Sasara Eru-chan is retiring in Shangri-la. To be honest I've just been waiting for it to happen; in every performance it's like they give her absolutely nothing to do. :( The only time I remember her having speaking lines was Junjou... Anyway, yeah, 最後まで頑張ってください、えるちゃん。
Also,
role names are out for Shangri-la. Becca
already posted about most of them, and I'm trying to be brief, so I'll just add... Tama and Rena's reduplicative names seem to mean "Joy / Happiness" and "Fragrance" respectively, and Dai-chan and Tara-chan have swallow kanji for their names. That's what I'm going on, unless any Chinese speakers on my friend list have anything different to say...?
News: Naoki Jun is out for
parts of Houken and all of Bolero until the end of the run, due to injury. For Hanagumi, Gubijin has a
character map.
People asked me about Yukigumi... At present I'll just say that most of Carnevale was good? The best part was Mizu and Mika's
beautiful pair dance to "E lucevan le stelle", sung in turns by Hamako, Kimu and Asaki Yumemi. I don't want to elaborate on the show until I can make a longer report.
Which I can't right now, because I've been overtaxing my wrists with typing and I don't have any more patience for my Speech Recognition program tonight.