masahi: (Flower Troupe - Hanagumi)
I can't say I was wholly surprised by the news that Matobu Sei will retire in 2011. I think many of us saw it coming. She became Top Star a year after Mizu, and she's leaving less than a year after Mizu did. I'll miss her, because she was such a charming, dotty and fun Top Star. I count it a privelege I was able to see her at her comedic best in Me and My Girl when I was in Osaka last year.

I don't see this as the end of her career, though. She loves performing far too much to stop :) And how she's grown since she was a Hoshi baby under Mariko so many years ago. Good luck to her.
masahi: (Yuzuki Reon)
Hoshigumi's 2001 Rose of Versailles shinko. Yuu as Oscar. 2-ken Baby!Chie as Andre. Baby!Chie when she still occasionally lapsed into girl voice. Yuu as the girliest Oscar I've ever seen. My brain! It is broken!

(Incidentally, the people who were surprised when Chie was officially nibanted to Touko - WHY were they surprised? Nibante role in her second year shinko and 5 shinko leads in total + 5 main show leads as well? And her doing all Touko's dancing for her? How could they not see it coming?)
masahi: (Star Troupe - Hoshigumi)
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.
masahi: (Star Troupe - Hoshigumi)
Summary: Elisabeth is the Gothic musical about the love story between Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Death. It follows her life, as an unhappy Empress through until her assassination in 1898, and Death following her steps. (In case you didn't realise this was my favourite :D)

Elisabeth - Star Troupe 1996/7 )
masahi: (Star Troupe - Hoshigumi)
Summary: Don Lockwood and Lina Linton are darlings of the Silver Screen and the gossip columns. In reality, he's a cocky playboy and she's a selfish Diva who is still convinced by what she reads about their romance in the tabloids. Both of them find their lives thrown into disarray by the arrival of the Talkies.

Singin' in the Rain - Star Troupe 2003 )
masahi: (Flower Troupe - Hanagumi)
Summary: The long-lost heir to the Earldom of Hareford is revealed as none other than a cockney lad called Bill Snibson from Lambeth. The catch is that the heir must earn the approval of a Duchess and Sir John Tremayne, which he isn't keen to do. To add to the concerns of the aristocracy, he's brought his girlfriend, Sally Smith, from Lambeth. Despite their protests, he's determined it's going to be him and his girl, whether he's an Earl or just a Lambeth boy.

Me and My Girl - Flower Troupe 2009 )
masahi: (Star Troupe - Hoshigumi)
Summary: Loosely based on the comedy of errors that is Twelfth Night, Epiphany is a piece of meta-comedy-drama, which looks back at the roots of co-ed theatre in Japan, from the heart of the kabuki tradition.

Set in Meiji-era Japan, the story follows Raikoya Otoka who, when her brother runs away from his familial responsibilities and the opportunity to join the Enoza kabuki theatre, decides to take his place until his return.

With all the confusion, Otaka finds herself in a muddle of a love-triangle with Iriya, master of the Enouza, who is in love with his former tutor's daughter, Mari, who in turn falls in love with the person everyone assumes is Takagoro.

There is also the subplot of Mari's father's love affair in Europe, the influence that still has on him and the way it changes Japanese theatre. There is a more detailed summary here.

Epiphany - Star Troupe 1999 )

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