Draft:List of works performed by Takarazuka Revue

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In House Works and Collaborations[edit]

Musicals have also been performed throughout the years based upon people and events in American, European, and Asian history. Among the more recognizable of these biographical adaptations are Last Party: S. Fitzgerald's Last Day, about F. Scott Fitzgerald; Valentino, about Rudolph Valentino; Dean, about James Dean; and Saint-Exupéry: The Pilot Who Became "The Little Prince", about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Finally, original stories round out Takarazuka fare, including musicals such as Boxman by the Cosmos Troupe, Too Short a Time to Fall in Love performed by the Star and Moon Troupes, and Silver Wolf by the Moon and Snow Troupes.

Takarazuka has occasionally worked with notable writers, composers, and choreographers to create original content for the revue. In 1993, Tommy Tune wrote, directed and choreographed the revue Broadway Boys to accompany the Moon Troupe's rendition of Grand Hotel. In 2006, Takarazuka worked with Frank Wildhorn, musical writer and composer of Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel, to create  Never Say Goodbye for the Cosmos Troupe. In 2019, Takarazuka worked with Dove Attia, music producer of 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille and La Légende du roi Arthur, to compose Casanova for the Flower Troupe.

Japanese Adaptations[edit]

Stories based in Japan and modeled on historical accounts or traditional tales are often referred to as nihonmono (日本物)or, less frequently, wamono (和物). Among the most common of these adapted to the Takarazuka stage is The Tale of Genji.

Popular manga series have often shaped Takarazuka, such as in the case of Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles. Other manga adaptations include The Window of Orpheus, also by Ikeda, Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack and Phoenix, and Yasuko Aoike's El Halcón.

Recent[timeframe?] examples of works adapted from Japanese novels or short stories include Moon Troupe's Osaka Samurai (大阪侍), based upon the short story by Ryōtarō Shiba and Flower Troupe's Black Lizard (黒蜥蜴, Kurotokage), based upon the Kogoro Akechi story by Edogawa Rampo.

In 2009, Takarazuka Revue performed two shows based on an adaptation of Capcom's video game series Ace Attorney.[1]They took the stage in January 2013 to represent the courtroom game again with the production titled Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney 3.[2] In June 2013, the Revue would debut at Tokyo's Tokyu Theatre Orb an adaptation of another Capcom video game, Sengoku Basara,[3] done by the Flower Troupe. This focused on character Yukimura Sanada, played by Tomu Ranju, the same actress who had taken the role of Phoenix Wright prior to becoming a top star.

In 2017, the Flower Troupe performed a stage adaptation of the shōjo (girls') manga series Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern,[4] and performed it again in 2020.[5] In 2019, the Flower Troupe also performed a stage adaptation of the shōjo manga series Boys Over Flowers.[6] In August 2022, the Cosmos Troupe performed a stage adaptation of the series High&Low in collaboration with LDH.[7]

Western Adaptations[edit]

Adaptations of other Asian Works[edit]

Among works adapted from other Asian sources is the Beijing opera The Hegemon-King Bids His Lady Farewell, detailing the romance between General Xiang Yu and his lover, Madam Yu.

  1. ^ 株式会社カプコン：ゲーム：逆転裁判シリーズ：タイトルラインナップ. Capcom.co.jp. Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Takarazuka Revue Will Present Third Show in the Ace Attorney Series". Capcom.co.jp. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Capcom and Takarazuka Revue Will Present the First Musical Based on the Sengoku BASARA Series - First production by the Takarazuka Flower Troupe based on a game is expected to further raise the value of Capcom content". Capcom.co.jp. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  4. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (14 April 2017). "Haikara-san ga Tōru Manga Gets Musical by Takarazuka Revue". Anime News Network. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  5. ^ ミュージカル「はいからさんが通る」再演決定、花組新トップ柚香＆華のお披露目公演. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 29 July 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  6. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (11 January 2019). "Boys Over Flowers Manga Gets Musical by Takarazuka Revue's Flower Troupe". Anime News Network. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  7. ^ HiGH&LOW×宝塚歌劇！SWORD誕生前夜のコブラの悲恋描く宙組公演. Music Natalie (in Japanese). 24 December 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  8. ^ 木原敏江「アンジェリク」新装版が「星降草子」と同時発売 [New edition of Toshie Kihara's Angélique released at the same time as Hoshifuru Sōshi]. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 16 May 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  9. ^ 木原 敏江 [Toshie Kihara]. Mangapedia (in Japanese). Heibonsha, Shogakukan, et al. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  10. ^ The Takarazuka Concise Madame Butterfly, tr. by K. and L. Selden, introduced by Arthur Groos in Japan Focus 14, 14, 7 (July 2016).
  11. ^ ミュージカル『アーサー王伝説』 [Musical: Legend of King Arthur]. Official Takarazuka Revue (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 April 2017.
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