Late announcement for the non-tumblr crowd: you can now buy Takarazuka tickets in English through the official site! http://kageki.hankyu.co.jp/english/ticket/index.htmlRead more... )

The 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 Paralympics in the nearby sports facilities means that the Nippon Seinenkan hotel in Tokyo is shutting down from the end of April 2015 until spring of 2017. They're dismantling the building and relocating it. This means that the last Takarazuka show at the current Nippon Seinenkan will be in February of 2015 ( Read more... )

Ranju Tomu had her Last Day in Takarazuka yesterday (the 17th). Here are a few excerpts from this Sankei article* They report about 6000 fans gathered to watch the sayonara parade ( Read more... )

They've just announced today that in May the cost for S and SS seats at the Grand Theater and Tokyo Theater are scheduled to rise.

Grand Theater
S: 8000 -> 8300
S (shinko): 4000 -> 4100
SS: 11,000 -> 12,000
SS (shinko): 5000 -> 5200

Tokyo TheaterS: 8500 -> 8800 ( Read more... )

Today Flower Troupe Top-Star Ranju Tomu has announced her retirement. Her last day will be on the closing night of "The Love of the Last Tycoon/Takarazuka Dazzling Dreams" on May 11th, 2014.

Everybody is talking about it, but no one has posted it in the community yet, I think?

It's been announced that the 100th anniversary Daiundoukai (Great Sports Day) will be held on October 7th, 2014! It will be held at Osaka-jo Hall (which, contrary to its name, is actually an arena). It has seating for 16,000 people ( Read more... )

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Rough translation.

Snow Troupe Top Star Mizu Natsuki Retirement Press Conference
[ sourceOn Friday, January 15th, Snow Troupe Top Star Mizu Natsuki held a press conference to announce that she would be retiring at the end of an as yet untitled performance which will run at the Grand Theater from June 6th to July 26th and the Tokyo Takarazuka ( Read more... )

Here's an article from today's Japan Times on Takarazuka.

An interesting excerpt about OG's in politics:

A very few have entered politics, including Chikage Ogi, former president of the Upper House who also served as transport minister. Now retired from politics, she was the top Takarazuka star playing a girl's part in the 1950s.

Miyuki Hatoyama, ( Read more... )

As some of you already know, many announcements went up on the official site recently concerning next year's line-up. I believe this has already been transferred to the wiki in fullThere was also one specific announcement revealing what some of us Soragumi fans had already predicted -- that next February there will be a Bow Hall show running at the ( Read more... )