Toho Elisabeth: Omigod you guys!

[winter]

Toho Elisabeth cast is up for the August-October 2010 run.

I saw it and kind of fell over.

First of all, I hereby crow about the Asako!Elisabeth rumour being confirmed. She must be working hard on recovering her soprano, but this is a glorious normal-theatre debut, a great role to start with, and she's going to own the stage.

Komu got Elisabeth again ♥ I just hope that this time, enterprising fans with cameras will do better ;)

Yuichiro Yamaguchi is Death again, because you'll have to hit him over the head with a shovel to get him off the stage. Since his voice is pure honeyed velvet, that is a YAY in my book.

We get two new Deaths, too. Shirota Yuu (since he has TeniMyu and SeraMyu history... *eyes TeniMyu and SeraMyu fans* any comments on how he'll handle a forceful rockstar demon?) and Ishimaru Kanji, an ex-Raoul I haven't seen.

And the real Omigod-You-Guys is for Sophie. Mori Keaki. Who's had like one role since her retirement as Yukigumi topstar (and Andre to Maki's Oscar) in 1993. Kotobuki Hizuru's the other Sophie, as usual, but Mori!

FYI, the Rudolf-of-the-month for October is Urai Kenji, Lucheni is Takashima Masahiro (aka Mr Sylvia Grab), and Franz Joseph is... Ishikawa Zen. Dear heavens, this is going to be good.

Now, where was my airplane ticket search engine?

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Comments

[winter]

Duly noted, in that case I believe I shall be making a beeline for Yamaguchi and Ishimaru. I know Yamaguchi's beyond stellar (and yes, that's on Broadway levels) and Ishimaru's a lovely Raoul on the 1992 recording.

Mind you, the Toho production's got a good track record of getting live-action actors up to snuff. I think Death was one of Masaaki Uchino's first musical roles, and yet he was very nice at it in a rockstar way.

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Well I think Shirota is considered a "musical" actor because he was in anime musicals or some such but his voice is just not that good. It's better than some of the people I've seen in Tenimyus but that is not saying much. I know a lot of people think those myus are like the greatest things ever but they're really not. The main reason to see them is to watch attractive young Japanese guys dancing and acting incredibly slashy. About the only two actors I would pay to hear sing from a Tenimyu are Kimeru and Kenn (and well maybe Miyano, but more because Miyano is now a big name seiyuu than his actual abilities.) Kimeru has frightening frightening teeth.

I also don't think he's ever been good at being very manly. >>;; Tezuka and his Tezuka certainly weren't and from what I saw of Rookies and the promo for that new Negotiator movie he's not terribly manly in either of those. But again he does have a decent presence, though I swear in most of the recent things he has been in, all I can think is "There is a white guy in this!" which is terribly distracting.