Marlene Takako Dietrich & the Return of the Hana
Better late than never...
As you have no doubt heard by now, Taka-chan is going to be playing Marlene Dietrich in a musical entitled: ディートリッヒ ～生きた 愛した 永遠（とわ）に～ (roughly, The Life and Loves of Marlene Dietrich). Yay for her year-long hiatus being over!
The big surprise, however, is that O-Hana is making her stage comeback as Edith Piaf in the same musical!! (and about blinking time too!) Whee!
Here is the official website for the show, which has a couple of pictures up, the main one being a close-up of the chirashi (which I don't have yet), a page about the story, the cast etc.
The press conference was on 14th Jan and there are quite a few articles with photos floating around the net, of which I am posting a selection below:
Official Page
Terminal
Ticket Pia
ChoE, 14th Jan
ChoE, 16th Jan
Engeki Life
EFIL magazine's blog has a rather good set of large pictures, as a teaser for a feature on Taka-chan announced for the 1st April issue. So keep an eye out for that!
Enough to keep you going for now! I suppose it's time for me do some research on Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf, though. The one was German, tall, blonde and sang Lili Marleen, and the other was French, diminutive, dark and sang La Vie en Rose. Neither was Japanese, which is going to make for some suspension of disbelief (though why I am worrying about this now, after all these years, is beyond me...)
To be honest, this fills me with equal parts of glee and terror. But at least it's a proper musical! On stage! With O-Hana! Yay! :D
As you have no doubt heard by now, Taka-chan is going to be playing Marlene Dietrich in a musical entitled: ディートリッヒ ～生きた 愛した 永遠（とわ）に～ (roughly, The Life and Loves of Marlene Dietrich). Yay for her year-long hiatus being over!
The big surprise, however, is that O-Hana is making her stage comeback as Edith Piaf in the same musical!! (and about blinking time too!) Whee!
Here is the official website for the show, which has a couple of pictures up, the main one being a close-up of the chirashi (which I don't have yet), a page about the story, the cast etc.
The press conference was on 14th Jan and there are quite a few articles with photos floating around the net, of which I am posting a selection below:
Official Page
Terminal
Ticket Pia
ChoE, 14th Jan
ChoE, 16th Jan
Engeki Life
EFIL magazine's blog has a rather good set of large pictures, as a teaser for a feature on Taka-chan announced for the 1st April issue. So keep an eye out for that!
Enough to keep you going for now! I suppose it's time for me do some research on Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf, though. The one was German, tall, blonde and sang Lili Marleen, and the other was French, diminutive, dark and sang La Vie en Rose. Neither was Japanese, which is going to make for some suspension of disbelief (though why I am worrying about this now, after all these years, is beyond me...)
To be honest, this fills me with equal parts of glee and terror. But at least it's a proper musical! On stage! With O-Hana! Yay! :D