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.
Yoshitsune was once a hero, a genius strategist who defeated the Heike. But his older brother Yoritomo regarded him as dangerous and betrayed him, and now Yoshitsune is on the run. He flees aimlessly until one day, completely lost, he meets a young woman named Tsune who can turn into a fox. He says he will grant the woman one favor if, in exchange, she will lead him and his follower Benkei through the blinding snow to her hidden village.There Yoshitsune and Benkei take a much-needed rest, but when they try to leave, they become lost in the snow. No matter how many times they try, they always end up back at the village. The villagers laugh and say this is Tsune's magic — it gives the village eternal refuge from the world. Meanwhile, Yoritomo is searching for the entrance to the village in order to capture Yoshitsune. Will Yoshitsune be able to shake off both his pursuer Yoritomo, and the magic of Tsune, in order to return to the outside world where the cherry blossoms bloom...?
Yamate Kiichirō published many literary masterpieces, including "Yumesuke and the Gift of 1000 Ryō". An adaption of this masterpiece of a novel that depicts the activities of Yumesuke, a young and kind-hearted young man who has strong skills but hates fighting, will be staged in the Takarazuka Revue as an exciting period drama.
A musical depicting legendary gifted ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky through half of his lifetime. Romola is his wife and the love of his life; Diaghilev, the leader of the Russian ballet company "Ballets Russes", is antagonistic toward him. Set in the beginning of the 20th century in Paris — the era known as les années folles ("the roaring twenties") — a dramatic portrayal of the glory and ruin brought about by one man's overabundance of beauty and talent.
This "drama in verse" is based on the ancient Japanese myth of Susano-o and the many-headed serpent Yamata-no-Orochi.
Musical by the Takarazuka Revue. In modern day France, an exhibition is being held at the Palace of Versailles of the "Necklace of Marie Antoinette". The necklace had been used in a fraud case that marked a chapter in French history and later went missing. It has been reproduced using real diamonds. Fujiko has sneaked into Versailles, as has the gang of Lupin, Goemon, and Jigen - all with the intention of getting their hands on the necklace, which is valued at over 3 billion yen in today's money. But they bump into Inspector Zenigata. Lupin is the one who manages to foil Zenigata and grab the necklace. Yet the instant he lays hands on it, everyone is enveloped in a mysterious light. When they regain consciousness, they notice they have gone through a time slip to 1785, before the French Revolution when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were around.
Takarazuka Snow Troupe 2010 musical. The Second World War has entered its final stage. A family in war-torn Europe is suddenly and brutally attacked, with only a small boy left alive to tell the tale. Roget Jardin swears an oath that he will not rest until he has his revenge on the man that murdered his parents and sister in front of his eyes.
Women and wine. Always seeking pleasure. Captivating the hearts of countless maidens is the playboy, Don Juan. One night while enjoying the company of a woman as usual, Don Juan angers the Grand Master, the woman's father, which leads to a duel. Don Juan emerges victorious but the Grand Master's dying words are: "Someday love will punish you..." Before long, those ominous words manifest themselves as a curse and an apparition haunts Don Juan. After the incident, unheeding the curse, Don Juan continues to lust insatiably. But as it just so happened, by fate Don Juan meets Maria, the daughter of a sculptor who is creating a statue of the slain Grand Master. And the "curse of love" begins to afflict Don Juan...
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of its premiere, it will return to the stage of the Takarazuka Grand Theater in 2024 for the first time in ten years. This story, a foundational work of shojo manga that continues to be loved by many people across ages and borders, is set in France during the raging revolution, depicting the forbidden love of two couples. The Takarazuka Revue has staged various versions of The Rose of Versailles over the years. In this version that focuses on Fersen, we present the splendid world of The Rose of Versailles in a glorious celebration of its fiftieth anniversary.
Takarazuka Revue Snow Troupe 2007 production of the Viennese musical 'Elisabeth'
Takarazuka Snow Troupe 2019 performance, based on a novel of the same name ("Mibu Gishi Den") by Asada Jirō. It is a time of turmoil in the last days of Tokugawa shogunate... Yoshimura Kanichiro, a low-class warrior born the son of a foot soldier in the service of the Nambu clan, the lords of Morioka Domain in northern Japan, is a master of both the martial and scholarly ways.
Takarazuka Revue Snow Troupe's 2018 production of Maury Yeston's "Phantom".
One Night of Stars The setting is in the middle of the Edo Period during the reign of Yoshimune Tokugawa. Kinosuke Amano is the second son of the Lord of the Mikazuki clan, based in a lush green village nestled among mountains in Kyushu. He is a free-spirited youth, who slips out of the castle every night and is enchanted by looking at the stars. One summer, on the night of Tanabata (“the Evening of the Seventh”), Kinosuke encounters Sen, a girl from Hotaru Village, and Genta, her friend from childhood. Together, they assemble a turret for observing the stars. From that day onward, Kinosuke, Sen and Genta are friends, transcending social barriers, as they spend long hours every night searching out the stars La Esmeralda A Latin show that unfolds with a boundless emerald sea in the backdrop, portraying passionate love and many dreams.
The time: the 1920s. The place: New York City. The Lower East Side, on the southeast corner of Manhattan Island, is home to a great many Jewish immigrants who came to the United States, beginning in the late 19th century, from a Russia ravaged by political turmoil and an eastern Europe where they had experienced tremendous poverty. Despite the American dream that anyone can achieve success, for the Jewish immigrants in the Lower East Side this dream is difficult to make a reality. David “Noodles” Aaronson is born into this Jewish enclave, and from a very young age gets his hands dirty in the seedy underbelly of society. Along with his trusted companions Max, Cockeye, Patsy, and Dominic, Noodles lays down roots in the criminal underworld...
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.
Takarazuka Snow Troupe production based on the manga by Ikeda Riyoko
Bonnie & Clyde is a musical with music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Don Black and a book by Ivan Menchell. The musical centers on Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the ill-fated lovers and outlaws whose story has been infamous since they achieved folk hero status during the Great Depression. Wildhorn described the music as a "non-traditional score, combining rockabilly, blues and gospel music". The current Snow Troupe top combi Ayakaze Sakina and Yumeshiro Aya play the titular Bonnie & Clyde.
Takarazuka Revue Snow Troupe 1996 production of the Viennese musical 'Elisabeth'. This was the Revue Company's first 'Elisabeth' production.
The year is 1862, the twilight of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Takarazuka Snow Troupe 2015 production based on the life of Al Capone. The year is 1929, in a prison in New Jersey. Here, wearing a Divan watch too extravagant for the setting, sits one man: Al Capone. As everyone knows, he’s an American gangster. In a cell arranged especially for him, he gulps down law-prohibited bourbon, next to him sits the script for a new Hollywood screenplay that is in production. The title is “Scarface.” It is plain that that word represents Al. Before the writer of this script, Al begins to tell the lesser known “truth of Al Capone.”