#saou kurama

[soggywarmpockets]

Ma'am, you CANNOT do this to me. I'm GAY.

[berserkerbarbie]

1789: The Lovers of the Bastille - 2015 by Moon Troupe rehearsal vs show

[zukadiary]

Hi! I hope you're well! I wanted to ask something I was curious about. I recently saw a DVD of Me and My Girl with Yuzuka Rei as Jacqueline. I’m impressed by her versatility, I usually know her for otokoyaku roles. Could you explain how casting decisions are made when otokoyaku are given female roles or vice versa? Are there specific criteria for this? Also, any other notable performances of this kind you'd recommend? Thank you so much for making this blog btw! I've learned so much from it. ^_^

Hi! I don't think there are any hard and fast rules about this, but there are definitely patterns.

First off, there are certain female roles in big-name, frequently restaged shows that are either always or usually played by otokoyaku. Off the top of my head, some include:

Jacqueline in MeMy, as you mentioned

Scarlett in Gone with the Wind

Anita in West Side Story

Rafaela in Grand Hotel

Then sometimes they are just one-off casting decisions (Towaki Sea in Liszt, Ayanagi Shou in Hikarifuru Michi, etc). Regardless of the situation, it's usually for one or a combination of these reasons:

It's a "spunky," or more mature, or canonically cross-dressing role, that would break the mold of the musumeyaku-otokoyaku relationship

It's an incredibly high profile role, but the troupe has no top musumeyaku—e.g. Sena Jun as Elisabeth in '05, Nagina Ruumi in '09—and a secondary musumeyaku would not be nearly as much of a draw to the audience as a higher ranked otokoyaku

Or it's a really high profile role, and otokoyaku just bring in more money than musumeyaku, so a heavy supporting female role goes to an otokoyaku rather than a secondary musumeyaku

Fan service!

Here are some of my recommendations:

Grand Hotel - lots good about it, but cw for egregious racial makeup in supporting characters

Soragumi's Anastasia, for both Kazuki Sora and Kotobuki Tsukasa in female roles

All for One, which is quite fun, and features Saou Kurama as the Duchess of Montpensier

Ok this is pretty Tamaki Ryou heavy for some reason, but Legend of King Arthur for Miya Rurika's Morgane

Shall we Dance, one of my all time favorite shows, featuring Sagiri Seina as the female lead

A Song for Kingdoms, the 2003 Hoshigumi version, featuring Aran Kei as Aida (also cw for some racial makeup)

There's a lot of other great stuff too!

EDIT: HOW COULD I FORGET ADELAIDE??? Highly recommend thanks for the comment!

[leenaevilin]

[Announcement] 演劇の毛利さん The Entertainment Theater Vol.0 音楽劇「星の飛行士」(engeki no mouri-san the entertainment theater vol.0 ongakugeki hoshi no hikoushi)

you will be able to watch it @ Streaming+ & PIA LIVE STREAM & ローチケ LIVE STREAMING

◎ 音楽劇「星の飛行士」(ongakugeki hoshi no hikoushi)

price: ￥3.500 (each) [notice: NO VPN needed]

[May 1st, 2021 (12:00) ~ May 9th, 2021 (23:59)] [May 14th, 2021 (12:00) ~ May 23rd, 2021 (23:59)]

♪ A-Version (Saou Kuruma) [January 17th, 2021 ~ 17:00]  ♪ B-Version (Takatsuki Sara) [January 17th, 2021 ~ 13:00]

◎ リーディングシアター「星の王子さま」 (reading theater hoshi no oujisama)

price: ￥3.000 (each) [notice: NO VPN needed]

[May 1st, 2021 (12:00) ~ May 9th, 2021 (23:59)] [May 14th, 2021 (12:00) ~ May 23rd, 2021 (23:59)]

♪ Umezawa Minami & Paku Romi [January 9th, 2021 ~ 13:00] ♪ Umezawa Minami & Shimono Hiro [January 9th, 2021 ~ 20:00] ♪ Komiya Arisa & Someya Toshiyuki [January 10th, 2021 ~ 17:00] ♪ Paku Romi & Kubota Yuuki [January 12th, 2021 ~ 17:00] ♪ Itou Riria & Takatsuki Sara [January 15th, 2021 ~ 15:00] ♪ Yasui Kentarou & Sakurai Keito [January 16th, 2021 ~ 17:00] ♪ Satou Ryuuji & Suzuki Shougo [January 27th, 2021 ~ 19:00] ♪ Makishima Hikaru & Ikeda Junya [January 30th, 2021 ~ 12:00]

◎ リーディングシアター「夜間飛行」 (reading theater yakan no hikoushi)

price: ￥3.000 (each) [notice: NO VPN needed]

[May 1st, 2021 (12:00) ~ May 9th, 2021 (23:59)] [May 14th, 2021 (12:00) ~ May 23rd, 2021 (23:59)]

♪ Shimono Hiro& Paku Romi [January 9th, 2021 ~ 17:00] ♪ Someya Toshiyuki & Kitamura Ryou [January 10th, 2021 ~ 20:00] ♪ Paku Romi & Suzuki Shougo [January 12th, 2021 ~ 20:00] ♪ Okada Tatsuya & Sakurai Keito [January 14th, 2021 ~ 15:00] ♪ Kubota Yuuki& Yasui Kentarou [January 16th, 2021 ~ 20:00] ♪ Rachi Shinji & Satou Ryuuji [January 27th, 2021 ~ 16:00] ♪ Okada Tatsuya & Makishima Hikaru [January 30th, 2021 ~ 15:00]

[kittychan-sings-enka]

Camille Desmoulins (b. March 2, 1760)

[eternalyjun]

韓国発のシチュエーションコメディ「花の秘密」に沙央くらま、岩崎う大ら

[chevalierene]

Lupin III SK Stream!!! (Also Sky Fairies with Koma and Chigi)

So @captured-moon informed me that she had never seen the Lupin III shinjinkouen so I am going to change that. Starring Towaki Sea (Hitoko) and Seina Nozomi (Riichan) it is their first SK lead performance. 

After crying over Robespierre raku we need all the happiness we can get. However, I will also show some small clips of Saou Kurama (Koma) and Sagiri Seina (Chigi) when they were Sky Fairies together as well.

The stream will start on Saturday, Dec 16th at 8AM EST (sorry West Coasters, I know it’s super early). Please check out the Trello post for timezone conversion. I’ll stream it on Rabb.it and post the link about 20-30 mins before the start. It will be a Locked room so please message me on Rabb.it beforehand.

[fallinginlovezuka]

[ilovetkrzuka]

Taidansha 

Saou Kurama 沙央くらま　

2018 2/11 

[mintfrosting]

AM I RIGHT LADIES

[unrivaledsun]

1789 revolutionary aesthetic™

baddies

girl gang

[andromache-hectoris]

And it was just anounced that Snow Troupe is going to do another Wildhorn musical, Bonnie&Clyde!😍

“A Passage Through the Light” subs

Download here: wtheckzukasubs.tumblr.com/shows (Scroll down to find it under snowskypx’s works)

This show wasn’t translated by us but offered to be here by @snowskypx who went through the trouble to translate, sub and edit the files so you guys can have easier access.

This was Daimon’s top debut in the Grand Theater (as was Kiichan’s), and the songs were done by Takako’s husbandFrank Wildhorn, the same guy behind Scarlet Pimpernel and Never Say Goodbye. The cast is great but a special mention to Shou, playing a super pretty onnayaku (though I’m still not very sure of the point of this character, she’s beautiful).

This was also the taidan piece for Saou Kurama.

snowskypx asked me to note how the Le Cinq script helped with the patching up and final polishing of the subs.

[fyeahfrenchmusicals]

1789 Les amants de la Bastille | George Danton, Solène Mazurier, Maximilien Robespierre

[leenaevilin]

[Announcement] 演劇の毛利さん The Entertainment Theater Vol.0 音楽劇「星の飛行士」(engeki no mouri-san the entertainment theater vol.0 ongakugeki hoshi no hikoushi)

you will be able to watch it @ Streaming+ & PIA LIVE STREAM & ローチケ LIVE STREAMING

◎ 音楽劇「星の飛行士」(ongakugeki hoshi no hikoushi)

price: ￥4.400 (each) [notice: NO VPN needed]

♪ A-Version (Saou Kuruma) [January 29th, 2021 ~ 19:00] Streaming+ & PIA LIVE STREAM ♪ B-Version (Takatsuki Sara) [January 30th, 2021 ~ 19:00] Streaming+ & PIA LIVE STREAM ♪ Senshuuraku A-Version (Saou Kuruma) [January 31st, 2021 ~ 13:00] Streaming+ ♪ Senshuuraku B-Version (Takatsuki Sara) [January 31st, 2021 ~ 17:00] Streaming+

◎リーディングシアター「星の王子さま」 (reading theater hoshi no oujisama)

price: ￥3.500 (each) [notice: NO VPN needed]

♪ Satou Ryuuji & Suzuki Shougo [January 27th, 2021 ~ 19:00] Streaming+ & ローチケ LIVE STREAMING ♪ Makishima Hikaru & Ikeda Junya [January 30th, 2021 ~ 12:00] Streaming+ & PIA LIVE STREAM

◎ リーディングシアター「夜間飛行」 (reading theater yakan no hikoushi)

price: ￥3.500 (each) [notice: NO VPN needed]

♪ Rachi Shinji & Satou Ryuuji [January 27th, 2021 ~ 16:00] Streaming+ & ローチケ LIVE STREAMING ♪ Okada Tatsuya & Makishima Hikaru [January 30th, 2021 ~ 15:00] Streaming+ & PIA LIVE STREAM

[kittychan-sings-enka]

[eternalyjun]