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Summary: Mikhail and Tatiana have a Past. When they were younger, the two ballet stars tried to break through the Iron Curtain. Tatiana succeeded. Mikhail failed. 10 years later, she returns to Moscow with her husband, who is seeking religious icons. However, it transpires the reason for this modest collecting is far more sinister, and Tatiana and Mikhail soon find themselves up to their necks in trouble from ex-ballet-teachers (yes, really) and a cult known as Lucifer.

( Lure of the Icon - Star Troupe 1998 )

So, yes. I have a new show to add to my top five. Will have to shuffle them around, but I will fit it, somehow.

Summary: During the Bafuku period, Princess Kazu, half-sister of Emperor Koumei, is sent - to her distress - to marry the young Shogun, Iemochi Tokugawa. She is accompanied by Hashimoto Saneyana, a childhood friend of Kazu and the envoy of the Emperor, who is as grieved as she by the decision. It is expected to unite the two houses as the Tokugawa power wanes, but with Iemochi's death, matters change. Hashimoto is reunited with her during the surrender of Edo Castle.

(This is a loose estimate, I'm afraid)

( Vanished in the Musahino Dew - Star Troupe 1997 )

Summary: An adaptation of Frank Wildhorn's musical and based on the novels by Baroness Orczy. Sir Percy Blakeney is a British aristocrat secretly working under the alias of The Scarlet Pimpernel to save aristocrats from the guillotine during the French revolution with his band of men. Chauvelin, Robespierre's aide, is determined to bring him down with the help of Percy's own French wife, Marguerite St. Just, no matter how unwilling she is.

( The Scarlet Pimpernel - Star Troupe 2008 )