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#cats musical#cats 1998#cats fanart#john partridge#tyler hanes#shiki theatre company#rum tum tugger#bombalurina#cats demeter
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JP JCS Set Designs Link
This is for the early set designs by set designer 金森 馨 Kanamori Kaoru for Gekidnashiki/Shiki Theatre Company.
Here is the archive I mentioned in a post or two prior which has stage photos, plan, section and sketches of Gekidanshiki’s first production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973. This is also the Kabuki inspired version
The Gekidanshiki’s second production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1976 also has a page on the same archive web page but in addition to photos and drawings it also has photos of the set model!!! Anyway the link for this particular version’s page is here. This could be called the first rendition of the Jerusalem version so a non-kabuki style version.
#jesus christ superstar#jcs#set design#jcs jp#gekidanshiki#劇団四季#イエス・キリスト＝スーパースター#ジーザス・クライスト＝スーパースター#shiki theatre company#shiki theatre#show rambling
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A promotional video from the Shiki Theatre Company, showing a few scenes from the show currently in Nagoya, Japan.
The video includes short parts of Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats, The Rum Tum Tugger, Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer, Growltiger's Last Stand, Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat, Macavity The Mystery Cat, Memory, and The Ad-Dressing of Cats.
#CATS Musical#CATS the Musical#CATS Nagoya 2022#CATS Japan#Shiki CATS#The clip of Griddlebone is very important to me#If anyone is wondering who is who feel free to ask
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Yokohama in costume rehearsal
The Christines have new style wigs, based on the London wigs.
I have tried to identify each Christine in the pictures, I’m 99% sure I have them correct.
1-6 - 藤原遥香 (Haruka Fujiwara)
7-13 - 海沼千明 (Chiaki Kainuma)
Pictures: Shiki Theatre Company
#phantom of the opera#phantomoftheopera#poto japan#poto Yokohama#haruka fujiwara#Chiaki Kainuma#藤原遥香#海沼千明#オペラ座の怪人#I am 99% certain on the identification except for 13#I like the new wigs#will be interesting to see how long this stays#if someone has corrections then I would be grateful for them
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Happy Holiday season! It’s the time of year for giving, which means it’s the time of year for Round 2 of giveaways!
Round 2 is another, slightly different series of goodies from the Shiki Theatre Company’s long running CATS Tour, including:
-A souvenir program from Osaka (1992)
-A souvenir program from Tokyo (2004)
-A souvenir program from Tokyo (2008)
-A “blinking” eye key chain (Which seems to still function but good to check!)
-A 2019 Volume 2 Secret Charm (Mungojerrie)
- A 2019 Volume 3 Secret Charm (Tantomile)
-A Shiki Theatre Company bear dressed as Skimbleshanks
-3 of the 6 available new 2022 Secret Charms (Jennyanydots, Tantomile and Victoria)
-A Jennyanydots sticker from the same series
RULES (Please read these carefully and follow them):
1. Entries will open today (which, as of last glance, is still December 10th here) and will close DECEMBER 17th - in one week. You can enter at any time between now and then, but anything after that date will not be counted.
2. ONE entry per person - when you reblog THIS post, you will be assigned a random number, and the receiver will be picked by a random generator. Likes do not count as entries. Multiple reblogs will not give you a higher chance - we want to make it fair for everyone. Entry doesn’t guarantee receiving, please play fair!
3. Shipping within North America will be easier for me, but I am willing to open this up to individuals overseas. HOWEVER, if you are picked and you are overseas, I would very much appreciate you going in half on any shipping/postage charges if they are ridiculous (and sometimes they are). Any import fees will most likely settle on the receiver, so please keep that in mind.
4. Obviously, you must be alright with providing me with shipping information - rest assured you will be providing me this information in confidence and I will not share it with anyone. If you are not comfortable sharing this information, that’s completely alright, but please do not enter as I won’t be able to send it to you.
A winner will be selected on December 18th and will receive a message indicating that they’re getting a present. I will try to get it shipped out to you sometime in that same week (hopefully), and give an update once that happens.
I will do my absolute best to ensure the items arrive to the winner, but once it’s handed over to the post office, it’s unfortunately out of my hands.
#CATS Musical#CATS the Musical#merchandise#i was going to split this into 2 smaller bundles but what the hay - it's the holidays so one big gift
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Happy Phantom Merch Monday everyone! ✨
Can we please all agree that Shiki Theatre Company makes the prettiest Phantom trinkets? I have a few in my collection and each one is as lovely as the last.
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an advertisement for the 1996 shiki theatre company production of cats (x)
#can i offer you this extremely blurry image of a 1996 shiki poster in these trying times#i really do love this tugger design it's so fun#okay not sure about my wording in the caption here#because this is technically the 1995-1996 run... so calling it the 1996 production is only like half true#but if i'm reading through the pixelation correctly this poster is specifically advertising a '96 show...#am i being too nitpicky? perhaps#also i found this picture on a geocities site that is extremely buggy and keeps sending me to spam pages#so if you're going to click on the source link proceed with caution lol#rum tum tugger#ensemble#shiki cats#my posts
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Question about Takarazuka productions: is this reason they've only put on Phantom and not POTO related to a) licensing costs for POTO and b) Shiki Theatre having that established history of POTO production and Takarazuka doing POTO would be a competitive/marketing issue? Would Shiki putting on their final POTO show in 2023 make the odds of a Takarazuka POTO more likely?
So full disclosure, I really don't know a lot about Takarazuka beyond a quick Google search and what people on the Internet have told me. However, while competition and licensing costs might be part of the answer, I don't think it's the whole answer. On the competition end, while there is the possibility they don't want to complete with Shiki, that hasn't stopped them with shows like Elisabeth, where they've had the Toho and Takarazuka productions both around for years, even sharing actors. And it didn't stop another company from putting on their own production of Yeston and Kopit's Phantom (the version directed by Yu Shirota). Now these might be different cases, this might be because Takarazuka has different relationships with these other companies, but still, they are counterpoints to the argument that fear of competition is the reason.
I also don't think licensing costs would be a problem, given Takarazuka's history (its over 100 years old), its prestige (it has a seriously competitive membership) and its tendency to put on very lavish shows, which they almost always professionally film and release, that often outdo the original production its adapting from. I suppose that doesn't mean that they can afford it, but again, it doesn't seem like money is the key reason here, either.
Without knowing more about Takarazuka, I can't say for certain, but at least part of me thinks that licensing is a reason, but not because of cost; it's because Takarazuka is an all-female troupe that will make changes (sometimes very heavy changes) to their shows, often to more heavily feature the otokoyaku (women who play male roles) or to make the tone more appropriate for the kinds of shows Takarazuka is known for ("pure, proper, beautiful"), and the higher-ups in charge of ALW's Phantom are very averse to that. Changes to the blocking and design, sure, but the music, lyrics, and story are basically set.
So you know, I can see how shows like Yeston and Kopit's Phantom, which is much lesser known and gives the Phantom a lot of stage time, or Elisabeth, which changes its own productions every few years, can do well with Takarazuka, but not ALW's Phantom. Imagine Takarazuka rewriting ALW's Phantom (who has maybe 40 minutes of stage time in a 2 hour show) so he gets a bunch more solos and probably also steals 50% of Christine's lines. Imagine ALW's Phantom ending with an out-of-context chorus line of all the major numbers (actually that would be pretty entertaining, even if it wildly breaks the mood of the final scene). Imagine the Phantom and Christine, or Raoul and Christine, not actually kissing! (In the Takarazuka Revue, the actresses will sort of turn their faces away during kisses because, well, they're not touching each other's lips.) Though on the other hand, imagine how pimped out they'd make the costumes, not to mention all the proshots...
Well, anyway, like I said, I know little about Takarazuka, so this is just my wild guess. I'm sure others know far more and will add their commentary here.
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Da Vinci Web "Black Museum Ghost and Lady" - A Ghost with a Difference
A new article has been published on da Vinci Web.
Review of "The Black Museum: Ghost and Lady," a manga about a woman who wants to be killed and a ghost who wants to be killed, which will be made into a musical in 2024.
I have been wanting to read "The Black Museum: Ghost and Lady" for a long time.
I am ashamed to admit that I did not even know its name when it was announced as a new musical by the Shiki Theater Company, but I was eager to read it before it was performed.
I was not aware of its name when it was announced as a new musical by the Shiki Theatre Company, but I was very eager to read it before it was performed. I was wondering why they were making a musical of this work.
And when I actually read it, I understood.
I see, it is a musical-like work! I was surprised to see that it was a musical.
One of the main characters, Ghost (a.k.a. Gray), is a ghost who haunts a theater in London. He has been watching the play for nearly 100 years. It's reminiscent of The Phantom of the Opera.
It feels like a musical at this point.
But unlike the Phantom, Gray is a haughty, talkative man.
The story was that Gray met a young nightingale and …….
I only knew Nightingale by name and a rough idea of her accomplishments, but reading this manga, I can learn about her progress along with her.
As mentioned in the comments at the end of the book, she went through a huge amount of material when writing the piece.
I understand. Because it's so rich in content: ！！！！
I don't know how much of the musical adaptation will follow the original work, but there are a few "I wish I had this scene" parts. I won't say because it would be a spoiler.
As I mentioned in the article, the strike scene is very good. It is a nice ending.
The manga is in two volumes. I think it is good to read it as a preliminary study.
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My sister and I went to see the Shiki Theatre Company's The Little Mermaid🧜🏻♀️
Ariel was so cute…! 🥰
The singing voice, the costumes, everything was lovely.😭
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ITS GETTING A STAGE ADAPTATION
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Past & Present Young Elsa & Anna around the world (as of 27/08/21)
1- Elsas of Broadway
Brooklyn Nelson
Ayla Schwartz
Mimi Ryder
Jenna Wier
Winter Donnelly
Anna Rae Haller
Suri Marrero
2- Annas of Broadway
Audrey Bennett
Mattea Conforti
Zoe Glick
Mimi Ryder (cover)
Leila Rose Gross
Fiona Morgan Quinn
Charlie Tassone
4- Elsas of Australia
Deanna Cheong Foo
Lucy Farmborough
Amelia Heaven
Sara Petrovski
Charlize Costantin
Isobel Lauber
Amya Mollison
Page Punsalang
5- Annas of Australia
Chloe Delle-Vedove
Sabrina Franco
Faith Hedley
Siena Kann
Alberta Brudan
Mila Hourmouzis
Stella Partridge
Hunter Ribeiro
5- Elsas & Annas of the US Tour
Jaiden Klein
Alyssa Kim
Natalia Artigas
Natalie Grace Chan
Arwen Monzon-Sanders
Stella R. Cobb
Olivia Jones
Victoria Hope Chan
6- Elsas & Annas of the West End
Minaii.K Barrowes
Tilly-Raye Bayer
Freya Scott
Sasha Watson-Lobo
Summer Betson
Asanda Abbie Masike
Kanon Narumi
Ellie Shenker
7- Elsas of Japan
鈴��� 麗衣/Rii Suzuki
桑原 愛佳/Manaka Kuwabara
佐々木 奏音/Kanon Sasaki
禾本 珠彩/Jui Nogimoto
服部 菜々美/Nanami Hattori
島田 沙季/Saki Shimada
8- Annas of Japan
山口 りりの/Ririno Yamaguchi
三上 さくら/Sakura Mikami
桑原 広佳/Hiroka Kuwabara
福田 果音/Kanon Fukuda
柴原 彩羽/Iroha Shibahara
Pictures: Frozen & Playbill websites, Japanese brochure
#frozen#frozen the musical#frozen australia#frozen london#frozen broadway#frozen Japan#frozen west end#frozen us tour#アナと雪の女王#Shiki Theatre company
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A book published in 2011 titled 'The Musical CATS was a Revolution' (or something thereabouts) by Hitoshi Umetsu, detailing how the opening of the musical in November 1983 changed the landscape of Japanese theatre forever.
The author follows along the history of certain directors within the Shiki Theatre Company, one being Keita Asari, the person behind developing and adapting CATS for the Japanese audience (and seen pictured above with a Jellylorum performer, likely from the late 1980s).
The book being completely written in Japanese has made so that I have not read any of it, past the blurbs on the front and back, but it is surely an interesting read for those who love the history of the show like me!
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牧貴美子 (Kimiko Maki) as Christine with 飯田洋輔 (Yosuke Iida) as the Phantom.
Picture: Shiki Theatre Company Twitter/Masaaki Noda/March edition of La Harpe magazine
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