.
Set in Marseille in the early 1930s, this musical depicts a love affair between a dashing man with a plan to smuggle fine wine to Prohibition-era America and an innocent woman who strives to clean up Marseilles, and eventually becomes involved in a counterfeit money case.
Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe's play.
Takarazuka Revue Flower Troupe's play based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos.
In Portuguese, SAUDADE means nostalgia, grief, or longing. Thinking wistfully of one's distant home or of loved ones far away, or yearning for a youth that can never be recaptured. Sorrow, agony, bitterness, love, beauty, radiance. Sometimes a sharp pain within one's heart. Sometimes one should aim at the light that will lead one into the future. In the outskirts of this world, surrounded by strangers, a lone man feels SAUDADE. These mindscapes blend with elements of poetic scenery, and singing and dancing to a variety of music, to display the charm of Sena Jun: the noble-mindedness of proud solitude, tender kindness, and sometimes a brief glimpse of forlorn fragility, in contrast to which her vigorous strength and dynamism overflows even more vividly.
Asumi Rio second dinner show
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his Yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wings of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.
All-stars from previous installments convene in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives forever.
After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.
Rei is a college student in the midst of finding a job. She confesses her love to Mikio, a senior whom she admires. Mikio soon demands that she perform perverted acts.
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.
Two dancers, opposites in all but their art, agree to train together for a competition. At first, they clash, but soon become drawn to each other.
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully joins him.
When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there in order to attend her wedding. Naoko surprises him by proposing that they have sex again. The one night stand is the new beginning.
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip-hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their larger-than-life concerts propel them to stardom in 14th century Japan.