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OG CHICAGO @ Lincoln Center Koch Theater July 22-25, 2016 Cast: Hatsukaze Jun, Mine Saori, Isono Chihiro, Mori Keaki, Asaji Saki, Shizuki Asato, Wao Youka, Kozuki Wataru, Hoshina Yuri, Asami Hikaru, Mizu Natsuki, Yamato Yuuga, Suzu Haruki, Makise Kai, Maishiro Nodoka, Manami Sora, Otohana Yuri,…
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1789 SUBBED STREAM
I would like to cordially invite all of you to watch the freshly (re-)subbed (and hopefully slightly improved) version of Takarazuka’s adaptation of『1789 Les Amants de la Bastille』with me on this coming Saturday (30th)!
The provisional start is 9:30 PM Japan time (you can convert to your time zone here) but I can be flexible if you want to watch it but wouldn’t be able to make it this time. (If people are interested but cannot make it this time for any reason, I am also happy to do another stream with a 6 AM Japan time start the week after, or something along those lines!)
I haven’t yet made my mind up about where to host the stream - but I will post a link on the day.
(I am going to re-upload the finished subtitles soon as well, but I will make a separate post for it.)
CHICAGO ~ Lincoln Center 2016
Firstly, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who cheered the theater down, who came to the fan brunch, and who helped me get through the party after I hurt myself… I sprained my ankle at the second show and thereafter was not nearly as mobile and social as I’d hoped to be. Sorry if missed you!
Despite the unwanted trip to urgent care, it was still one of the best weeks of my life. Months of planning and stress and nerves paid off in six incredible shows and a precious precious handful of fan moments I’d have previously thought impossible. Once upon a time I saw Chicago in Japan in 2014 and reviewed it soooo I’ll kind of build on that. Day by day report follows!
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Thank you so much for the report, and I hope your foot gets better soon! (Although that sounded like something out of a romcom in parts ;) ) I am happy that it all turned out so well, and the brunch with all the fans sounded super awesome, so thank you for organizing all that. (With all the positive parts, some things were just so no.... I’m gonna need to write some cheer up cards.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr8fHkZkMtM
Can someone tell me who/what performance I’m listening to because I don’t know but honestly I AM WEAK omg….
gotta get my life together and get on these names…because ughghhhhhh
Rei Makoto and Hinami Fuu, if I am not completely mistaken, and was on a CD called ‘Takarazuka plays Disney’. (Hoshigumi fandom, if this is wrong, tell me.)
More zuka questions :D Can anyone tell me how early you would recommend being at the theatre in Tokyo for same day tickets if it’s for a single show day (a show at 13.30)?
That unfortunately depends on how popular the show ist. The tickets go on sale officially at 9:30 in Takarazuka, and 10:00 in Tokyo. However, if it’s a show as popular as Elisabeth for example, people will be lined up there by 6 in morning (or earlier). If it’s a regular, not sold out show though, maybe even on a weekday, you can probably show up at 9 and stillt get a ticket.
WE JUST GOT BACK FROM THE TAKARAZUKA REVUE’S RENDITION OF CHICAGO AT LINCOLN CENTER
cried pretty much immediately! just something about seeing all those bodies moving for All That Jazz and knowing they were all hot ladies made my poor queer body pre-emptively descend into fits
they’re here for six shows only, and the roles of velma, roxie, and billy flynn were held for three actors each. interestingly! velma and roxie’s six actors were all those who typically perform male roles (as were billy’s, less surprisingly).
WE GOT YAMATO YUUGA FOR ROXIE AND I THOUGHT NICK WAS GOING TO DIE
the staging of the show was almost identical to the current version on broadway—which had left us underwhelmed last year, so there must be something about the electricity in this cast relative to the one we saw!
mary sunshine is a troublesome role bc she’s built on a transphobic punchline. we were trying to unpack whether there was a way to play the role with genderfuckery sans transphobia (as it relies on a revelation of ‘the real’ underlying an assumption of ‘the fake’, which. :\) but could only really settle on ‘if she were wearing the same sort of racy/lacy get-up beneath her robes.’
anyway, nick felt the blow landed more softly this time, as the last time we saw the show, it felt like a slap in the face, a moment where she’d been invited to a joke she wanted no part of, but this time it felt more like something the actor was ‘in on’—tomotaka okamoto is famous for his work as a sopranista, and carried himself with flair on both his exit and later re-entry, when he was wearing a beautifully tailored, sumptuous ballgown. i think it was partly that she hadn’t known about the mary sunshine problem last time we saw it, so it was an ugly surprise, but it probably helped that we were watching a genderfuck extravaganza.
MY GOD, THEY DID THE REVUE FOR US AFTER. a series of songs and dances with all the sequins-and-rhinestones takarazuka SPECTACLE. this was when pure fucking delight started to course through my veins and i was laughing with joy pretty much non-stop for something like fifteen, twenty minutes.
ALSO I GOT HIGH-TENNED BY ONE OF THE PERFORMERS AS SHE DANCED DOWN THE AISLE.
i’m just going to lie here and absorb the memories
ALL OF THE ABOVE, GUYS. Yamato Yuuga is gorgeous and amazing, btw. I’m super, super lucky that I got to see her in the role and it was SO GOOD.
Chicago still kind of underwhelming for its own context, but were I a billionaire I would pay good money to see Takarazuka do like. The Phantom of the Opera with their own costuming aesthetic. The revue involved SO MUCH GLITTER.
SO MUCH.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaactually, Takarazuka has done Phantom of the Opera three times until now (2004, 2006, 2011). Not the Webber version, but the Kopit one. But maybe that is acceptable if it doesn’t cost a billion dollars then? (Only slightly less.) (All three versions got a DVD release, so no time travel needed.) Also, if you have any questions about those phantoms or anything else, feel free to ask in the tag, we’re super thrilled so many people liked the show :D
On a scale of one to glitter, what are the costumes like?
After the revue, I was retroactively disappointed that they’d stuck so close to the Broadway costuming and staging. Mama Morton in particular could have really used an injection of Takarazuka flair; it’s been a lingering disappointment to me since seeing the ‘official’ version last year that she just sort of. Stands there.
BUT!! it really is profound how much more we enjoyed this version of the show. It FELT awake and alive in the way the Broadway cast didn’t. There was so much energy and attention to little moments in the acting and so much joy in the production.
The ‘Takarazuka Encore’ was A M A Z I N G.
“My sexuality is twenty-odd incredibly attractive women wearing suits,” I tell my wife.
The costumes during the main performance are over the top, but not necessarily very sparkly. The finaly, however, is the sequin orgy we all love about Takarazuka ;) If it’s more something like in the top gif you are interested in, going for a full revue show might be better.
i just love that we stumbled over takarazuka fandom on tumblr—I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE OUT THERE, AND HERE YOU ARE, A WEALTH OF WONDERFUL KNOWLEDGE
There is quiet some of us, actually. And we love jumping people with random info ;)
WE JUST GOT BACK FROM THE TAKARAZUKA REVUE’S RENDITION OF CHICAGO AT LINCOLN CENTER
cried pretty much immediately! just something about seeing all those bodies moving for All That Jazz and knowing they were all hot ladies made my poor queer body pre-emptively descend into fits
they’re here for six shows only, and the roles of velma, roxie, and billy flynn were held for three actors each. interestingly! velma and roxie’s six actors were all those who typically perform male roles (as were billy’s, less surprisingly).
WE GOT YAMATO YUUGA FOR ROXIE AND I THOUGHT NICK WAS GOING TO DIE
the staging of the show was almost identical to the current version on broadway—which had left us underwhelmed last year, so there must be something about the electricity in this cast relative to the one we saw!
mary sunshine is a troublesome role bc she’s built on a transphobic punchline. we were trying to unpack whether there was a way to play the role with genderfuckery sans transphobia (as it relies on a revelation of ‘the real’ underlying an assumption of ‘the fake’, which. :\) but could only really settle on ‘if she were wearing the same sort of racy/lacy get-up beneath her robes.’
anyway, nick felt the blow landed more softly this time, as the last time we saw the show, it felt like a slap in the face, a moment where she’d been invited to a joke she wanted no part of, but this time it felt more like something the actor was ‘in on’—tomotaka okamoto is famous for his work as a sopranista, and carried himself with flair on both his exit and later re-entry, when he was wearing a beautifully tailored, sumptuous ballgown. i think it was partly that she hadn’t known about the mary sunshine problem last time we saw it, so it was an ugly surprise, but it probably helped that we were watching a genderfuck extravaganza.
MY GOD, THEY DID THE REVUE FOR US AFTER. a series of songs and dances with all the sequins-and-rhinestones takarazuka SPECTACLE. this was when pure fucking delight started to course through my veins and i was laughing with joy pretty much non-stop for something like fifteen, twenty minutes.
ALSO I GOT HIGH-TENNED BY ONE OF THE PERFORMERS AS SHE DANCED DOWN THE AISLE.
i’m just going to lie here and absorb the memories
ALL OF THE ABOVE, GUYS. Yamato Yuuga is gorgeous and amazing, btw. I’m super, super lucky that I got to see her in the role and it was SO GOOD.
Chicago still kind of underwhelming for its own context, but were I a billionaire I would pay good money to see Takarazuka do like. The Phantom of the Opera with their own costuming aesthetic. The revue involved SO MUCH GLITTER.
SO MUCH.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaactually, Takarazuka has done Phantom of the Opera three times until now (2004, 2006, 2011). Not the Webber version, but the Kopit one. But maybe that is acceptable if it doesn’t cost a billion dollars then? (Only slightly less.) (All three versions got a DVD release, so no time travel needed.) Also, if you have any questions about those phantoms or anything else, feel free to ask in the tag, we’re super thrilled so many people liked the show :D
On a scale of one to glitter, what are the costumes like?
After the revue, I was retroactively disappointed that they’d stuck so close to the Broadway costuming and staging. Mama Morton in particular could have really used an injection of Takarazuka flair; it’s been a lingering disappointment to me since seeing the ‘official’ version last year that she just sort of. Stands there.
BUT!! it really is profound how much more we enjoyed this version of the show. It FELT awake and alive in the way the Broadway cast didn’t. There was so much energy and attention to little moments in the acting and so much joy in the production.
The ‘Takarazuka Encore’ was A M A Z I N G.
“My sexuality is twenty-odd incredibly attractive women wearing suits,” I tell my wife.
The costumes during the main performance are over the top, but not necessarily very sparkly. The finale, however, is the sequin orgy we all love about Takarazuka ;) If it’s more something like in the top gif you are interested in, going for a full revue show might be better.
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We’ll be starting in about 45 mins.
Note: Yes, I am aware that there are ways to swipe the streamed video off of Cytube. However, please don’t be an ass and do that so you can repost the video on your favorite Takarazuka community. I will eventually see it and will then have to go back to screening participants (which sucks for everyone and I don’t really want to have to go back to doing) so please be considerate and don’t ruin it for everyone else.
Thank you.
I’m noticing lots of tentative small new Takarazuka fans blossoming in the tags, so I’ve started an introductory series called So You’re New To Takarazuka on my blog designed to help y’all get to grips with the Takarazuka fandom and get involved.
So You’re New To Takarazuka: Introduction To The Company
So You’re New To Takarazuka: Getting Started
If anybody has anything they’d like to see a post on, please drop me a message with your recommendations! I’d also love to have some other existing fans write with me if anybody fancies it. I hope this is somewhat helpful to anybody looking to start out. I’ve got a lot of posts lined up already and will be updating fairly regularly until I run out of stuff to post about.
Last Minute LiveStream
Assuming the DVD to mp4 conversions go quickly, I’m planning on LiveStreaming Hoshigumi’s Love and Dream show tonight at 11pm Japan time (so 10am EST in the US). It’s the Disney x Takarazuka revue show they did in January. Since there isn’t a plot to follow you can come and go as you please without problems if you can’t make it for the whole hting.
I’ll be using CyTube and I’ll post the link around 10:30 pm.
See ya then!
WE JUST GOT BACK FROM THE TAKARAZUKA REVUE’S RENDITION OF CHICAGO AT LINCOLN CENTER
cried pretty much immediately! just something about seeing all those bodies moving for All That Jazz and knowing they were all hot ladies made my poor queer body pre-emptively descend into fits
they’re here for six shows only, and the roles of velma, roxie, and billy flynn were held for three actors each. interestingly! velma and roxie’s six actors were all those who typically perform male roles (as were billy’s, less surprisingly).
WE GOT YAMATO YUUGA FOR ROXIE AND I THOUGHT NICK WAS GOING TO DIE
the staging of the show was almost identical to the current version on broadway—which had left us underwhelmed last year, so there must be something about the electricity in this cast relative to the one we saw!
mary sunshine is a troublesome role bc she’s built on a transphobic punchline. we were trying to unpack whether there was a way to play the role with genderfuckery sans transphobia (as it relies on a revelation of ‘the real’ underlying an assumption of ‘the fake’, which. :\) but could only really settle on ‘if she were wearing the same sort of racy/lacy get-up beneath her robes.’
anyway, nick felt the blow landed more softly this time, as the last time we saw the show, it felt like a slap in the face, a moment where she’d been invited to a joke she wanted no part of, but this time it felt more like something the actor was ‘in on’—tomotaka okamoto is famous for his work as a sopranista, and carried himself with flair on both his exit and later re-entry, when he was wearing a beautifully tailored, sumptuous ballgown. i think it was partly that she hadn’t known about the mary sunshine problem last time we saw it, so it was an ugly surprise, but it probably helped that we were watching a genderfuck extravaganza.
MY GOD, THEY DID THE REVUE FOR US AFTER. a series of songs and dances with all the sequins-and-rhinestones takarazuka SPECTACLE. this was when pure fucking delight started to course through my veins and i was laughing with joy pretty much non-stop for something like fifteen, twenty minutes.
ALSO I GOT HIGH-TENNED BY ONE OF THE PERFORMERS AS SHE DANCED DOWN THE AISLE.
i’m just going to lie here and absorb the memories
ALL OF THE ABOVE, GUYS. Yamato Yuuga is gorgeous and amazing, btw. I’m super, super lucky that I got to see her in the role and it was SO GOOD.
Chicago still kind of underwhelming for its own context, but were I a billionaire I would pay good money to see Takarazuka do like. The Phantom of the Opera with their own costuming aesthetic. The revue involved SO MUCH GLITTER.
SO MUCH.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaactually, Takarazuka has done Phantom of the Opera three times until now (2004, 2006, 2011). Not the Webber version, but the Kopit one. But maybe that is acceptable if it doesn’t cost a billion dollars then? (Only slightly less.) (All three versions got a DVD release, so no time travel needed.) Also, if you have any questions about those phantoms or anything else, feel free to ask in the tag, we’re super thrilled so many people liked the show :D
everybody else’s fave og: ah yes i am active all the time and i have instagram and i am constantly in things and doing stuff and wow look how busy i am and here is a selfie every day and it’s like i never retired at all because you can still see me all the time whenever you want!!
my fave og: i live in a swamp with no wi fi and i spend my days lying perfectly still and being invisible for i no longer exist and you will never see new content featuring me ever again bye
Alternatively: Your favorite OG: Here is a picture of my cat. And another picture. And hey, how about I do three things at once so you can cry about missing all of them? Also what is this ‘recording’ thing you speak of?
lol mine figured out that all of us defected to Hoshigumi fan clubs after she retired and now makes sure she has an OG show lined up to conflict with EVERY. SINGLE. Hoshigumi show from now until 2020 in order to masochistically enjoy watching us try to chose between her and them.
That is pretty creative though, props for that. (I love her blog btw ;) )
帝国劇場 ミュージカル『エリザベート』2016年6月28日～7月26日上演決定！
Guys! We are FINALLY getting a DVD for Toho’s Elisabeth. The good news is, there are two versions (white and black). The bad news, none of those versions includes Ranno Hana as Elisabeth, both will have Hanafusa Mari as Elisabeth, Ranno Hana will have three songs on the incuded Bonus Disc. Except for Elisabeth, White and Black will have alternate casts. Bonus Content is -Interview Hanafusa Mari/ Shirota Yuu (White version) -Interview Hanafusa Mari / Yoshio Inoue (Black version) -Cast Comments -Interview with Koike Shuichiro -Promotional Video for Elisabeth Bonus Songs are: Watashi Dake Ni (Ich gehör nur mir) Watashi Ga Odoru Toki (Wenn ich tanzen will) Yoru no Booto (Boote in der Nacht) Price is 12.000 Yen
(And WHAT did posess you guys to give us a COMPLETELY ALTERNATE VERSION AND LEAVE OUT RANCHAN! WHAT! FIRST KANAME IN 1789 NOW THIS?!)
everybody else’s fave og: ah yes i am active all the time and i have instagram and i am constantly in things and doing stuff and wow look how busy i am and here is a selfie every day and it’s like i never retired at all because you can still see me all the time whenever you want!!
my fave og: i live in a swamp with no wi fi and i spend my days lying perfectly still and being invisible for i no longer exist and you will never see new content featuring me ever again bye
Alternatively: Your favorite OG: Here is a picture of my cat. And another picture. And hey, how about I do three things at once so you can cry about missing all of them? Also what is this ‘recording’ thing you speak of?
@ any of my followers who happen to be new zuka fans
srsly message me whenever if you have a question about zuka/siennes/shows/anything, I remember what it was like to be new to zuka so I will do my utter best to explain anything (it can be a pretty confusing fandom to get started on)
and if you catch me at the right time i might randomly start streaming >:D i am always looking for an excuse to show people my favorite crack shows…
SORAGUMI ELISABETH WAS ONE OF THE BEST EXPERIENCE I’VE HAD SINCE COMING TO JAPAN @SORAGUMI AND MAAKUN FANS I NEVER TRULY UNDERSTOOD YOU BUT NOW I DO OH BOY DO I
COME TO THE DARK SIDE WE HAVE COOKIES! (And Femme!Tod, okay?)
DON’T DO THIS TO ME I’M SCREWED UP ENOUGH THE WAY I AM
(no no okay but listen to me just listen ok she is a butch lesbian Tod. Like. She is.)
But look at how awesome this completely random troupe can be, look at our glorious Kumichou alone! (I am SO DOWN for Femme!Tod. Always.)
