OMG.

takarazuka_news reports that Natsume died of cancer.

OMGOMGOMG.

ETA: I'm so shocked. There had been news that she was ill, but I never knew that it was this serious and bad.

• Dancin' Crazy official website

• Dancin' Crazy DVD and a short clip at the TCA Pictures website

• Ooura Mizuki 1992 in New York.

• The same woman, in 2007 at age 51, in Dancin' ( Read more... )

...I just want to post that link here for those who haven't seen it or need a reminder of what a terrible tragedy it is that there is no official recording of the New York performance. (If there is a commercially available recording, I'll be happy to hear about it.)

Ooura Mizuki - Benny Rides Again (Youtube ( Read more... )

My checklist gets a new addition.

Guh. <3

(Foursome special issue from 1989.)

* I only now noticed that for the '99 Special, Mami was wearing Miki's suit AGAIN (like she did before, which left Tamo the choice between the tsuki and the hoshi suit, and she chose Noru's. Otherwise it may have looked to much like an exchange or mistake. :P Tom and Zunko properly wore their respective troupe colors. :D

* There is a lovely Aqua5 ( Read more... )

NINE The Musical (production blog ( Read more... )

Ooura-san as Fersen in the 1975 BeruBara shinko:


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I wanted to do that for a while: A collection of [almost] all my icons.

Took me a while to prepare and edit the code for this.
LJ actually has a size limit for posts. -____-

426 icons, 12.6 MB, some animated. (Completeness took precedence over prettiness.)

( Kya's Icons: Editor's Cut. )

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aJ8AxCKHYmw

I think I really like dancing Mai. And dancing Mai with dancing Mizuki. <3

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In more recent news:

HIROMI!Robespierre !!!

She gets to be a villain! <3 I hope she's happy. :D I'm certainly curious to see evil Hiromi ( Read more... )

... stalking Y!J is part of your daily routine.

Damn. (The poster. The price.)

I think I need a Natsume icon.

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