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[phantomchristinesuk]

Christine in the ballet: Japan

-1- 井上ちえ (Chie Inoue) 1996

-2- 村田恵理子 (Eriko Murata) 1997

-3- 苫田亜沙子 (Asako Tomada) ? 2007-2009

-4- 土居愛実 (Manami/Megumi Doi) ? 2013

-5- 高木美果/高木美香 (Mika Takagi)* ? 2009

-6- 苫田亜沙子 (Asako Tomada) 2015-2017

-7- 海沼千明 (Chiaki Kainuma) 2020

-8- 藤原遙香 (Haruka Fujiwara) 2022

If anyone can correct or confirm the names I would be grateful as I have likely Mis-identified some of them, particularly the ones with the question marks.

*birth name 최은실 (Choi Eunsil / Eun Sil Choi)

Pictures from various souvenir brochures

[marleneoftheopera]

“...don’t think about the way things might have been...”

Because there is just something I love about photos of this particular moment, and also this line seems to hit a little deeper now with Covid and the theatre shutdowns.

Manami Doi (?), Tokyo

Sarah Brightman, Broadway

Unknown, Japan

Lauri Brons, Hamburg

Dale Kristien, Broadway/Los Angeles 

Sierra Boggess, Broadway

Ana Marina, Australia

Elizabeth Loyacano, Las Vegas

Kim So Hyun, Seoul

[phantomchristinesuk]

Today I received a Japanese 2002 brochure and soon I will have a 2010’s brochure on the way.

I will be posting some pictures from the brochures at some point in the next couple of weeks & I will try to label the Christines as best as I can.

[operafantomet]

Osamu Takai, Phantom in Japan 2001-2014

[operafantomet]

Japanese Christines in "Think of Me": 1. Asako Tomada? 2. Unknown, recent years.  3. Manami Doi,  4. Tamami Sai?  5. Unknown, Tokyo 2006. 6. Unknown, Nagoya 2010.   7. Rumi Iryo? 8. Kyoko Suzuki, 9. Ryoko (Reiko) Nomura.  

(I'm really working on labeling my Japanese photos, but it's so slow. They can have as many as six Christines and five Phantoms alternating in the roles, and they almost never label photos with names. If you know the name of any of the unknown above, I'd love to know!) 

[operafantomet]

Japan has a new Christine - Manami Doi.  Also, Japan has kept the original Elissa skirt design, with a "plain" green skirt with alternating red and green tabs. They've made the aprons more like the US skirts, so in total it's an interesting crossover costume.