In the realm of the dead, Luigi Lucheni is on trial for the assassination of Empress Elisabeth. The disembodied voice of the judge rings out, demanding to know why Lucheni killed her. Lucheni responds, in his own defense, that he was doing her a favor as Elisabeth and Death were lovers. He calls upon the ghosts of Elisabeth's family and friends to corroborate this statement. Death appears in their midst, a pale, androgynous, eternally youthful man who admits that he was in love with Elisabeth. (1996, Snow)
Rudolph (Takarazuka Cast)
Sophie
Madeleine
In the realm of the dead, Luigi Lucheni is on trial for the assassination of Empress Elisabeth. The disembodied voice of the judge rings out, demanding to know why Lucheni killed her. Lucheni responds, in his own defense, that he was doing her a favor as Elisabeth and Death were lovers. He calls upon the ghosts of Elisabeth's family and friends to corroborate this statement. Death appears in their midst, a pale, androgynous, eternally youthful man who admits that he was in love with Elisabeth. (1996, Snow)
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Rondo of Love and Death
Based on the Waki Yamato's manga version of The Tale of Genji. An all-female production starring members of the Takarazuka Revue.
A revue focused on America from the 1920s to the 1950s - good old Broadway, magnificent Follies, glorious jazz and the glimmer of Manhattan. It combines a mature flair with a fresh, vigorous spirit, and is based on the theme of America at a time when the myth of high society was still alive.
A dramatization of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart beginning from the age of 17 culminating with his death in 1791 at the age of 35. It uses both original pop-rock compositions as well as pre-existing music composed by Mozart and other composers, including Antonio Salieri. Based on the French musical "Mozart, l'opéra rock" first performed in 2009.
Takarazuka Revue's 2002 production of the Viennese musical Elisabeth. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I. This was the 4th production of Elisabeth for Takarazuka Revue and first for the Flower Troupe.
The same Captain Nemo who appeared in Jules Verne's marine science fiction novel “Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under The Sea,” this is a musical fantasy that paints a new picture of the solitary hero who dares to challenge nations seeking colonial rule with his submarine, Nautilus.
At the end of the Edo Period, there was a legendary chivalrous thief who stole from rich merchants and self-serving samurai and gave to the virtuous people of the town. His name was Nezumi-kozo (Rat Boy) Jirokichi. This musical is about how he competed with and was friends with the hero of so many period dramas (Touyama Kinshiro), and about the loves they surrounded themselves with in the new and progressive Japan. A Takarazuka take on the tale of Nezumi-kozo.
Set in a fictitious duchy in medieval France. This is the story of how the son of an earl grows up as he searches for the truth about the death of his first love. Lucian, the son of an earl, receives secret orders to look into the truth of the circumstances regarding the execution of Lady Charlotte, a noblewoman who married into a neighboring duchy. Charlotte was executed for the suspicious murder of her husband, Lord Garnier. Lucian believes that Charlotte was set up, so he goes to Lord Garnier's lands to contact his heir Emma, Garnier's daughter by his first wife. As Lucian struggles to uncover the hidden truth about Charlotte's death, will both duchies be able to evade war?
Tsukasa Hojo's original "City Hunter" is a very popular comic that started serializing in "Weekly Shonen Jump" in 1985 and has a cumulative circulation of over 50 million copies. 2020 will celebrate the 35th anniversary, and it is a work that continues to fascinate many people regardless of country or generation. The new top combination Ayakaze Sakina and Asazuki Kiwa will take on the challenge of creating the first stage version of this masterpiece hard-boiled comedy! "Fire Fever!" Is a show in which Ayakaze Sakina and other Snow Troupe members compete on the stage to scatter sparks and engulf the audience in a whirlpool of enthusiasm.
A sweeping musical adaptation of the classic Nobel Prize-winning novel about love in the final days of czarist Russia.
Takarazuka Revue’s Moon Troupe 2018 production of the Viennese musical Elisabeth. The musical tells the story of Elisabeth (“Sisi”), the Empress of Austria, from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni, through the lens of her growing obsession with death, as her marriage and her empire crumble around her at the turn of the century.
Takarazuka Star Troupe, 2015. Since Columbus had discovered the New World, the Caribbean became a part of the European history, and the pirates helped incorporate the Caribbean into the European sphere of influence with their art of navigation. One day lately in the seventeenth century, Spanish Santa Catalina Island is assaulted and its town is burnt down by the English pirates headed by Edgar. The governor and his wife are killed. However, the governor's son, Emilio, manages his escape and dives alone into the sea...
Takarazuka Star Troupe, 2015. A Musical Fable of Broadway Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon. Music and Lyrics by FRANK LOESSER Book by JO SWERLING and ABE BURROWS
The setting is Hotel Edler, a long-established four-star hotel in Vienna. Josi Edler, the heir to the family-owned hotel, has been actively involved in the hotel's management and seeks to reform the hotel to make it fit with the times, as opposed to his parents who lean towards tradition and formality. Today, Hotel Edler is preparing for the reception of a coming guest: Emma Carter, the famous Austrian-born Hollywood star, who will stay at the hotel incognito. Unfortunately, a hotel employee has already revealed the top-secret news of Emma’s arrival through social media, and it causes chaos at the hotel...
Eitoku Academy is a high school that caters to rich, high-society families. Among the students who attend there are four young men who have the adulation of the entire school, the "Flower 4" (F4). There is spoiled Doumyouji Tsukasa, cool and mysterious Hanazawa Rui, playboy Nishikado Soujirou, and "madam killer" Mimasaka Akira. If these four show any signs of disliking someone, a red tag is put on the locker of that student and they become a target of bullying for the entire school. Makino Tsukushi is from a middle-class family, attending because her parents asked her to. Her goal is to keep her head down until she can graduate, but her plans are soon made impossible as she is thrown into the world of the F4. Doumyouji falls for Tsukushi for her fierce independence and willingness to stand up to him, but Tsukushi likes the quiet Hanazawa Rui....
The musical begins mid-way through the trial of Dmitri Karamazov (Mizu Natsuki) for the murder of his father Fyodor (Mirai Yuuki). Dmitri maintains his innocence, and we are then taken back in time to see how things reached the point they are at now.
Edmond Dantes, a young sailor from Marseille, is being dragged in chains to the Chateau d'If, a state prison. He protests his innocence, but the jailors laugh and torment him before locking him up in solitary confinement. A few short hours before, Dantes had returned to Marseille from a voyage at sea and been reunited with his fiancée, Mercedes. Her father, Pierre Morrel, promoted Dantes to captain as a wedding gift to the couple. Into the middle of this celebration came the soldiers to arrest Dantes. He is sure he has done nothing that is against the law, and promises Mercedes he will return soon...
"ROME AT DAWN" is a Takarazuka adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Takarazuka Moon Troupe 2013 version of The Rose of Versailles: Oscar and Andre
Takarazuka Flower Troupe 2014 Chunichi Theater production. In 1770, Princess Marie-Antoinette of the House of Hapsburg, youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, marries at the age of fourteen, Prince Louis (future Louis XVI) of the House of Bourbon, eldest grandson of King Louis XV of France. In anxiety over some childishness still lingering in Marie-Antoinette, Empress Maria Theresa sends over to France her confidant, Count of Mercy-Argenteau, on the mission to tutor Marie-Antoinette to grow up to be a beloved queen of the French people.
A Takarazuka Revue production based on the 2016 Japanese-Taiwanese puppet drama television series.