First off, Abe's now switched completely from his livedoor blog, omohidediary, to a new ameblo blog, which he's calling "Abe Koubou." Here's the syndicated feed for anyone wishing to have his updates show up on your friends page:

abe_koubou

In other news, Abe's announced a new project which I believe is called "Applause." The official site is here. The ( Read more... )

Musical "Shine" performance decision

2007/07/18
omohidediary at 2:34 AM

Hot Generation 15-performance original musical "Shine"

Organization: Hot Generation (ホットジェネレーションDirection: Torii Meiko ( Read more... )

A few Abe updates:

On Wednesday of this week, Abe had a rare day off, which he used to take a relaxing walk and snap photos of the sakura, some of which are blooming early in Tokyo this year due to the unusually high temps. (Though it's possible that the ones Abe took pictures of were plum blossoms, which look very similar to sakura and bloom ( Read more... )

From today, Ajisai Kabuki ☆2007/02/26 ( Read more... )

I have a bit more info on Abe's upcoming play, "Ganryuujima Gang," including what role he's going to be playing, some details as to the premise, high quality images of the play poster, and various other bits of general information.

( Modern-day samurai...?? )

Abe updated again today, this time with two pieces of performance news and one actual blog entry. The entry is giving me translation problems (though I can tell you that he had his first day of rehearsal for something, that it left him exhausted, and that he's going to be trying his best in the future :P), but here are details (slightly gistified ( Read more... )

The kind Botamochi-san, who is a Japanese Abe fan I've corresponded with a few times, wrote up a handy summary post in her blog of all the performance news Abe announced in his recent marathon posting. Here's a quick translation:

( Upcoming Performances )

Today, Abe posted five blog entries with performance news! O__O I'm still working through them, but here's one tidbit of news I can report on:

Abe will be appearing in the fifth installment of the Amattare Suekko series on January 6th (Saturday) and 7th (Sunday), 2007. Full title of this installment is: Amattare Suekko-tachi no Shougatsu B・O・K・ ( Read more... )