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Spies Are Forever West End Concert rehearsals in full swing!

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Death Note the Musical Update 9/1/24

No album release? Fine, I'll do it myself. /ref

Some of you may remember there was an album listening party at NYCC last year where they played some of the finished tracks for the new upcoming cast album! Unfortunately my phone was almost dead so I didn't record the whole panel, and even more unfortunately the album has been delayed almost an entire year. I'm still hopeful we'll get it soon now that the Your Lie in April musical has closed its doors, but in the meantime. . .

Behold! The four official tracks I did manage to record (well, more like three and a half - sort of - contains The Game Begins, Where is the Justice, part of Kira, and the full backing track of Hurricane):

I'm also releasing/compiling other footage from the day, which includes live performances of Kira (the whole thing this time), Playing His Game, and The Way Things Are; a bonus track of When Love Comes sung by Ashley Loren, who is a Broadway actor and was not involved in the West End concert; and some promotional footage.

The "album tracks" folder is included in the NYCC 2023 folder, I just wanted to link it separately for ease of access. Enjoy!

My only other news is that Dean John-Wilson recently posted on Instagram a picture of himself playing L with the caption "12 month of missing this guy… Drop a 💚 below for the return of L." (Thank you allies-with-benefits for sharing this with me.)

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Me too, DJW. Me too.

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Me, explaining to my friend how it’s funny that Dean John Wilson was the original West End L and is now playing a character named Watari because most versions of Death Note feature a character named Watari who is probably the only person L truly trusts and loves:

My friend, who is just here because she likes Frank Wildhorn:

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They did THAT! 🍎💀📓

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did more Death Note Musical London fanart of Dean John Wilson and Joaquin Pedro Valdes 🍎📓 insanely stoked for the cast recording, you have no idea 🕴️

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I'm happy, they have chemistry 💖

Thank you universe for listening to me (I don't care if it's not the whole song I got my Lawlight snack).

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Siam what I am

THE KING AND I Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Wednesday 1st March 2023 There is no king on the poster, only the I, selling the show on its female lead, Call The Midwife’s Helen George.  Unfortunately, for this press night performance, Ms George is indisposed (perhaps a midwife crisis) and so there are more than a few disgruntled childbirth fans in the auditorium tonight.  To my mind, the show…

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eat

read fanfic

cry

sleep

rinse & repeat

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Some of my FAV Playboy artists:

Alberto Vargas, Doug Sneyd, Jack Cole, Erich Sokol, John Dempsey, Eldon Dedini, Gahan Wilson, and Dean Yeagle

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" ... Leverage creator John Rogers himself is coming on board as Season 3’s new showrunner*."

*Serving as EPs alongside Rogers and Devlin are Redemption co-creator Chris Downey, Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan-Wilson. (TV Line)

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I LOVE THEM WITH MY WHOLE HEART

COME BACK TO ME WEST END SPIES CAST

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Death Note the musical UK

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Playbill Presents: Death Note: The Musical Panel at NYCC2023

As described on the NYCC site:

"Following acclaimed productions in Japan and Korea and after two star-studded sold-out concert engagements in London, DEATH NOTE: The Musical is coming to New York Comic Con. Playbill will present a panel about the show featuring stars from the recent London concert (cast to be announced) and will offer a sneak peek into the developing production. "Based on the best-selling Japanese manga series (60 million copies worldwide) of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata / Shueisha, this groundbreaking musical (Winner Best Musical, Korea Musical Awards) has a score by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, 4 years on Broadway, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Bonnie & Clyde) with lyrics by Jack Murphy, book by Ivan Menchell, and orchestrations and arrangements by Jason Howland."

And on Playbill.com:

"October 14's programming kicks off with a Death Note: The Musical panel at 10:30 AM. Set to appear are cast members Adam Pascal, Joaquin Pedro Valdes, and Dean John-Wilson; producers Yuzo Kajiyama and Jamie Chapman Dixon; and book writer Ivan Menchell, with producer Haley Swindal hosting."

For context, this was the earliest panel slot on the third day of a four-day con. Not quite prime territory (especially with the listening party as the last slot of the same day) but they still secured a really good turnout with a lot of cosplayers. Need I remind everyone, the manga is twenty years old, and the anime isn't much younger. So it's really a sign of DN's staying power and the love that people have for this show that congoers showed up in droves to check out this preview.

Unfortunately nothing of consequence was announced at this panel or at the listening party. I was hoping we'd get confirmation of the West End run or even a Broadway concert performance, but no such luck. I was also looking forward to the audience Q&A but tbh all the information we received was so fascinating that I'm glad Haley let the panelists talk instead of trying to keep time for that.

[ID: Adam Pascal, Joaquin Pedro Valdes, Dean John Wilson, Jamie Chapman Dizon, Ivan Menchell, a translator, and Yuzo Kajiyama sitting on stage at NYCC while Haley Swindal stands at a podium.]

After thanking sponsors and bringing everyone on stage, Haley opened by asking each guest a question, starting with Yuzo, the producer of the original Japanese production.

[everything here not in quotation marks is paraphrased]

Haley: Yuzo, what about Death Note inspired you to turn it into a musical, and what were the steps you took to get there?

Yuzo's translator: When he started at Horipro in 2006, at that time all the musicals were imported. He felt the need to produce original musical shows from within Japan. And that was when he had his eyes on Death Note. Horipro already had a relationship with Shueisha, the rightsholders, from the DN movie.

He had two things he felt were important in making this:

The content had to be something that was internationally popular.

Light Yagami’s actor would always get recognized when he went abroad.

It needed to have some kind of extraordinary element to fit with the spontaneous singing.

The concept of the comic, a person who has their name written and dies and the presence of the shinigami, he felt was a perfect fit for the musical.

He also knew that since Shonen Jump, the magazine Death Note originally appeared in, is sold for 2 dollars, the show therefore needs to be a low price.

So that’s when he went to Shueisha. He remembers the first words that they said were “Death Note is gonna be a musical show?" At that time there was only one manga-adaptation musical: The Prince of Tennis. He convinced the people at Shueisha that this would be a first-class show.

Yuzo knew the most important part of the production was the music. At the time Horipro was involved with the Japanese production of Jeykll & Hyde, which also had themes of justice. Yuzo approached Frank Wildhorn about DNtM, but Wildhorn turned it down because "it had to have a love story element, which he felt was the most important aspect" of a musical. Yuzo was impressed by this.

Wildhorn went back to the US and spoke to his son who was a big fan of Death Note, and his son told him he needed to take the job. [Everyone cheered.]

(continuing in reblogs)

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Creepy Tsubaki, Creepy Sayu, Creepy Watari, and Creepy L all done for Rachel Clare Chan and Dean John Wilson this weekend!

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HAPPY PRIDE BITCHES 🔥🔥🔥