15/08/2010
Right, so this is the first musical that I’ve been to in Japan that does not star Urai Kenji. I didn’t even think it was possible! But, there was a new cast, and I was incredibly excited for the new cast, and have already spent a good amount of time ranting on my LJ about it, so here is my official review.
Cast list:
Der Tod (Death): Shirota Yuu
Elisabeth: Asami Hikaru
Franz Joseph: Ishikawa Zen
Lucheni: Takahashi Masahiro
Rudolf: Mario Tashiro
Sophie: Kotobuki Hizuru
Doubles were for Elisabeth, Ludovika, Sophie and Elisabeth. Triples were Death and Rudolf. But this year, due to insane schedules by a lot of the actors (Urai Kenji, for one, he was in a stage show during the August run), they fixed certain schedules for different characters. The 3 Rudolfs had different months to go on, for example.
Lovely center seats, and basically the only two new characters I saw were effectively Shirota Yuu and Mario Tashiro.
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3/08/2009
In late 2008 I discovered the recast of the Japanese production of Tanz der Vampire. With Urai Kenji reprising his role as Alfred, I had to get tickets to watch. Despite the scare of H1N1, I found myself back at the Imperial Theater, where I watched Elisabeth in 2008.
Cast List
This year, the double cast was only for Sara and Alfred.
Count Krolock: Yamaguchi Yuichiro
Sarah: Chinen Rina
Professor Abronsius: Ishikawa Zen
Alfred: Urai Kenji
Herbert: Yoshino Keigo
Koukol: Komada Hajime
Three of the names, Yamaguchi, Ishikawa and Urai, might seem familiar, but that’s because I watched them as Death, Franz Joseph and Rudolf in Elisabeth in 2008.
Also, I had extremely good seats: 1st floor, aisle seat, first row of the final middle section. Tanz saw the actors using the audience area for various scenes, so I had a good look at most of them.
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30/12/2008
Slight cast change.
Cast List [December 18 Matinee]:
Death – Takeda Shinji
Elisabeth – Suzukaze Mayo
Franz Joseph – Ishikawa Zen
Lucheni – Takashima Masahiro
Rudolf – Irei Kanata
Sophie – Kotobuki Hizuru
Young Rudolf – ?
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30/12/2008
A very long overdue review post!
Cast List [December 17 Matinee]:
Death – Yamaguchi Yuuchirou
Elisabeth – Asami Hikaru
Franz Joseph – Ishikawa Zen
Lucheni – Takashima Masahiro
Rudolf – Urai Kenji
Sophie – Kotobuki Hizuru
Young Rudolf – Ota Rikito
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29/10/2008
Cast schedule from official website.
18th December 2008
Elisabeth: Suzukaze Mayo
Death: Takeda Shinji
Rudolf: Irei Kanata
I’m really looking forward to this pair Death/Rudolf pair despite what I’ve heard about Takeda’s singing and height. And I’ve heard him sing before. However, when I watched the Japanese preview, all their inability to sing (oh my god, Irei’s voice is so weak!) was completely thrown out of the window when I watched Takeda with Irei. It was ridonkulous!
It does help that Takeda Shinji is insanely gorgeous.
17th December 2008
Elisabeth: Asami Hikaru
Death: Yamaguchi Yuuchirou
Rudolf: Urai Kenji
I’m officially in love with Urai’s Rudolf. It does help that Rudolf is also my favorite character in the whole musical (oh yes I know, LACK OF STAGE TIME D:). He opened his mouth, and it was love. Although, he completely sucked in SeraMyu. Suck. Absolute suck.
Yamaguchi well, shit his voice is so fantastic *plays cast recording on loop*, and that’s all I have to say!
If they give me a repeat cast for any of these three characters, I will do some killing on that day. >.>
Rest of the cast is the same for both days, so I don’t have much to talk about. SO EXCITING!!