The critically acclaimed all-woman Japanese acting revue Takarazuka brings Rurouni Kenshin to life, creating a new twist on a globally loved story.
The Takarazuka Revue’s signature Show Groove features a mesmerizing and rousing collection of popular standards. Opening with a prologue highlighting spirited soul music, Greatest Hits! features scenes with popular Christmas songs and other masterpieces that enjoyed great popularity in their day yet continue to tug at our heartstrings. The greatest of the Snow Troupe performers, led by the hot and sexy yet composed Seina Sagiri, combine glimmering harmonies with glamorous dance.
Jack Wilkins is a news writer who prefers to go by his pen name, Ernest Milton. He receives a mysterious invitation to the Cheshire Cat Hotel and takes a week off in order to go check it out. The hotel is a lively if somewhat strange place with curious staff members, and at first Ernest is wary about staying. The hotel manager eventually persuades him, though, offering Ernest free services if he does a favor for another patron. They want him to help break up the engagement of a certain couple, Mary and Charles.
In 1932, the shadow of war threatens, but Japan is still at peace. A sponsor of the Imperial Symphony, Lord Kuretake Kimiya, is deathly ill. He calls to his bedside Sanjou Kaoru, who is both the fiancé of his daughter Umeko and an up-and-coming conductor. Lord Kuretake has a very serious request: Many years ago, he had a daughter with a Russian woman and he begs Sanjou to search for her in Shanghai. Because her mother, Anastasia, an opera singer, was a close friend of the princess, when the revolution came, she vanished with the imperial family. Since then, Kuretake has married and had a family, and he wants his daughter Natasha to be raised in his home.
The story of the transformational Maximilien Robespierre is of a man fueled by a burning passion for revolutionary ideals that eventually engulfed him in their flames.
Paris, 1789. A young revolutionary peasant and a maid of Queen Marie-Antoinette fall in love at the brink of the French Revolution.
Takarazuka Snow Troupe 2023 performance.
Takarazuka Cosmos Troupe 2016 performance. Valencian Passion: A larger-than-life musical about revenge and love set in Spain, at the beginning of the 19th century. HOT EYES!!: A glamorous, passionate show that pairs elegance and dynamism, creating various images inspired by the sparkle and passion of the eyes of Top Star Asaka Manato and the actresses of Cosmos Troupe.
Takarazuka Cosmos Troupe 2021 performance. Hotel Svizra House is located in the Swiss resort town of St. Moritz. In the midst of World War II, the threat of Nazi Germany is spreading throughout Europe. People of many different nationalities, occupations, and socioeconomic strata pass through the strategic intersection of Switzerland, a neutral country. The wealthy, fleeing the horrors of war, gather at the hotel — and today another new guest has arrived.
Star Troupe's special concert at Budokan.
Takarazuka Cosmos Troupe 2023 production based on the novel by Ian Flemming. It’s 1968 and the world is in the grip of the Cold War centered on the United States and the Soviet Union. In Paris, anti-establishment protests known as “May 1968” break out, mainly among students and workers. After they are suppressed, the radicals merge into an underground organization that calls itself “The Red Army League.” At MI6, the pinnacle of British Secret Intelligence Service, secret agent James Bond, code name “007,” receives an order to neutralize a Soviet spy known as Le Chiffre. Bond’s mission is to use his gambling skills to beat him and cut off his source of funds, and then to take him alive and force him to divulge any information he possesses.
Takarazuka Cosmos Troupe 2017 production based on the novel of the same name by Asada Jirou, as well as the 2015 film. The Chateau de la Reine is a luxury hotel tucked into a corner of the Place des Vosges. Two businesses team up to come up with an audacious and unprecedented plan to double-book tours. All sorts of chaos erupts as episodes involving a former Châtelain and King Louis unfold. When all is said and done, where will these people, so confused about love and life, end up? Viva! Festa! It's a festa where people escape from their everyday lives to celebrate all the things that make life worth living: prayer, appreciation, hope and more! The theme of this Super Revue is the festa of the world, including Rio's Carnival, Walpurgis Night from North and Central Europe, the Running of the Bulls in Spain, and the Yosakoi Soran Festival of Japan.
Takarazuka Snow Troupe 1992-93 production based on The 47 Ronin.
Sometime in the future, on Mercury (Polunka). A man whose past has been erased. A woman searching for her memories. It is said that if you travel to the centre of a crater known as SAPA your dreams will come true. Pilgrims chasing their dreams or pursued by their crimes journey to the crater, along with man and a woman searching for the past... Fleeing from their pursuers they wander through the 2112 hour long night, singing the forbidden songs of Earth.
Takarazuka Revue Star Troupe 2023 production of Gérard Presgurvic's "Romeo & Juliette"
Count Maximilian of Moor has two very different sons, Karl and Franz. Karl is the elder son, and the count's favourite. In comparison, Franz is described as ugly, and he was neglected during his childhood. As the younger son, he has no claim of inheritance from his father. Franz spends his time in the play scheming to remove Karl as well as the count.
In the realm of the dead, Luigi Lucheni is on trial for the assassination of Empress Elisabeth. The disembodied voice of the judge rings out, demanding to know why Lucheni killed her. Lucheni responds, in his own defense, that he was doing her a favor as Elisabeth and Death were lovers. He calls upon the ghosts of Elisabeth's family and friends to corroborate this statement. Death appears in their midst, a pale, androgynous, eternally youthful man who admits that he was in love with Elisabeth.
During the 18th century, at the height of Rococo culture, Giacomo Casanova charmed the ladies and enjoyed his earthly affairs as he traveled across Europe. Set in Venice, the city of water against the Adriatic Sea, a new story of adventure unfolds for Casanova, who dreamed of freedom and longed for true love.
Takarazuka Revue Star Troupe 2017 production based on Baroness Orczy's novel 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'
2014 Takarazuka Revue Star Troupe production. This is the story of a hero, a man who rescued France from the chaos of revolution. His name was Napoléon Bonaparte. Having climbed to unparalleled heights after conquering Europe and becoming the first Emperor in the history of France, what was this hero seeking? Whom did he love? The truth behind this man who led such a turbulent life is about to unfold.