Soragumi's next Daigekijou show will be Trafalgar/Funky Sunshine.  Trafalgar is about Horatio Nelson.  From my Wikipedia research since the announcement went up (yay for history through Zuka? ^^;;;), it appears that he was a British naval officer who was famous for leading England to victory in a battle where he was killed.  He also had a ( Read more... )

First, list six Takarazuka plays you love, or ask someone to assign you six.

1. El Halcon
2. LUNA
3. A/L
4. The Second Life
5. Silver Rose Chronicle
6. Scout

(I personally decided to go with original Zuka works, and therefore omitted tsukigumi Ernest in Love, Me and My Girl, and Elisabeth)

( Please work, cut? )

( My answers underneath the cut )

The last time I saw El Halcon was way back in mid-November.  I was worried that during the time between I had blown my love of El Halcon out of proportion, or that maybe the performances wouldn’t be as good as they were in November.  I’m happy to say that I was wrong on both accounts.

I already wrote a revue of El Halcon back in November and I ( Read more... )

General thoughts:

After hearing some initial mediocre reviews of this show, I was very pleasantly surprised when I went last week.  The first time I saw El Halcon I wasn’t sure if it was a fluke.  I thought maybe only I liked it so much because I came in with low expectations.  The second time, however, confirmed it: I really liked this show.
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